Description and Desired Qualifications

CH2M HILL Project Manager Careers – Portland, Oregon
The Challenge? Helping meet the demands of growing and dynamic High-Tech clients. At CH2M HILL, we deliver solutions that span the entire breadth of the Industrial & Advanced Technology world. Our Project Manager position will provide you with the opportunity to work on exciting projects with industry leading clients. Each day you will be an important team leader as you participate in the design, coordination, execution and supervision of the technical aspects of clients projects. You should be a self motivated, detailed oriented Engineer with minimum of 10 years of experience in Project Management and have prior international experience. You should have project delivery experience and technical skills to execute multiple projects. You must be effective at listening to a customer and developing a project scope that meets the client's needs.

Our Project Manager:

• Plans, directs, supervises and controls the execution of all business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of the assigned program or project from conceptual design through construction.
• Is customer focused with a personal drive and reputation for meeting commitments.
• Leads development of proposals, presentations and cost estimates.
• Manages multi-discipline project delivery; ensures compliance with overall project objectives.
• Evaluates material and construction bids.
• Complies with applicable regulations and client guidelines for design, project documentation and records.
• Develops the scope of engineering work, schedules, and budgets for the assigned project elements, monitors progress to maintain schedules and budgets; identifies and documents change scope.
• Interacts with architectural and engineering discipline leads to ensure compliance with project objectives.
• Manages technical support during construction.
• Possesses a broad technical background and has the ability to “roll up their sleeves" and self-perform work, along with managing it.
• Is comfortable in different roles, sometimes supporting, sometimes leading.
• Acts as the Company representative at the client site for project execution.
• Establishes requirements of the project and monitors the draft and final adherence to these criteria including total project cost management.
• Promotes technical excellence on the project, including furtherance of the Quality Improvement Process.
• Mentors and coaches technical discipline staff on the project, including providing support for staff career development.

Skills of successful Project Managers include:

• Excellent communication
• Listening
• Making and securing reliable promises
• Organization and planning
• Coaching
• Adaptive
• Ability and desire to master new skills

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in engineering or architecture
• Minimum 2 years of technical design discipline and project leadership experience
• Minimum of 10 years experience in project management
• International project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineering or Licensed Architect
• Experience or familiarity with lean design and construction practices (e.g. Last Planner System)

Degree Required

Bachelors or 4 Year Degree

What you will find

At CH2M HILL, the greatest challenges provide the biggest rewards. Each day, your drive and creative ideas will be providing solutions that help build a better tomorrow. Whether it is the pride that comes with accomplishment, personal growth or making a difference in the world, you will discover true success in a career that brings out the best in you at CH2M HILL. Ready? Let's get to work.

Developing People through Challenging Projects
CH2M HILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.