Project Manager, Education Market

Overview

As a Project Manager at DLR Group, you oversee one or more projects from inception to completion, leading cross-functional teams and external consultants to meet scope, schedule, and budget. You ensure design quality and project performance while advancing the firm's sustainable, education-focused mission. You collaborate with clients and internal leaders to drive value, accountability, and on-time decisions. This role sits within our education studios, where interdisciplinary work and ownership culture shape outcomes.

Compensation / Benefits

• employee-owned culture
• four-day in-office work model
• flexible Fridays (remote option)
• commitment to environmental stewardship
• equal opportunity employer
• ownership and sharing of success

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project teams, vendors, and consultants to meet scope, quality, budget, and schedule
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans with schedules, milestones, and staffing
• Monitor milestones and deliverables, ensuring submittals meet quality standards
• Support business development through RFQ/RFP participation and interview processes
• Negotiate scope of services and fees; prepare client and consultant agreements
• Provide status updates, propose adjustments, and drive client-directed changes
• Contribute to recruitment and provide leadership and performance feedback
• Establish clear client communication to ensure progress and timely decisions
• Collaborate with design leaders to ensure quality standards across all project phases
• Maintain accurate input of client and project information in PM systems

Key requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Interior Design
• 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 3 years as a project manager
• Licensure preferred but not required
• Working knowledge of local building and zoning codes
• Strong knowledge of design techniques, tools, and sustainable design principles for technical plans, drawings, and models
• Excellent written, verbal, and graphic communication; ability to multitask while upholding quality

• collaboration
• leadership
• strong communication
• project management
• scope and budget management
• scheduling and milestones