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Dewberry is seeking a Deputy Project Manager in Birmingham, AL. In this role, you'll lead projects and client relationships from concept through construction, helping clients bring their visions to life while delivering exceptional engineering solutions. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, proactively address challenges, and ensure projects meet client expectations, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements. Beyond project delivery, you'll play an important role in growing the practice by expanding existing relationships, developing new business opportunities, and building the trust that fosters the long-term relationships that create a true "Client for life" experience.
For nearly four decades, MEPS South, an engineering division of Dewberry Engineers Inc, has delivered engineering excellence across Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Our team is trusted by educational institutions, healthcare systems, and public-sector clients to solve complex challenges and design projects that strengthen the communities we serve. We're looking for engineers, designers, and technical leaders who are passionate about solving complex challenges, collaborating with talented professionals, and continuously growing their skills. Whether you're launching your career or bringing years of experience, you'll find opportunities to learn, lead, and make a meaningful impact while helping build a better future for the communities we serve in MEPS South.
Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.
- Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
- Primary responsibility for the approval and oversight of design and construction documents within the applicable area of progressive technical experience, including signing and sealing of documents as Engineer or Record.
- Prepare detailed personnel loading by task, interfaced with the detailed schedule.
- Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan, and assign appropriate personnel.
- Prepare storyboards and a detailed project timeline.
- Organize and maintain the project design folder.
- Document meetings and telephone conversations.
- Provide quality control to ensure that all the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
- Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
- Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
- Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities.
- Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are, in fact, reflected in the drawings and specifications.
- Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
- Arrange and attend pre-bid conferences and issue meeting minutes and addenda.
- Conduct bid openings and prepare / issue certified bid tabulation. Coordinate as required to ensure the CA phase of the project always puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client.
- Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
- Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP building services practice.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.- Accomplished Professional Engineer (PE) with 5+ years of experience preferred.
- Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA contracts.
- Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- Well organized, with good understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.
At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity 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.
Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.
Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.
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Dewberry is seeking a Deputy Project Manager in Birmingham, AL. In this role, you'll lead projects and client relationships from concept through construction, helping clients bring their visions to life while delivering exceptional engineering solutions. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, proactively address challenges, and ensure projects meet client expectations, schedules, budgets, and regulatory requirements. Beyond project delivery, you'll play an important role in growing the practice by expanding existing relationships, developing new business opportunities, and building the trust that fosters the long-term relationships that create a true "Client for life" experience.
For nearly four decades, MEPS South, an engineering division of Dewberry Engineers Inc, has delivered engineering excellence across Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Our team is trusted by educational institutions, healthcare systems, and public-sector clients to solve complex challenges and design projects that strengthen the communities we serve. We're looking for engineers, designers, and technical leaders who are passionate about solving complex challenges, collaborating with talented professionals, and continuously growing their skills. Whether you're launching your career or bringing years of experience, you'll find opportunities to learn, lead, and make a meaningful impact while helping build a better future for the communities we serve in MEPS South.
Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.
- Organize and direct frequent in-house design meetings.
- Primary responsibility for the approval and oversight of design and construction documents within the applicable area of progressive technical experience, including signing and sealing of documents as Engineer or Record.
- Prepare detailed personnel loading by task, interfaced with the detailed schedule.
- Coordinate with Design Discipline Managers to schedule, plan, and assign appropriate personnel.
- Prepare storyboards and a detailed project timeline.
- Organize and maintain the project design folder.
- Document meetings and telephone conversations.
- Provide quality control to ensure that all the clients' needs and requests have been accommodated. Ensure and coordinate among all the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
- Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions to Owner.
- Advise on project billing and assist in collections.
- Supervise and coordinate the submission of documents to the appropriate reviewing authorities.
- Coordinate the responses to reviews. Ensure that responses are, in fact, reflected in the drawings and specifications.
- Arrange for in-house quality review in a timely fashion.
- Arrange and attend pre-bid conferences and issue meeting minutes and addenda.
- Conduct bid openings and prepare / issue certified bid tabulation. Coordinate as required to ensure the CA phase of the project always puts Dewberry in positive standing with Client.
- Perform site visits, inspections activities as required to support the Construction Administration requirements.
- Assist with recruiting, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding new employees to support MEP building services practice.
Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.- Accomplished Professional Engineer (PE) with 5+ years of experience preferred.
- Knowledgeable of construction process, familiar with AIA contracts.
- Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
- Well organized, with good understanding of plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and life safety systems with general knowledge of applicable codes, national standards, client design standards, system operation, space requirements, and cost.
At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.
Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity 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.
Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.
Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.
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Who's Hiring
- M.C. Dean26
- WSP5
- RS&H4
- General Dynamics Mission Systems4
- Metropolitan Transportation Authority4
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in deputy project director jobs.
- 7 or more years of project management experience in a relevant industry
- PMP certification or equivalent project management credential
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets of significant scale
- Proficiency with project scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 or MS Project
- Strong stakeholder communication and executive reporting skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, public administration, or a related field
Tips for Your Deputy Project Director Job Search
Quantify your program delivery outcomes
Deputy project directors are judged on scope, schedule, and budget control. Your resume needs specific numbers: total contract value managed, percentage of projects delivered on time, and team size. Vague claims about leadership won't move your application past a screener.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists deputy project director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your resume to the sector
A deputy project director resume for a federal contractor reads differently than one for a hospital system. Emphasize compliance frameworks like FAR and DCAA for government roles, and accreditation or regulatory milestones for healthcare. Sector-blind resumes rarely advance past initial screening.
Signal readiness to step up to director
Hiring managers for this role want someone who can step into the director seat when needed. Highlight moments when you acted in an interim or fill-in capacity, led cross-functional steering committees, or drove decisions in the absence of senior leadership.
Prepare a structured conflict and risk example
Interviews for deputy project director roles almost always include a scenario question about a project that went off course. Prepare a clear, three-part answer: what broke down, the specific actions you took, and the measurable outcome you recovered to.
Negotiate scope and authority, not just compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify what direct reports you'll have, your signing authority for change orders, and how decisions escalate to the project director. These define your day-to-day effectiveness more than title alone and are negotiable before you sign.
Deputy Project Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most deputy project directors?
The companies hiring the most deputy project directors right now include M.C. Dean, WSP, and RS&H, with the largest share of openings in New York, Virginia, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is strongest in construction, infrastructure, and government contracting sectors.
How many deputy project director jobs are remote?
About 46% of deputy project director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the site-dependent nature of most project delivery roles. Program coordination, reporting, and stakeholder management functions are most likely to be performed remotely, while roles tied to active construction or facility operations typically require on-site presence.
How do you become a deputy project director?
Start by building several years of hands-on project management experience in your target industry, ideally progressing from project coordinator or manager to a senior or lead role. Earning a recognized credential like the PMP strengthens your candidacy. Take on scope that includes budget authority, subcontractor oversight, and direct client contact, then document outcomes in quantifiable terms when you apply.
Can you get hired as a deputy project director with limited senior experience?
It's possible if you've led complex projects end-to-end, even without the formal title. Employers in fast-growing sectors sometimes promote strong senior project managers who demonstrate readiness to step into deputy oversight duties. Focus your application on moments when you managed cross-functional teams, resolved escalations independently, and controlled project financials without day-to-day director supervision.
What does the deputy project director interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial screening call, a competency-based interview focused on past project delivery, and a final-round meeting with senior leadership or a panel. You'll likely be asked to walk through a project you led from initiation to closeout, explain how you handled schedule or budget pressure, and describe how you managed relationships with clients, regulators, or executive stakeholders.
Where can I find and apply to deputy project director jobs?
You can find and apply to deputy project director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one that fits.
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