Lead Enterprise Project Manager

Build the future, spark innovation and align your career with purpose.

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating lasting impact. Together, we’re building a thriving planet.

Buildings are a leading contributor to the climate crisis, generating nearly 40% of total global energy-related carbon emissions. We’re making a lasting impact on our industry and within our communities by addressing the climate, affordability and equity crises through:

• renewables and energy services
• engineering and design
• construction and facility services

To get where we’re going, we need big thinkers, problem solvers and collaborative mindsets. Does that sound like you?

The Opportunity with McKinstry

We are currently seeking a Lead Enterprise Project Manager to join our Corporate team in Seattle, WA. This role is responsible for delivering complex, cross-functional and/or enterprise-wide initiatives while strengthening how project management is practiced across the organization. This role operates at the center of high-impact work — partnering with business leaders, aligning teams, and ensuring our most important initiatives move forward with clarity, discipline, and momentum.  As a close partner to leadership, this role will help translate strategy into execution and improve consistency in how projects are planned, led, and delivered. Responsibilities include:

Lead Strategic and High-Impact Enterprise Initiatives

• Own and deliver complex, cross-functional projects tied to strategic priorities

• Drive alignment across stakeholders, teams, and competing priorities

• Establish clear scope, timelines, success measures, and accountability

• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers early — and take action to resolve them

•  Step into challenged initiatives to stabilize execution and restore momentum

Strengthen Team Project Delivery

• Operate as both strategist and doer — shaping how McKinstry thinks about project management excellence while driving project initiatives forward

• Set operational excellence for strong project management

• Lead and guide other project managers on planning, communication, and delivery

• Help ensure consistency in how projects are scoped, managed, and reported

Improve Clarity, Prioritization, and Visibility

• Bring structure to ambiguous work and translate it into actionable plans

• Improve visibility into project health, risks, and outcomes for leadership

• Align priorities across initiatives and help teams stay focused on what matters most

• Ensure reporting is clear, concise, and decision-oriented

Partner with Department Leadership

• Support portfolio planning, prioritization, and resource alignment

• Represent the PMO in cross-functional forums and leadership discussions

•  Identify and implement improvements to tools, workflows, and operating rhythm

• Translate execution insights into recommendations that improve how work gets done

 What You Need to Succeed at McKinstry

• 10–12 years of experience in project or program management

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leadership

• Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or evolving work

• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment and move work forward across teams

• Excellent communication skills — clear, concise, and outcome-focused

• A strategic leader who enjoys building and shaping programs in a growing organization\\Comfortable operating in ambiguity and bringing structure to complex, cross-functional issues

• Confident in engaging executive leadership and influencing without authority

• Analytical and pragmatic — ability to connect data to business impact

• Equally capable of setting vision and ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to execute

• Ability to thrive in environment of high change, the problems are complex, and the impact is tangible

PeopleFirst Benefits

When it comes to the basics, we have you covered:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with employer match and profit-sharing plan
• Paid time off and holidays
• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision with low or zero deductible options and low out of pocket maximums

People come first at McKinstry, and we go beyond the basic benefits with:

• Family formation benefits, including adoption and IVF assistance
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Transgender inclusive benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Pet insurance
• “Building Good” paid community service time
• Learning and advancement opportunities via McKinstry University
• McKinstry Moves onsite gyms or reimbursement for remote workers

See benefit plan documents for complete details.

If you’re driven by our vision to build a thriving planet together, McKinstry is the place to build your career.

The pay range for this position is $123,570 – $214,110 per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Base pay information is based on market location.

The McKinstry group of companies are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, race, color, creed, marital status, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to employment, advancement, assignment, and training. This commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity is made equally as a social responsibility and as an economic and business necessity. 

McKinstry is a drug-free workplace. Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a pre-employment drug and alcohol test, complying with the requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act and a Confidentiality Agreement, in addition to successful outcomes of background and reference checks.

Applicants for this role will only be considered if they possess current US Work Authorization, and do not require employer-sponsored VISA support to begin or remain in this role.

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Salary : $123,570 - $214,110