Project Manager - Chicago Studio

Posted: January 27, 2025

Location

Chicago
410 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 1600
Chicago, IL 60611, USA

Who Are We?

At Perkins&Will, we passionately believe that design can transform lives and enhance communities, creating healthy, sustainable places to live, learn, work, play, heal, move, and explore. We’re in it for the greater good; we design to create places with meaning, and we design with purpose. Join the brightest minds in architecture!

Who Are You?

Perkins&Will is seeking a highly motivated individual to join us as a Project Manager for our Chicago Studio. To join us, you should have:

• Professional degree in graphic design, interior design, architecture or related discipline.
• 10+ years of professional experience.
• High level of creativity, innovative thinking and problem solving.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Collaborative and professional work ethic.
• LEED GA or obtained within 6 months of hire.
• Strong mentorship skills, as proven in previous experience.
• Be highly proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Revit.

What Will You Do?

As a Project Manager on the Perkins&Will Branded Environments team, you will:

• Manage project teams, fostering collaboration, demonstrating strong and effective communication and direction which inspires high team performance, design ideas and successful project delivery.
• Take full responsibility for managing all aspects of projects to ensure efficient execution within scope and budget.
• Participate in developing and validating project scope and fee, budget and scope of services during the marketing and contract development process.
• Provide ongoing communication through team meetings/minutes/update memos to project team.
• Interact comfortably with clients, consultants, and team members, while maintaining client’s objectives.
• Responsible for managing projects using the PMTK - the project management toolkit; including identification of project team members, budget, consultants, schedule for completion, fees and costs as well as project change notices or other actions taking place on the assigned project.
• Communicate with clients, consultants, contractors, sub-consultants and other disciplines to ensure effective communication.
• Participate in marketing opportunities and develop successful client relationships for continuing business.
• Review work for accuracy, omissions, legibility, and for document compliance in accordance with the Project Delivery Manual.
• Coordinate staffing resources with Operations Director.
• Assist with all firmwide pursuits as needed for storytelling, pitches, proposals.
• Research Leader - works directly with Knowledge manager to manage all things BE Chicago.
• Assist with Global BE initiatives as necessary.
• Assist with managing marketing efforts.
• Mentor staff.

Application Process

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume and work samples. Include your resume and a compact, representative sample of your work (no larger than 4MB). Please submit your files in PDF format.

Salary Range Information

We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair, competitive, and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidate’s qualifications including skill sets, education, experience and training, licensure and certifications credentials if applicable, and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees, including performance considerations for merit increases, job promotions, and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices, conduct pay equity audits, and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis.

At the time of posting this job advertisement, commensurate with qualifications, the annual pay salary range for this position in Chicago is between $90,400 and $102,400.

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At Perkins&Will, we believe that inclusion spurs creativity and that innovation is born from an engaged culture of diverse people and ideas. By moving beyond barriers and stereotypes of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status; we are committed to building an organization that reflects the diversity of the communities and clients we serve.

"Design has the power to inspire joy, uplift lives, and strengthen the spirit of community."

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Perkins&Will has established and adopted an Equal Employment Opportunity policy (“EEO”), which is part of the Company’s Human Resources Policy. The purpose of this EEO policy is to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. In some cases, local laws and regulations may provide greater protections than those outlined here and employees will