project manager

[proj-ekt man-i-jer]

noun

1. a person who is in charge of the planning, execution, and completion of a particular project, or of projects generally at a particular organization.

   His new job is project manager at a software company.

   A project manager will be needed to carry out the planned rehabilitation of the storm-damaged housing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of project manager¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Her husband Matthew, an oil industry project manager, grew up in the town.

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Over the phone, she explained: “I think the pandemic made a lot of people rethink how they do holidays. For us, that meant a real, official family meeting last year, led by my project manager dad, complete with a ‘dessert survey.’

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“Being a contractor, a designer and a project manager for many years, she knew what to do and how to do it quickly. … She’s a force of nature,” said her husband, Bobby Lujan, a musician and brother of the late Chicano artist Gilbert “Magu” Lujan.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian national and charity project manager, had been visiting Iran with her daughter Gabriella when she was arrested in 2016.

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"For cancer, this message will stimulate the patient's ability to effectively fight tumours," Dimitri Szymczak, project manager of French research institute INSERM's ART lab in Orleans, told AFP.

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