The posting
Lead some of our largest facilities projects while growing the next generation of project leaders.
As the Project Delivery Group Manager with our Facilities Engineering team, you will provide leadership, oversight, and accountability for project management across the division's portfolio. You will lead and develop senior project managers, establish consistent expectations for project planning and execution, and help teams deliver work with discipline across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and communication.
You will stay close to project delivery by reviewing project performance, supporting teams through complex issues, and serving as Project Manager on some of TKDA's largest and most complex Facilities Engineering assignments. You will also review and approve Facilities Engineering proposals for select projects within the division, helping confirm that scope, fee, schedule, staffing, assumptions, and risks are clearly understood before commitments are made.
Beyond individual projects, you will help strengthen TKDA's project management and delivery capability. You will coach and mentor project managers, advance consistent project delivery practices and tools, reinforce QA/QC expectations, and use project reviews and lessons learned to improve performance across the division. You will also develop and implement strategies to improve project delivery practices, systems, and processes, aligning project delivery goals with organizational goals and long-term priorities.
This is an opportunity for an experienced project delivery leader who enjoys strategic thinking, developing people, improving processes, and helping multidisciplinary teams deliver successful project outcomes.
What You Will Do
- Provide direct supervision, coaching, performance feedback, and professional development support to senior project managers within Facilities Engineering.
- Establish clear expectations for project manager performance, accountability, communication, documentation, and adherence to division and company procedures.
- Advance project management skills through practical guidance, mentoring, shared tools, lessons learned, and consistent delivery practices.
- Support workload planning, staffing coordination, recruiting, onboarding, retention, and development of project management talent.
- Create opportunities for project managers to broaden their capabilities, strengthen judgment, and prepare for increasingly complex assignments and leadership responsibilities.
- Grow the Project Delivery team by recruiting and retaining project management talent.
- Oversee project management performance across Facilities Engineering managed projects, with attention to scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, communication, and financial results.
- Lead regular project reviews, identify emerging concerns, escalate material issues when needed, and support timely recovery or mitigation plans.
- Serve as Project Manager on TKDA’s largest and most complex Facilities Engineering projects.
- Help project teams organize effective project management plans, controls, schedules, meeting cadences, decision logs, and issue-escalation practices.
- Partner with division, market, group, operations, and technical leaders to align project delivery priorities with client commitments and business objectives.
- Support teams in addressing delivery challenges, claims, losses, write-offs, and other significant project risks.
- Review and approve select Facilities Engineering proposals.
- Confirm proposals clearly define scope, deliverables, fee, assumptions, exclusions, schedule, staffing, quality requirements, and risk considerations.
- Evaluate whether proposed commitments are achievable and aligned with available resources, client expectations, contracting requirements, and division standards.
- Guide project managers on proposal strategy, scope development, fee development, contracting considerations, and risk mitigation.
- Contribute project delivery insight to larger pursuits, negotiations, and go/no-go or project-start discussions as needed.
- Reinforce applicable QA/QC requirements and confirm that project teams identify qualified reviewers, appropriate review milestones, and documentation expectations.
- Monitor compliance with project management procedures, project controls, quality checkpoints, and deliverable review practices.
- Develop, implement, and improve standard project delivery tools, templates, procedures, and best practices.
- Use project reviews, lessons learned, recurring issues, and performance trends to identify and implement practical improvements.
- Promote consistent use of project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, and collaboration tools across the division.
- Monitor project financial performance, including revenue, profit, budget, utilization of project resources, and write-offs.
- Help project managers align work effort with agreed-upon scope, budget, schedule, and client expectations.
- Support workload balancing and resource coordination among project managers and multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Identify operational or delivery trends that require leadership attention and recommend actions that improve quality, predictability, responsiveness, and profitability.
- Establish expectations for timely, clear, and professional communication with clients, project teams, leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Support project managers in setting and managing client expectations and communicating changes in scope, fee, schedule, quality, or risk.
- Promote effective meeting practices, action and decision tracking, project documentation, and issue escalation.
- Build trust across multidisciplinary teams by creating clarity, encouraging accountability, and helping resolve competing priorities.
- Support Market Managers with efforts to establish, cultivate, and strengthen current and prospective client relationships.
- Serve as a liaison between client and delivery team when warranted, ensuring that client expectations and met and provide a communication channel to raise project delivery concerns.
- Assign and manage project delivery staff to serve as client service managers for the division's largest clients.
What Success Looks Like
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in engineering field, including civil, electrical, mechanical, or structural.
- Fifteen or more years of experience delivering engineering consulting projects, including ten or more years of progressive project management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multidisciplinary projects and managing scope, fee, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, and client communication.
- Experience supervising, coaching, mentoring, or providing formal oversight to project managers or senior technical professionals.
- Ability to review proposals, evaluate scope and fee assumptions, assess delivery and contract risk, and determine whether commitments are achievable.
- Working knowledge of QA/QC processes, project controls, technical deliverable reviews, documentation requirements, and project financial performance.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and project management, scheduling, estimating, financial, or collaboration tools.
- Ability to work across disciplines and organizational boundaries while balancing project, client, employee, and business needs.
- Strong leadership skills demonstrated by an ability to inspire and guide team by building confidence, fostering collaboration, and providing clear direction to achieve project, team, and division goals.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to align project delivery with organizational goals, anticipate future challenges, identify opportunities, and plan for long-term success.
- Clear, concise communication skills to manage client relationships, address team concerns, and keep everyone involved informed and aligned; serve as a bridge between clients, project team members, and division leadership.
- Effective negotiation skills to manage client expectations, resolve conflicts, and secure required resources, with the ability to find mutually beneficial solutions in a variety of situations.
Nice to Have Experience
- Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), or comparable professional credential.
- Experience leading project delivery within facilities engineering, building engineering, process engineer, power / central plant facilities, or a multidisciplinary AEC consulting environment.
- Experience establishing project management standards, facilitating project reviews, implementing delivery tools, or leading continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Experience supporting recruiting, onboarding, training, career development, or succession planning for project management professionals.
- Experience supporting complex project recovery, claims avoidance, contract risk management, or corrective action planning.
100% Employee-Owned
At TKDA, every employee is an owner. From the front desk to the corner office, every one of our 450 professionals thrive on collaboration and holistic development. Our success is collective, and so are the rewards.
Comprehensive Benefits
- Health Benefits: Enjoy medical, dental, vision, and life insurance from day one
- Annual Incentive Plan: Eligible for discretionary bonuses
- HSA Contributions: Receive monthly employer contributions if you choose an HSA-eligible plan
- 401(k) Match: Get employer matching on your 401(k) deferrals
- ESOP: Benefit from our Employee Stock Ownership Plan, funded entirely by company profits
- Paid Time Off: Accrue PTO based on your professional experience and enjoy eight paid holidays per year
Upon receiving a formal offer, you will get a personalized Total Compensation Overview (TCO) to see how everything adds up and what it looks like to be part of our community.
TKDA is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, all applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
**All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future visa sponsorship needs or requirements.** TKDA does not sponsor any type of employment visas, including but not limited to H‑1B, F‑1 OPT/CPT, TN, or other work authorization programs.
*Pre-Employment Screening*
Upon acceptance of a conditional offer of employment, the selected candidate will be required to complete a standard pre-employment background screening, which consists of Social Security verification, educational verification, review of criminal convictions, and driving history.
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