Project Manager

Who we are

Here at KLJ, we are Safe, Inclusive, Learners, Performers and Owners. We care that you get home safely. Every person, every idea, and every voice matters. We encourage personal and professional growth. We celebrate performance. As a 100% employee-owned firm, your decisions and efforts will help shape OUR great company.

Why work at KLJ

KLJ Engineering might be just the company you have been looking for. We are that perfect size – not so big that you become a number, not so small that our resources are limited. Here, you can be you, in all your engineering, surveying, planning and scientist glory. Just as you are. We embrace how much you love engineering, because we love it too. We love it when a road curves just right, when we see a familiar water tower on our drive home, or when we consider the fiber in the ground connects us to our friends and family. If you are looking to join a great firm, with amazing technical talent, we know just the place, here at KLJ.

Your Growth Opportunity

• Leads efforts in developing project scope, schedule, and fee during proposal preparation phase.
• Supports and/or participates in interviews and negotiations to the extent required.
• Sets baselines for project scope, determines work procedures/sequences and refines schedules, budgets, risk assessments, staffing, vendor lists and progress billing points.
• Works with Team Managers to request and form project teams, assigns responsibilities, and confirms those responsibilities are begun and completed according to schedule.
• Meets with customer’s management team and stakeholders as necessary during the term of a project to resolve issues and obtain approvals.
• Leads the project delivery team including project management staff and technical deliverable leads.
• Manages changes to project scope, schedule, budget and risks; submits contract amendments (upon internal approval) to customer’s management team regarding identified changes from contracted baseline documents.
• Conforms with KLJ project delivery and safety standards.
• Utilizes effective written and oral communication; plans and manages project communications.

What you're responsible for

• Supports Go-To-Market Teams in assessing pre-contract risks.
• Maintains a positive business relationship with customers as part of ongoing business development efforts.
• Responsible for the financial aspects of the project including optimizing revenue and cost management to maximize profit while minimizing project overruns and collect client accounts receivable within contracted terms.
• Responsible to ensure project change orders are submitted and approved prior to work starting.
• Works with customer’s management team to ensure all KLJ activities are billed properly, and accounts receivable balances are paid in a timely manner.
• Responsible to ensure error and omissions claims are minimized.
• Capture, document and share with the KLJ community "lessons learned".
• Works with the PMO Manager to continuously improve the organization’s project management capability and enhance the customer experience. May train other project managers on project delivery processes.

What you'll need

• A bachelor’s degree in an industry-related field; applicable experience can substitute for education.
• Demonstrated capabilities and success in managing smaller, routine projects
• Travel is required, must have a valid driver’s license and be able to operate motorized vehicles.

Preferences:

• Professional Engineer License
• PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CAPM or equivalent certification; working towards PMI certification
• Previous project management experience in a professional services firm

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

The employee is regularly required to:

• Sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, twist, crouch, and crawl
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms
• Talk or hear and communicate clearly

The employee must:

• Frequently lift and move up to 25 pounds, occasionally lift and move up to 50
• Be able to walk on uneven terrain up to three miles per day

What else you need to know

This job description is not meant to be all-inclusive or restrictive and other duties may be assigned. It is a description of the job as presently defined and is subject at any time to revision. This document is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, as needed.

At KLJ, we have a vested interest in the personal, financial, and professional goals of our employees. We offer a competitive full suite benefit package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance, performance bonus, 401k, employee stock ownership program. and a flexible work environment that gives you options to support excelling both professionally and personally. The options available for the current year are described at www.kljeng.com/careers/benefits.

All applicants must be authorized to work in the US, without employer-sponsorship. KLJ does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas and does not participate in any OPT training program.

KLJ will not be partnering with third-party recruiters on this position. Please review our third-party recruiting policy at www.kljeng.com/careers.

Position will be posted until filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)