What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager II - Entertainment & Workplace (A&E) position at Progressive Companies?
As a Project Manager II, you will lead project teams and serve as a trusted client partner to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget. You will guide day-to-day execution, build strong relationships, and keep teams aligned from project startup through closeout. This role is ideal for a collaborative leader who can balance client needs, project performance, and team success across multiple small to mid-sized projects or programs.
Deliver Results
- Lead multiple small to medium-sized projects and/or moderate-volume programs with a focus on quality, schedule, budget, and client satisfaction.
- Serve as a primary client contact, building trust, maintaining strong communication, and identifying opportunities to deepen client relationships.
- Guide project startup activities, including budgets, schedules, project setup, and team alignment.
- Support proposal and agreement development, consultant coordination, and contract setup to position projects for success.
- Monitor project financial performance, technical effort, scope, and schedule while proactively identifying risks and managing changes.
- Oversee project management best practices, QA/QC milestones, and compliance with Progressive Companies processes and project standards.
- Document project progress and closeout activities while helping identify future work and marketing opportunities.
- Mentor team members, support collaboration across disciplines, and help resolve project quality and risk issues before construction.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Interior Design, Construction Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated project management experience leading small to medium-sized projects or programs with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, and team coordination.
- Strong client relationship skills with the ability to communicate clearly, build trust, and manage competing priorities effectively.
- Working knowledge of project financial management, risk management, QA/QC processes, and consultant coordination.
- Proven ability to lead teams, foster collaboration, mentor others, and drive results in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred
- Experience supporting proposals, contracts, and project startup processes.
- Experience working within architecture, engineering, or multidisciplinary design environments.
- PMP, RA, PE, NCIDQ, or other relevant professional credential.
People Matter
Each individual’s background, knowledge, ability, and experience contributes to strengthening our organization and projects. Our dedication to diversity includes company provided training and education, equitable recruitment, a grassroots employee DEI committee, and robust community partnerships.
Progressive Companies is comprised of people with a variety of abilities, races, colors, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, ages, veteran statuses, and more. As an equal opportunity employer, we believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential elements of innovative design. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Transforming Spaces. Empowering People.
The talented professionals of Progressive Companies are designers of a bold new future, creating high-performance structures and pathways, delivering on today’s needs and preparing for what’s to come. We live by the idea that design isn’t simply about beauty, it’s about improving strategic outcomes—what we call Performance Based Design. Our work spans across the nation, allowing team members to work on a variety of exciting projects and maximize impact as trusted partners to our clients and communities.
Sustainable and Inclusive
We are dedicated to human-centered, sustainable, and inclusive design practices. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building trust, respect, and truly innovative design making spaces welcoming and accessible to all. Our sustainability approach embraces the AIA 2030 Commitment, together with a range of high performance, restorative, and regenerative strategies with a focus on climate responsive results to maximize positive impact in our industry.
Employee Owned
We act like owners—because we are. From modest beginnings of four original engineering partners in 1962, to almost 300 architects, engineers, designers, and consultants across multiple regional offices today, the energy, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial mindset you expect from a CEO come standard with every team member.
Culture of Excellence
The firm is continually ranked as one of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation®, with comprehensive benefits including an award-winning wellness program, hybrid work schedule, summer hours, profit-sharing, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). We take our work seriously, but have fun along the way, which fuels the creative spirit and supports a focus on work and life integration.
Progressive Companies is committed to development and growth of team members through continuing education, mentorship, growth opportunities, and more. We are dedicated to giving back to our communities, with paid service-learning hours available to every employee and corporate sponsorship for a wide range of community organizations and activities.