Project Manager

Job Summary 

The Project Manager is responsible for providing departmental and jobsite support to ensure professional installation and achieve estimated gross profits. This role includes auditing all required documents prior to the start of work, ensuring the inclusion of all pertinent information, and informing personnel about the scope of work. The Project Manager will also perform project work as needed. 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Direct and monitor staff in the preparation of requisitions for materials, equipment, and subcontracts. Ensure timely cooperation of sales personnel as required. 
• Direct and monitor staff in the development, communication, and redemption of schedules, and monitor project schedules to ensure timely completion of work. 
• Ensure all equipment, materials, and subcontracts are ordered and delivered on time. Audit required documents prior to the start of work and establish guidelines to determine field labor requirements. 
• Keep staff informed of sales objectives and promote new business and upgrades to existing agreements. Support the sales force on calls as required. 
• Maintain a master schedule showing the status and future plans for all projects. Prepare monthly manpower forecasts. 
• Build rapport and productive working relationships with managers, supervisors, staff, field personnel, and other key contacts to influence decisions regarding purchasing, scheduling, installations, and work completion. 
• Maximize cost control by proper staffing, training, tools, test equipment, and systems, ensuring procedures are in place for cost-effective and high-quality work. 
• Monitor billings to ensure maximum cash flow and compliance with company standards. Ensure understanding of mechanical systems, appropriate codes, and industry standards, and secure necessary permits. 
• Regularly review operational policies and procedures, measure their effectiveness, identify problems, and recommend new methods or corrective actions. 
• Develop and implement programs to improve staff skills, both individually and as a group. 
• Instruct, direct, and monitor staff in applying cost/benefit principles to maximize resource utilization, maintaining estimated budget goals. 
• Build and maintain a network of contacts for potential recruits and sources and provide support for special projects as assigned by the manager. 

 

Experience/Education 

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or five plus years of related supervisory experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Proficiency in reading, analyzing, and interpreting general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. 
• Strong written communication skills to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. 
• Effective oral communication skills to present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the general public. 
• Basic mathematical skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the application of fractions, ratios, and percentages. 
• Competence in using inventory software, scheduling software, internet software, spreadsheet software (Excel), and word processing software. 
• Competent understanding of mechanical systems and ability to identify problems and propose cost-effective solutions. 
• A valid state driver’s license or the ability to obtain one by the start of employment. 

Physical Demands / Working Conditions 

• Work is performed mostly in an outdoor setting with some tasks in an office environment. 
• Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment. 
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. 
• Frequently required to stand, talk or hear, walk, sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and smell. 
• Occasionally required to lift up to fifty (50) pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. 
• Normally works in outside weather conditions, near moving mechanical parts, and in high, precarious places. 
• Exposure to wet and humid conditions, airborne particles, and confined spaces.