Job Description
Job Description
Ardurra is looking to hire an experienced PMO Director to join our team.
We are a nationally recognized engineering, consulting, and design firm providing complex services across multiple markets, including water, wastewater, transportation, aviation, and public works. Ardurra is known for its people‑centric culture, strong client relationships, and focus on delivering technically advanced, sustainable infrastructure solutions.
With our recent rapid, strategic growth over the past several years, expanding our footprint across the United States, strengthening our technical capabilities, we are looking to add an experienced PMO professional to provide strategic leadership for project delivery standards, ensure reliable project and financial data, and equip Project Managers with the tools, training, and oversight needed to execute successfully.
Primary Function:
The PMO Director is responsible for enabling consistent, predictable, and profitable project delivery across the enterprise. The PMO Director, will report directly to the Chief Operations Officer, and will partner closely with Operations, Finance, and Executive Leadership to improve execution discipline, margin performance, and delivery transparency while maintaining a practical, supportive, and non-policing PMO culture.
This role offers a strategic leadership role within a firm well known for its high quality of work, exciting growth, and innovation.
Primary Duties:
- Establish, implement, and enforce standardized project startup requirements, including budget setup, schedule baselining, risk identification, workplan development, and alignment with approved fees.
- Oversee and support Project Managers in developing Project Management Plans and Quality Management Plans, and identify opportunities to leverage automation and AI for efficiency and accuracy.
- Serve as the enterprise “quarterback” for the Project Status Review (PSR) process, ensuring consistent, timely, and accurate reporting across all projects.
- Monitor project performance against scope, schedule, and budget, partnering with Project Accountants, Project Managers, and Project Directors to track progress and corrective actions.
- Track and oversee change orders, scope creep, client approvals, and significant Risks & Opportunities (R&Os), ensuring escalations are addressed with Regional Operations Directors and Responsible Functional Directors.
- Standardize financial and technical project closeout processes, capture lessons learned from delivery and client experiences, and feed insights back into training and project startup standards.
- Develop and maintain Project Manager enablement resources such as templates, playbooks, and checklists, providing coaching and guidance to PMs on change management, margin forecasting, and schedule recovery.
- Lead the refresh and ongoing evolution of project management training programs, including Deltek Vantagepoint (ERP system) and PSR-related training, ensuring they are practical, scalable, and tied directly to improved delivery outcomes.
- Define, track, and analyze key delivery KPIs, including Earned Labor Margin (ELM), Estimate to Completion (ETC) and backlog forecast accuracy, timely revenue recognition, project erosion, and client satisfaction, delivering insights and recommendations to executives.
- Identify and implement technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve project startup, reporting, change management, and overall delivery performance, balancing standardization with operational flexibility.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management, Finance, or a related field required; Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred
- 10+ years of experience in project management, project controls, PMO leadership, or professional services delivery
- Proven experience leading enterprise-level PMO functions or driving delivery improvement initiatives across multiple teams or regions
- Strong background in financial performance management of complex projects, including margin, ETC, backlog, and revenue recognition
- Demonstrated ability to partner with executive leadership and regional operations teams to influence decisions and improve outcomes
- Experience developing and implementing standardized processes, reporting frameworks, dashboards, and PM enablement tools
- Track record of coaching and developing Project Managers and delivery teams, fostering operational excellence and accountability
- Familiarity with ERP systems (Deltek preferred) and automated reporting solutions for project delivery performance
- A Professional Engineer License and other professional certifications such as PMP preferred; Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement credentials a plus
Why Ardurra?
While Ardurra offers competitive compensation and rich benefits programs, it is our culture that truly sets us apart from our peers. We nurture a family-like culture, striving to create a work environment that is enjoyable, challenging and rewarding but also fun. We are acutely focused on developing our staff, whether through our internal Ardurra Academy or through our industry-leading Leadership program. We have made a deliberate and focused commitment to nurture a people-centric culture where people are: valued as individuals; supported in their professional and career development with multiple, varied career paths; provided the tools and resources to be successful, engaged, and satisfied in their work; and positive benefits, time-off programs, and flexibility to help maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Ardurra is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
Ardurra does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agency Agreement, Ardurra will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. If a resume or candidate is submitted to any hiring manager without a previously signed agreement, Ardurra reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. These candidates will be considered property of Ardurra. We’re not currently looking to add any more agencies to our list of approved vendors, so please do not contact any of our managers or recruitment team with sales calls or details of your candidates.
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