Architect - Project Director

Company Overview

MCG Architecture is an award-winning, nationally recognized firm specializing in Retail, Office, and Hospitality Architecture. We are committed to delivering innovative design solutions that elevate our clients' brands and spaces. Job Overview

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Director to lead and oversee large-scale construction projects from inception to completion. This pivotal role requires a strategic thinker with exceptional leadership skills, a deep understanding of construction management, and proficiency with industry-standard software. As a Project Director, you will drive project success through effective coordination, meticulous planning, and rigorous execution, ensuring all project objectives are met on time and within scope.

POSITION TITLE: Project Director

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Managing Principal

GENERAL POSITION DESCRIPTION: Responsible for leading projects from budget, proposal and completion. Ensure that project teams meet quality, schedule, contractual and budget goals. Have an architectural license; over 6 years’; design and technical experience; contract and negotiation skills; leadership skills; mentor and planner of team/staff; mature; organized; business development; business relationship with client.

The required responsibilities and authority of MCG’s Project Director include, but are not limited to, the following:

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Management of project labor focusing on billable time and experienced staffing.

· Participation in weekly Project Leader meetings with a working knowledge of projections of billable work, the staffing that will be needed, and the scheduling necessary to meet client expectations.

· Regular monitoring and approvals of timecards to see those hours are being properly logged and meet budgeted projections.

· Working knowledge of the experience, strengths and weaknesses of all team members.

· Regularly check-ins during the day to see what members of your team are actually doing.

· Request to be copied on email from your staff to monitor progress and any potential issues.

· Projections of existing and anticipated future project workloads and their staffing/scheduling requirements.

Business development with their clients and, in the context of the company, business development for all of MCG.

· Client maintenance.

· Develop client relationships.

· Elicit client referrals.

· Regular contact with past clients for new work opportunities.

· Relate projected opening dates to the Managing Principal.

· Suggest potential projects to be photographed to the Managing Principal.

· Review of periodicals, newspapers and digital articles for potential new leads to be shared with the Managing Principal and other Project Directors.

· Where possible, provide client referrals to our other offices as may be appropriate.

· Broker and contractor contacts and referrals.

· Assurances that job signs are posted.

Leadership in, and enforcement of, professional ethics within their project teams.

· Awareness of and conformance to state licensing laws.

· Awareness of and conformance to the AIA’s code of ethics.

· Promotion of MCG’s established corporate culture.

Management of contract content and the potential for added liability with clients and/or consultants.

· Review and approval of all client and consultant contracts before terms and fees are discussed or sent out.

· Identification of LLC and LP client entities for possible further investigations.

· Identification of new clients for possible further investigations.

· Referral to our Managing Principal of all questionable contract terms and Owner originated agreement formats.

· Incorporation of our Managing Principal’s recommendations.

· Preparation or approval of all project budgets with appropriate profit margins.

· Monitoring to see that agreements are sent and received as signed in a timely manner.

· Assure that budgets and signed agreements are sent to Accounting in a timely manner.

· Awareness of anticipated signed agreements.

· Awareness of acceptable limits of liability in all agreements.

· Proper documentation of all requested client or other necessary revisions.

· Working daily knowledge of all project agreement terms.

Management of revenue and the collection of accounts receivable.

· Working knowledge of all accounts receivable on assigned projects.

· Awareness of monthly projections for anticipated revenue and collections.

· Review, correction, and approval of all draft invoicing.

· Awareness of current percentages of project completion.

· Review and initialing and/or other annotation of draft invoicing.

· Review of projects unbilled revenue and actions to see that these monies are billed in the very near future.

· Assist in calling clients on accounts exceeding 45 days as directed by the Managing Principal.

· Assist in pursuit of accounts exceeding 60 days as directed by the Managing Principal.

· Assist and recommend to the Managing Principals to stop work on accounts exceeding 90 days.

· Assist and recommend to Managing Principals on potential write-downs or settlements.

· Assist and recommend to the Managing Principals on potential legal actions that may be needed.

Management of project team human resources.

· Working knowledge of the policies in our Employee Handbook.

· Counsel the Managing Principal regarding team performance reviews and the potential participation in these reviews.

· Regular meetings with individual team members.

· Provide team mentoring.

· Suggest team-learning opportunities.

· Attendance at, and participation in, office functions.

Management of project expenses and budgetary control.

· Thorough review of weekly team timecards.

· Awareness of projections of monthly expenses.

· Thorough regular reviews of Labor Reports and Project Progress Reports.

· Monitoring of project profitability.

· An early action to make necessary corrections to budgetary or scheduling issues.

· Review and approval of project related timecards, expense reports and travel reports.

An educated and concerned voice in office management decisions and actions.

· Participation in Project Directors work sessions.

· Sharing of solutions.

· Recognition/anticipation of the need for requests for assistance as may be identified.

· The management of shared work relations with our other MCG offices.

Regular reporting to the Managing Principals

· Active project time report updates.

· Anticipated sharing of work or of work needed to maintain a billable team.

· Sharing of potential cost saving ideas and solutions.

Quality control and document responsibility.

· PD to be a registered architect and maintain registration, at a minimum, in state office is located.

· Sign and stamp drawings if requested.

· Technical and design experience and skills.

· Working knowledge of all project phases from preliminary design through project closeout.

· Working knowledge of codes and ordinances.

· Assure that quality reviews are performed on all team projects.

· Working knowledge of our established technical policies.

· Awareness of and correction to project budgets and schedules as may be needed.

· Review of team correspondence for language, purpose and content.

· Prepare necessary project correspondence and see that it is properly issued and filed.

· Maintenance of appropriate project logs.

Preferred Personality Traits

· Entrepreneurial.

· Responsible.

· Experienced.

· Leadership skills.

· Negotiation skills.

· Presentation skills.

· Mentoring skills.

· Organized.

· Detail oriented.

· Mature.

· Approachable.

· Planner.

· Proactive.

· Ability to handle multiple projects and clients.

· Awareness of specific weaknesses.