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Full-time
bachelor degree
Posted 41d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Manage the scope, schedule, and budget of geotechnical projects while coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders. Lead project delivery from opportunity identification through completion, ensuring quality control and effective risk management.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited university and at least two years of experience as a discipline or task lead. Preference is given to candidates with five years of engineering design experience and professional licensure.
Full job description
The right candidate is someone who understands soils, foundations, and site conditions—but also knows how to apply that knowledge in real-world projects. You should be comfortable making recommendations, standing behind your decisions, and guiding both clients and internal teams through complex geotechnical challenges.
In this role, you’ll manage field and laboratory programs, oversee analyses and reports, coordinate with civil, structural, and transportation teams, and ensure projects stay on track from scope, schedule, and budget perspectives. You’ll also work directly with clients—helping them understand risks, making practical recommendations, and building long-term relationships.
Position Summary:
The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the management and delivery of projects in accordance with each project’s client contract and to the expectations of PEC. This position is expected to manage the project scope, schedule, and cost while also assessing and managing risks and for client satisfaction. The Project Manager will coordinate and communicate with all appropriate project stakeholders, ensuring deliverables and milestones are on time and within budget.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Competent to make all business decisions on projects from opportunity identification through project completion with minimal guidance or oversight.
Anticipate and productively resolve discrepancies between client expectations and contracted scope
Manage project scope, cost, and schedule for the planning, execution, and delivery of projects on-time and within budget
Lead project teams throughout pre-contract phase. Collaborating with internal and external team members to develop fee proposals and when needed, establish project budgets. Thereafter preparing proposed contracts and sub-consultant contracts as appropriate
Responsible for assembling the project team with the approval of each project team member’s supervisor
Manage the flow of project work for all disciplines
Manage the application of resources to the project
Provide direction to project team for all project activities to keep them on schedule
Update project timeline and adjust scheduling and provide regular project updates to the project team and others as appropriate
Ensure Quality Control processes are followed, performed, and documented
Identify risk (client service risks, contract risks, technical risks, staffing risks, etc.), appropriately communicates risk and risk management strategies internally, and diplomatically and effectively navigate risk management with clients and project teams
Lead project teams through forecasting estimates to complete and assessing work progress
Communicate effectively with the project team, Market VP, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to accomplish the project goals and the expectations of PEC
Effective and appropriate client communication and client management
Adhere to all adopted business practices and quality procedures
Represent themselves and PEC in a professional, strategic, and courteous manner
Project assignments and responsibilities may be added at the company’s discretion.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
Considerable knowledge and understanding of consulting design and construction standards and practices
Strong skills using project management tools and systems, including but not limited to scheduling software, including Microsoft Project
Proficient Microsoft Office and Bluebeam skills
Familiar with CADD and REVIT software applications and processes
Proven experience working in collaborative environments using Microsoft Teams
Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with internal and external project teams, the client and other stakeholders
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and guide others, build effective and cohesive relationships
Proven experience in planning, organizing, prioritizing, coordinating, training, supporting, assigning and evaluating the work of a project team
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field from ABET Accredited University required
Minimum two (2) years’ experience as a discipline/task lead required
Minimum two (2) years’ experience in Project Management or related experience/field preferred
Minimum five (5) years’ experience in Engineering Design preferred
License and Certification:
Licensure by the applicable State Board of Technical Professions preferred
Work Environment:
PEC values working efficiently and collaboratively for quality and productive work. The work environment is business casual, friendly, respectful, and team oriented with daily peer interactions regarding work progress, client needs and project-specific technical issues. We strive to create an enjoyable work environment with support and opportunities for positive career growth. Much of the work will be conducted within an office setting with frequent sitting, reaching and manipulation of objects, tools and/or controls. The position requires mobility. Duties involved require moving materials that weigh up to 10 pounds on a regular basis and up to 25 pounds on an occasional basis. Manual dexterity and coordination are required over 50% of the work period while operating equipment such as computer keyboard, mouse, calculator and similar machines. At times, bending, reaching, standing, and walking may be required.
Supervisory Responsibilities (if there are no supervisor responsibilities, put N/A):
Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) was founded more than half a century ago on the promise that we would apply scientific principles to make things work, and ultimately, create opportunities. Today, we are a family of more than 400 multi-discipline professionals, working across dozens of disciplines, serving all 50 states. From PEC’s locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Colorado, our work takes us across the nation and around the world to design an increasing variety of projects. From the roads and bridges connecting them, the energy powering them, the hospitals healing them, and the schools teaching them, PEC strives to better the communities you lead and live in.
Offices: 303 S. Topeka, Wichita, KS 67202, US · 400 S Kansas Ave, Ste 200, Topeka, Kansas 66612, US · 623 Massachusetts St, Ste 200, Lawrence, KS 66044, US · 104 S. Pine, Pittsburg, KS 66762, US · 1924 S Utica Ave, Ste 1400, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104, US
Water/Wastewater System DesignFacilities EngineeringTransportation EngineeringStructural EngineeringGeotechnical EngineeringMaterials TestingCommissioningTest and Balanceand SurveyConsulting
Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) was founded more than half a century ago on the promise that we would apply scientific principles to make things work, and ultimately, create opportunities. Today, we are a family of more than 400 multi-discipline professionals, working across dozens of disciplines, serving all 50 states. From PEC’s locations in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Colorado, our work takes us across the nation and around the world to design an increasing variety of projects. From the roads and bridges connecting them, the energy powering them, the hospitals healing them, and the schools teaching them, PEC strives to better the communities you lead and live in.
Offices: 303 S. Topeka, Wichita, KS 67202, US · 400 S Kansas Ave, Ste 200, Topeka, Kansas 66612, US · 623 Massachusetts St, Ste 200, Lawrence, KS 66044, US · 104 S. Pine, Pittsburg, KS 66762, US · 1924 S Utica Ave, Ste 1400, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104, US
Water/Wastewater System DesignFacilities EngineeringTransportation EngineeringStructural EngineeringGeotechnical EngineeringMaterials TestingCommissioningTest and Balanceand SurveyConsulting