Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Oversee and monitor project timelines, milestones, budgets, deliverables, and the overall health of multiple ongoing projects.

• Ensure that projects adhere to schedules and that internal teams fulfill established deadlines and commitments.

• Identify potential risks, coordination gaps, scope issues, staffing challenges, and client-related concerns proactively before they escalate.

• Advise the Principal on project risks and suggest solutions in a timely manner to avert delays, budget impacts, client dissatisfaction, or project failures.

• Act as the primary point of coordination among designers, consultants, contractors, vendors, and clients.

• Track outstanding decisions, approvals, RFIs, submittals, consultant coordination items, and action items to sustain project momentum.

• Facilitate project meetings, document meeting notes, and ensure that follow-up actions are executed.

• Assist in resource planning and workload coordination across the studio.

• Monitor project progress and team performance to ensure that quality and scheduling expectations are met.

• Support the Principal in evaluating project performance and pinpointing areas needing additional support or intervention.

• Conduct QA/QC reviews of project drawings, specifications, presentations, and documentation prior to issuance.

• Ensure that all deliverables are coordinated both internally and externally before release.

• Verify that design intent, material selections, dimensions, notes, schedules, and project information are complete and consistent across all documents.

• Review consultant information and coordination packages for completeness and uniformity.

• Confirm that client approvals have been obtained and documented before moving forward with project phases.

• Collaborate closely with designers to identify errors, omissions, inconsistencies, and coordination issues before they affect the project.

• Assist in establishing and maintaining internal quality-control procedures and project standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in project management, project coordination, studio management, architecture, interior design, construction, or a related field.

• Exceptional organizational and multitasking abilities with the capacity to manage several projects at once.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

• Keen attention to detail and strong critical-thinking capabilities.

• Professional and confident communication skills with clients, consultants, contractors, and vendors.

• Experience in reviewing drawings, project documentation, consultant packages, and coordination deliverables.

• Comprehensive understanding of project workflows, timelines, and design/construction coordination processes.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment.

• Highly proactive, reliable, intuitive, and solution-oriented.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours aligned with U.S. time zones.

• Opportunity for remote work from home.