Project Manager

Summary

Manage projects to meet schedule and budget commitments while maintaining relationships with the client, subcontractor and vendors during the design, manufacturing and installation phases of the project.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Review project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.

Establishes and maintains good relationship with customers during installations.

Creates bid specifications for outside vendors as needed. Select vendors as needed and approve invoices from same.

Establishes work plan and resource needs for each phase of project.

Directs and coordinates activities of internal and external resources to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.

Maintains ongoing communication with customers regarding project progress.

Reviews job progress and modifies schedules or plans as required.

Prepare project reports for management, clients or others.

Develops costs associated with change orders for sales review and handling of change orders.

Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.

Travels as needed to review progress, resolve problems, attend client meetings and obtain project signoffs when required.

Prepares and distributes written reports as required by project specifications.

Other duties as assigned.

Note: Will be given a laptop and a cellphone.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Must be able to read blueprints and installation drawings.

Must be computer literate; a plus if they know Microsoft project and can-do Gant charts.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s Degree (BA) or Bachelor Science (BS) from four-year college or university, or seven to ten years experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. MBA is desirable.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Other Skills and Abilities

Customer relationship skills, computer skills, communication skills, engineering skills, drafting skills, business, management, travel skills.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essentials of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is required to travel outside the plant to customer sites.