Higher Education Project Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Project Manager – Higher Education Architecture
We are partnering with a nationally recognized architecture and design firm seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the design and delivery of complex projects within its growing Higher Education practice.
This is a highly visible, client-facing position for a licensed architect who can successfully balance design quality, project execution, financial performance, and client relationships. The Project Manager will work closely with senior firm leadership, design leaders, clients, consultants, and multidisciplinary project teams to deliver sophisticated higher education projects from early planning and design through construction.
The successful candidate will bring strong experience working with colleges and universities and be comfortable leading both clients and internal teams through complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Delivery
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Lead architecture and planning projects through all phases of design, documentation, and construction.
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Partner closely with Design Principals and Higher Education market leadership to successfully pursue, win, and deliver work.
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Provide strategic direction to multidisciplinary project teams while maintaining high standards for design quality and technical execution.
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Establish and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, deliverables, and overall project progress.
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Coordinate effectively across internal teams, consultants, contractors, and client stakeholders.
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Identify potential project challenges early and provide proactive, practical solutions.
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Maintain quality control and ensure work complies with applicable codes, accessibility requirements, firm standards, and contractual obligations.
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Mentor architects and designers by establishing clear responsibilities, leveraging individual strengths, and creating opportunities for professional growth.
Client Leadership & Communication
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Serve as a primary point of contact for clients throughout the project lifecycle.
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Develop trusted, long-term relationships with university and institutional clients through proactive communication and strong project leadership.
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Guide conversations with campus stakeholders to establish project vision, programmatic requirements, design goals, budget, and schedule.
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Lead client meetings, presentations, workshops, and project discussions.
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Manage expectations and communicate project progress, risks, decisions, and solutions clearly throughout design and construction.
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Act as an advocate for both the client's objectives and overall design vision.
Project Planning & Financial Management
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Develop comprehensive project work plans, schedules, staffing strategies, and resource requirements.
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Manage project financial performance, including budgets, forecasting, invoicing, consultant payments, and overall profitability.
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Prepare fee proposals and participate in contract negotiations with clients and consultants alongside senior leadership.
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Direct and review the work of architects, designers, consultants, and other project team members.
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Apply knowledge of building codes, building systems, project delivery, and design technologies to support successful project outcomes.
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Utilize project management and financial management systems to maintain accurate and timely project information.
Construction Administration
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Provide leadership throughout the construction phase and maintain continuity from design through project completion.
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Oversee submittal reviews, RFIs, site observations, payment certifications, and resolution of field conditions.
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Work collaboratively with clients, contractors, and consultants to interpret construction documents and resolve issues efficiently.
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Monitor construction progress against design intent, schedule, quality, and contractual requirements.
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Support substantial and final completion activities in collaboration with project stakeholders.
Qualifications
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Professional degree in Architecture required.
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Active architectural licensure required.
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10+ years of professional architecture experience, with a strong track record delivering complex projects within the Higher Education market.
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Demonstrated experience managing projects from planning and design through construction.
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Strong understanding of architectural design, documentation, building systems, codes, accessibility requirements, and QA/QC processes.
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Experience managing project budgets, schedules, staffing, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams.
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Strong client-facing experience, ideally including presentations and engagement with university leadership, facilities teams, user groups, and other campus stakeholders.
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Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
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Working knowledge of industry platforms and technologies such as Revit, AutoCAD, Newforma, 3D modeling tools, and project management software.
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Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint is beneficial but not required.
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Willingness to travel as required for client engagements, projects, and firm initiatives.
What This Opportunity Offers
This is an opportunity to join an established, design-focused architecture practice with a strong national reputation and a significant presence in the Higher Education market. The position offers the ability to lead meaningful projects, develop long-term institutional client relationships, mentor talented teams, and work directly alongside senior leadership.
The firm offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes:
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Medical, dental, and vision insurance
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401(k) retirement plan
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Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
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Disability and life insurance
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FSA/HSA options
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Generous paid time off based on experience
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Paid family leave
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Educational and professional development benefits
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Long-term career development and leadership opportunities
We are seeking someone who combines strong project management capabilities with architectural expertise, client leadership, and genuine experience within Higher Education. This position is particularly well suited to an established Project Manager looking for greater project ownership, visibility, and long-term growth within a nationally respected design practice.
Business Development Manager, Thermal Services United States
Business Development Manager, Thermal Services
This role combines strategic business development with technical services expertise. The successful candidate will identify new service opportunities, build long-term OEM relationships and develop thermal service programs supporting next-generation liquid-cooled server platforms.
The Business Development Manager, Thermal Services will drive growth across the rapidly expanding high-performance liquid cooling market, working with major server manufacturers and technology partners supporting AI, HPC and high-density data center environments.
The position will work closely with engineering, product management and service teams to support the deployment, integration and lifecycle performance of Direct-to-Chip cooling, Coolant Distribution Units, hybrid cooling architectures and related thermal infrastructure.
• Identify and develop strategic thermal services opportunities with major server and technology manufacturers
• Build a pipeline of multi-year service agreements, commissioning programs, fluid management services, maintenance contracts and deployment support
• Develop relationships with OEM service organizations, thermal engineering teams, product groups and supply chain stakeholders
• Position thermal services as part of broader liquid cooling deployments for AI, machine learning and HPC platforms
• Lead technical and commercial discovery sessions to understand deployment challenges, service requirements and support models
• Develop service proposals covering uptime improvement, lifecycle support, commissioning, maintenance and performance optimization
• Lead opportunities from initial engagement through pilot programs and larger enterprise agreements
• Negotiate service pricing, service levels, geographic coverage, response expectations and performance commitments
• Track OEM technology roadmaps and platform launches to identify future thermal service requirements
• Identify opportunities to integrate services into extended support, warranty and managed service offerings
Experience Required
• 10+ years of experience across business development, technical sales, strategic account management, applications engineering or technical services
• Experience within data center cooling, server infrastructure, thermal management or another technically complex environment
• Proven ability to develop strategic partnerships with equipment manufacturers or technology providers
• Experience navigating complex customer organizations and developing relationships across engineering, product, service and commercial teams
• Working knowledge of liquid cooling and thermal management technologies
• Understanding of heat transfer principles, coolant characteristics, pump systems and server-level thermal management
• Familiarity with high-density computing environments and the thermal requirements associated with modern accelerated computing platforms
• Strong project management capability with experience coordinating technical and commercial teams
• Ability to translate technical service requirements into commercially viable solutions
Preferred Experience
• Degree in Engineering, Business or a related discipline
• Mechanical, Thermal or similar engineering background advantageous
• Experience supporting new product introduction or technology deployment programs
• Understanding of data center facility integration, secondary cooling loops and associated infrastructure
• Existing relationships within the server, data center or advanced computing ecosystem
• Relevant thermal management or data center industry certifications
Travel
Approximately 35% travel is expected, including customer meetings, data center site visits, technical support activities and industry events.
Vice President Capital Markets Los Angeles, California, United States
Vice President, Capital Markets
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Sector: Affordable Housing / LIHTC
Employment Type: Full-Time
The Opportunity
A well-capitalized, rapidly growing Affordable Housing development platform is seeking a Vice President of Capital Markets to join its Los Angeles-based team.
The company is actively scaling its development pipeline and is looking for an experienced capital markets professional to take a leadership role across debt, equity, LIHTC transactions & project closings.
Reporting directly to the executive leadership team, this individual will become a key point person across the company's capital markets function. They will work closely with development, acquisitions, investors, lenders, syndicators & JV partners to successfully move projects from initial underwriting through financial closing.
This is an opportunity for someone with strong technical LIHTC knowledge who wants to move into a highly visible role within a mission-driven developer focused on delivering housing at scale.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the capital markets & closing process for new Affordable Housing developments
* Manage transactions from development/acquisition handoff through successful financial closing
* Coordinate debt, tax credit equity & other project-level capital sources
* Manage project proformas throughout underwriting, financing & closing
* Evaluate different debt & equity structures to optimize project capitalization
* Serve as a key point of contact for lenders, tax credit investors, syndicators & JV partners
* Prepare investment materials & support presentations to Investment Committee
* Manage financial reporting & transaction requirements for institutional JV partners
* Participate in investor, lender & capital partner calls
* Work closely with internal development, acquisitions, finance & analyst teams
* Identify transaction risks, sensitivities & potential solutions throughout the closing process
* Act as a senior internal resource on LIHTC structures, investor requirements & Affordable Housing finance
* Provide leadership & mentorship to junior team members supporting transaction execution
Ideal Experience
* 7+ years' experience across Affordable Housing, LIHTC, real estate finance or capital markets
* Strong understanding of LIHTC transactions & new construction Affordable Housing
* Experience working on multiple project closings from underwriting through execution
* Background across debt & equity financing, ideally including tax credit equity
* Strong underwriting, financial analysis & real estate proforma experience
* Advanced Excel capabilities
* Experience reviewing developer proformas from an investor, lender or development perspective
* Exposure to Investment Committee processes, including preparing materials and/or presenting transactions
* Strong understanding of what institutional investors, tax credit investors & lenders require to successfully close transactions
The Person
The successful candidate will combine technical depth with strong communication skills.
The company already has strong analytical capabilities internally. This hire needs to be equally comfortable working through a complex proforma and representing the company in a conversation with an investor, lender or JV partner.
They are looking for someone who is:
* Commercial & relationship-oriented
* Confident presenting to senior internal & external stakeholders
* Highly analytical while remaining solutions-focused
* Comfortable taking ownership of complex transactions
* Able to operate independently within a fast-growing environment
* Collaborative & interested in developing junior team members
* Passionate about Affordable Housing & the underlying mission of creating housing
Mechanical Associate Director (Data Centres) London, Greater London, England
This is a genuinely rare opportunity to join a fast growing building services consultancy at a pivotal point in its growth, and help shape the future of its Mechanical capability within the Mission Critical sector. Our client works internationally with committed, high profile data centre clients who value long term relationships and technical excellence over anything transactional.
Reporting directly to the Technical Director / Board Director, you'll take the lead on the mechanical design of major data centre projects from initial concept through to completion. This isn't a role where you'll be one voice among many. You'll have genuine visibility, influence and the space to build something. Financial management, resourcing and technical leadership will all sit with you, alongside the mentoring and development of a growing team.
What you'll be doing
* Leading conceptual and detailed mechanical design solutions in line with client briefs
* Overseeing and verifying mechanical design calculations using Hevacomp and IES software
* Managing CFD briefing and reviews with the supply chain
* Owning project financial management and profitability reporting
* Identifying and managing resources to meet project requirements
* Leading technical and quality reviews across allocated projects
* Representing the business at client, design team and industry meetings
* Supporting fee submissions and project bids
* Providing specialist technical advice and guidance at project and group level
* Supporting business development within the Mission Critical sector
What we're looking for
* Degree qualified in Mechanical or Building Services Engineering
* Chartered Engineer, or working toward it, with CIBSE and IMechE membership
* 10+ years' experience within a recognised UK engineering consultancy
* 5+ years of dedicated data centre design experience
* Strong knowledge of HVAC and cooling systems for mission critical facilities, including large scale liquid cooling schemes
* Familiarity with BS EN 50600, ANSI/ASHRAE 90.4 and CIBSE guidance
* A solid understanding of design risk, redundancy, resiliency and data centre tier rating systems
* Familiarity with hyperscale, colocation and edge data centre requirements
* Strong Revit / BIM knowledge, ideally with ACC, BIM 360 and Navisworks experience
* A confident, client facing communicator, comfortable representing the business with clients and design teams
What's in it for you
* Annual bonus
* Hybrid working, 2 to 3 days a week from London, Manchester, Leeds or Sunderland
* Genuine influence over how the Mechanical team grows and delivers
* The chance to work on landmark data centre projects with an expanding, well regarded multi disciplinary team
* A healthy work life balance in a business that values it
If you're ready for a role with real ownership, and want to help build something rather than simply deliver within it, we'd like to talk.
Apply now or reach out for a confidential conversation.
Senior or Principal Mechanical Engineer London, Greater London, England
Data centres are one of the fastest moving spaces in engineering right now, and this is a genuine chance to be part of a consultancy that's thriving in it. Our client is a multi disciplinary building services consultancy with a growing, highly regarded Mission Critical team, delivering complex, high profile data centre projects for major international clients.
They're expanding fast and looking for a Senior or Principal Mechanical Design Engineer to join a talented, close knit MEP team. You'll get real ownership of design work, exposure to some of the most technically demanding cooling and HVAC challenges in the sector, and a clear path toward Principal and Associate Director level.
What you'll be doing
* Producing conceptual and detailed mechanical design solutions in line with client briefs
* Carrying out mechanical services design calculations using Hevacomp and IES software
* Supporting CFD briefing and reviews with the supply chain
* Working across heating, ventilation, air conditioning, cooling and domestic hot and cold water services for mission critical facilities
* Getting involved in large scale liquid cooling scheme design
* Working with HVAC systems including Fan Wall, CRAH/CRAC, VRV, VAV, 4 pipe fan coil, close control, chilled beam and chilled ceiling systems
* Taking projects from feasibility studies and concept design through to detailed design
* Producing mechanical specifications and schedules
* Building strong working relationships with architects, structural engineers, project managers and quantity surveyors
* Acting as a technical point of contact for clients
What we're looking for
* Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services or a related discipline
* Solid data centre or mission critical design experience
* Working toward Chartered status, or already chartered (CIBSE / IMechE)
* Familiarity with codes such as BS EN 50600, ANSI/ASHRAE 90.4 and CIBSE guidance
* Familiarity with data centre tier rating systems and hyperscale or colocation requirements
* Working knowledge of Revit and BIM workflows (ACC, BIM 360 and Navisworks are a bonus)
* A collaborative, client facing approach and strong communication skills
What's in it for you
* Salary £50,000 to £80,000 DOE
* Annual bonus, typically £1,000 to £5,000
* Hybrid working, 2 to 3 days a week from London, Manchester, Leeds or Sunderland
* A genuinely collaborative, multi disciplinary team
* A clear route toward Principal and Associate Director progression
* The chance to work on some of the most technically interesting cooling and HVAC challenges in the UK and internationally
If you're a mechanical design engineer looking for real technical variety, strong support and a clear future, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
