About Bodwé Professional Services Group

Bodwé is the Professional Services Group of Mno-Bmadsen, the investment enterprise and a wholly owned instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We are architects, planners, consultants, designers, engineers, scientists, and federal contractors, committed to growing the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band and supporting its more than 6,000 citizens. We enhance space and place in partnership with clients that span the country and business sectors, offering full-service architecture and engineering services as well as contract support services for federal agencies. We design and build, preserve and restore, mitigate and manage, serve and problem solve.

About Blue Star Integrative Studio

We are founded on belief in the power of place that comes from a long-term relationship between people and the land. We are a Tulsa-based, Tribally-owned, Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) company, partnering with Indigenous, public, and private clients, holding high standards for ourselves as well as the people and the projects we engage. 

Position Summary

The Architectural Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of a completed project, including schematic design, design development, construction documents and construction administration. The project manager leads the client and provides exceptional client service with a strong service-orientation. The role must be able to oversee multiple projects simultaneously and successfully lead a design team with exceptional quality and within schedule and budget. This role is fully responsible for project delivery, including responding to client needs, creating design solutions, coordinating design sub consultants, and authoring construction documents.

Accommodation Requests

We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, contact 269-927-0144 or careers@bodwegroup.com

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The following inexhaustive list of duties represent a sample of work routinely performed by this role:

• Manage, oversee, and direct complex architectural projects with minimal supervision.
• Manage internal budgets and schedules.
• Develop work plans and tasks lists in collaboration with the project team.
• Conduct programming charrettes.
• Oversee the preparation of working drawings, calculations, specifications, schedules, and cost estimates on specific projects.
• Oversee the preparation of a coordinated set of construction documents, including managing sub consultants and coordinating their work.
• Ensure that projects meet applicable building codes, ADA guidelines, and other Federal, Tribal, and State and Local laws.
• Effectively communicate with Principals-in-Charge (PIC), regarding contract documents, change orders and other contract modifications, approvals, and any additional services-related to billing.
• Maintain all drawings, documents and communications in format that is retrievable and efficiently accessed by team members.
• Employ problem-solving skills and analysis and report problems, as necessary.
• Mentor/teach intern architects.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 Qualifications and Experience

Required Education and Degree: Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Architecture from an NAAB accredited institution.

Required Experience and Certification:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in an architectural practice
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Project Manager
• Registered Architect; Project Management Professional certification may be acceptable in lieu of Architecture Licensure
• Proficiency in business processes, including contractual and legal procedures
• Experience in healthcare, housing, tribal, and federal project markets preferred
• Experience in all phases of the design process from project planning and concepts through working drawings, specifications, and construction administration
• Strong problem-solving skills related to a wide variety of building projects, from renovation to new construction
• Strong design review skills
• Willingness to learn and adapt to change
• Can clearly articulate in written and verbal communications with clients, consultants, and staff
• Ability to work well with others under deadline situations and respond to changes in priorities
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, set priorities, and see projects through completion
• Strong service orientation

 Preferred Certification:

• LEED Credential

Required Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Projects, and Teams
• Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, and other BIM technology essential

 Working Environment

This is a hybrid position that will require some (≤ 15%) travel to headquarters, client project sites, or conferences. When in the office, the environment is temperature controlled subject to minimal exposure to outside elements. When traveling to project sites, this role will be exposed to various environments, terrains, temperatures, and projects under construction.

Physical Demands

• Sitting/Standing: This role is generally sedentary performing sitting work utilizing technological office equipment including a laptop, mouse, keyboard, computer monitors, telephones, scanners, and copiers.
• Walking: This role requires the ability to move about inside the office to access technological equipment required for the role. During site visits, this role requires the ability to traverse various project sites and buildings that will have uneven surfaces.
• Stooping/Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling: This role may require stooping to reload printer trays with print paper. During site visits, this role requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl to examine conditions and make recommendations to the clients for planning and improvements.
• Using Hands/Fingers: This role constantly operates technological office equipment such as laptop, mouse, keyboard, computer monitors, telephones, and scanners, copiers, and fax machines.
• Talking/Hearing: This role requires constant communication with others in the organization to exchange information, review information, and make decisions about information.
• Seeing: This role requires the ability to view text and line work on a computer screen, information in printed form, and existing project sites examining information to determine and make recommendations to the clients for planning and improvements.
• Carrying/Lifting: This role requires the ability to lift up to 20lbs to transport technological office equipment to and from various workspaces. 

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Native American Hiring Preference

Our parent company, Mno-Bmadsen, prefers to hire Pokagon citizens who are qualified and suitable for available positions. For purposes of this section, “qualified” means that the applicant meets the technical and experiential needs for employment; and “suitable” means that the candidate appears to be the best fit considering present circumstances and conditions. Targeted preference is in the following order:

• First, to qualified Pokagon Band citizens; and
• Second, to qualified spouses, and qualified custodial parents; and
• Third, to other qualified Native Americans; and
• Fourth, to all other qualified applicants

Any determinations as to the applicability of the Pokagon hiring preference are at the discretion of each Company President.

Reporting Branch: Buildings Services

Reporting Entity: Blue Star Integrative Studio

Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Exempt

Hours Per Week: 40

Reporting Status: Hybrid (Tulsa, OK Office)

Reports To: Studio Director

Manages Others: No

Overnight Travel: Less than 15% Annually