Project Manager (Public-Sector Consulting)

Location: United States (Remote); the listed job location is Mobile, Alabama, US.

Compensation: $103,532–$130,385 per year.

Company

Michael Baker International provides engineering and consulting services, including infrastructure design, planning, environmental, construction, and program management; the role supports Tidal Basin's disaster resilience and recovery practice.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary client contact and maintain governance, escalation, decision-making, reporting, and executive briefing processes.
• Develop and maintain project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, deliverable calendars, and communication protocols.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams and subcontractors, assign work, monitor performance, resolve constraints, and coordinate mobilization, onboarding, training, resource planning, and demobilization.
• Manage contract scope, task orders, amendments, change control, invoicing, compliance, financial indicators, forecasts, margin, and backlog.
• Maintain risk, issue, action, decision, dependency, and assumption logs and implement QA/QC controls.
• Ensure secure, confidential, audit-ready project records and identify process improvements, follow-on work, proposals, staffing strategies, and lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, engineering, planning, emergency management, or a related field.
• At least seven years of progressive project or program management experience, including multi-stakeholder delivery.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, schedules, teams, risks, and client communications.
• Professional communication, competing-priority management, deadline management, and accurate, well-organized work.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and ability to learn client and company systems.

Nice to have

• PMP or comparable credential.
• Federal grants, HUD, FEMA, housing, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or public-sector consulting experience.
• Experience leading subcontractors and geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary, or surge teams.
• Consulting experience supporting government clients or working in a regulated, deadline-driven environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote position supporting public-sector and disaster resilience programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan, HSA, FSA, commuter benefits, wellness benefits, and generous paid time off.
• Professional and personal development opportunities.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or no longer needed.

Hiring process

• Pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks are required.
• There is no current application deadline; applications remain open while the position is available.