Federal Project Executive
BRPH
$139 - $200 / hour
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Description
BRPH is a technically focused, creative architecture, engineering, and construction company with over six decades of expertise in helping mission-driven clients in the aerospace, defense, manufacturing, commercial, education, entertainment, hospitality, and federal markets identify gaps in their program delivery and develop innovative solutions to their most challenging problems across the U.S. and around the world. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top firms, we take pride in solving complex challenges with forward-thinking solutions.
SUMMARY:
The Federal Project Executive performs Management of multiple BRPH projects and defined customer programs with the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as other select federal organizations. Leads strategic architectural/engineering design projects from concept through construction documentation, while ensuring compliance with client requirements. Oversees project managers delivering architectural/engineering design projects while serving as the client-facing executive, ensuring design integrity, technical excellence, financial success, and prudent risk management, while adhering to BRPH’s Mission and Vision.
As part of the federal business unit, supports the development of new business and generates sales in keeping with annual company and individual goals for BRPH Architects and Engineers. Proactively initiates and maintains client contact, cultivates potential client and local strategic partnerships and relationships with key decision-makers and implements public relations and business development activities that are continually effective and competitive. Interfaces with clients and project teams to ensure successful outcomes and repeat business. Leverages client trust to drive repeat business and expanded project roles for BRPH.
CULTURAL ATTRIBUTES:
• Strategic mindset, decisive and calm under pressure
• Effective communication skills, with executive presence
• Mentorship, integrity, professionalism
• Adaptable, resilient, results-driven, and aligned with firm core values
• Promotes continuous improvement and supports best practices and standards by the BRPH Project Management Office (PMO).
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:
• Project Management Mastery: Strong in scope management, scheduling, budgeting, earned value, resource planning, and risk control.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to link design decisions to client goals and business outcomes.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to present convincingly to executives, lead alignment, and manage stakeholder consensus.
• Problem Solving: Sound judgment, ability to break down complex issues, weigh trade-offs, and make timely decisions.
• Financial Acumen: Understanding forecasting, profitability, cost control, and managing change orders/additional services.
• Work in a team environment with close coordination with the Federal Business Unit Leader, National Practice leaders, and associated team members to help drive business and execute projects.
• Understanding of procurement and delivery requirements for federal architecture and engineering projects.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serves as the primary client interface during design phases: understands client goals, manages expectations, presents at steering committees, and guides stakeholder alignment
• Shapes and defends design vision: leads technical reviews, resolves interdisciplinary coordination issues, enforces design intent consistency across disciplines and phases.
• Oversees project scope, schedule, budgets, financial health, and change control. Anticipates and mitigates scope creep; develops, maintains, and monitors detailed project schedules; tracks critical path tasks, intervenes on slippages, and manages recovery strategies.
• Ensures that each discipline meets deliverable timelines and maintain cross-discipline coordination to avoid rework.
• Identifies project risks and issues proactively; maintains a risk register; leads risk mitigation planning.
• Leads all project coordination meetings, maintains decision and issues logs, produces regular status updates (schedule, cost, risk, design progress).
• Conducts QA/QC reviews, enforces compliance with codes, standards, firm processes, and reduces rework.
• Drives project close-out: ensures final deliverables, meets quality and completeness, facilitates lessons-learned sessions, documents best practices for continuous improvement.
• Provides vision, direction, and alignment to design leads and discipline teams, clearly linking project goals to design execution.
• Mentors and coaches design staff and early career project managers, helping their professional growth, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and technical development.
• Supports Federal Business Unit Leader with the development and execution of sales and marketing activities necessary to penetrate targeted business segments and maintain a robust sales funnel of potential opportunities with short-and long-range goals. Contributes to development of annual business plans and growth targets.
• Cultivates relationships with local contracting partners, sub-consultants and economic development organizations
• Functions as communications link between the client and internal BRPH team for all new business activity.
• Supports activities with the pursuit team for developing proposals upon identification of specific opportunities that pass the Go/No-Go process.
• Maintains all marketing information requirements, including a sales funnel of leads and prospects in Deltek Vantagepoint, call reports, capture plans and related correspondence.
• Engages in occasional travel for client site meetings, design reviews, and stakeholder engagements.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering, from an accredited four-year college or university.
• Ten years of experience as project manager, with preferred experience in delivering projects to federal clients, primarily to Department of War (DoW), including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM), Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC), Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and/or (DoW) installations.
• Proficient with operating a personal computer and use of Deltek Vantagepoint or similar project management software, MS Excel/Word/Outlook/Teams/Power Point, Bluebeam, and other required programs.
CERTIFICATE, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
• Registered/licensed architect or engineer is highly preferred;
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering.
• Ten years of experience as project manager, seller-doer type role.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a strong differentiator, but not mandatory
• Proficient with operating a personal computer and use of Deltek Vantagepoint, MS Excel/Word/Outlook/Bluebeam, and other required programs.
Denver, California - Salary Range - $139K - $200K DOE.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.
EOE/AA/MFDV
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This job description may be changed to include new responsibilities and tasks or change existing ones as management deems necessary.
EOE, including Disability/Vets
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# About This Role
This is a senior leadership position managing multiple federal architecture and engineering projects for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. You'll serve as the primary executive interface with clients—presenting at steering committees, guiding stakeholder alignment, and ensuring design integrity from concept through construction documentation. The role demands strong project management across scope, schedule, budget, and risk, with particular emphasis on anticipating and controlling scope creep, maintaining cross-discipline coordination, and delivering quality outcomes on time and within budget.
Beyond project delivery, you'll drive business development for BRPH's federal unit. This includes cultivating relationships with key decision-makers, identifying new opportunities, supporting proposal development, and building a robust sales pipeline. You'll work closely with the Federal Business Unit Leader and practice leaders to execute annual growth targets and penetrate targeted market segments. The position requires someone who can balance the demands of complex project execution with strategic business development—maintaining client trust while expanding BRPH's role and repeat business.
Success in this role depends on executive presence, sound judgment under pressure, and the ability to mentor and align internal teams while managing external stakeholder expectations. You'll need demonstrated mastery in project controls (earned value, scheduling, budgeting, change management), strategic thinking that links design decisions to client outcomes, and financial acumen. This is an in-office role in Atlanta, based within BRPH's federal business unit.
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