Architectural Project Manager, Healthcare

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We have an opening for an Architectural Project Manager, Healthcare This role can be based in the following cities:

• Phoenix

About Healthcare at DLR Group

At the center of DLR Group’s Healthcare practice is an individual - be it a patient, caregiver, instructor, or student. Our design extends beyond the building to consider the emotional, mental, and social well-being of its inhabitants. DLR Group designers are conscious that there are practical and aesthetic issues that must be mediated in healthcare facility planning and design. We leverage our experience and knowledge to deliver evidence-based solutions that support the unique needs of our clients, all the while rooting our practice in one core idea: empathy.

Position Summary

As a Project Manager at DLR Group, you will lead projects from pursuit through closeout in collaboration with our Client Leaders, Sector Leaders, and integrated design teams. You will be part of a dynamic, client-focused studio delivering healthcare projects that make a meaningful difference in people’s lives and communities. In this role, you will oversee the execution of healthcare projects with direct accountability for work plans, staffing strategies, budgets, and team communication. You will support and guide design excellence while ensuring that projects are delivered efficiently and in alignment with DLR Group’s integrated approach.

This is a key leadership position requiring strong interpersonal, technical, and organizational skills to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. You will help to shape the experience of our clients and design teams alike through thoughtful project execution, proactive problem solving, and mentorship of emerging professionals.

What you will do:

• Be a passionate advocate for high-performance healthcare design and integrated project delivery.

• Lead project scope, schedule, fee, and execution strategies in collaboration with Client Leaders.

• Develop and manage detailed work plans and staffing forecasts that align with contractual obligations.

• Coordinate across architecture, interiors, engineering, and specialty consultants to ensure cohesive delivery.

• Ensure project documentation meets firm and industry standards and supports regulatory compliance.

• Support financial health of projects through timely billing, invoice tracking, and budget stewardship.

• Identify project risks and lead mitigation planning with internal and external teams.

• Actively contribute to quality control efforts, constructability reviews, and technical excellence.

• Mentor team members, support professional development, and cultivate a collaborative culture.

• Lead stakeholder and user engagement sessions to promote client alignment.

• Support DLR Group’s commitment to sustainable, resilient, and human-centered design.

• Travel as required by project needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture.

• 6–10 years of experience as a Project Manager, including significant healthcare project work.

• Licensed Professional Architect in the State of Arizona.

• Proven experience delivering projects in the healthcare sector including:

• Acute care

• Ambulatory care

• Medical office buildings

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and deadlines.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g., Deltek Vision, MS Project).

• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for visa or residency sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with integrated project delivery (IPD) or design-build delivery models.

• Working knowledge of FGI Guidelines, IBC, and local healthcare codes and AHJs.

• Familiarity with Lean practices such as Target Value Design or Choosing By Advantages.

• ACHA Certification or active pursuit is a plus.

• Experience with rural hospitals, cancer centers, urgent care centers, or specialty clinics.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.