The Project Manager provides leadership on assigned projects and acts to achieve financial, schedule, and client relationship objectives. The Project Manager plans and organizes all engineering functions specific to the project, coordinates client interaction between the project team and client, provides guidance on recommended manpower and technical resource loading.
Key Activities and responsibilities
- Holds primary responsibility for achievement of scope, cost, schedule and quality objectives on assigned projects.
- Ensures achievement of corporate goals for assigned projects.
- Attends pre-bid meetings with clients and prepares proposals in conjunction with department heads, directors and other key individuals.
- Actively assists in Design budget development.
- Manages client interaction on assigned projects and promotes positive relationships.
- Identifies risks to project and corporation and works with Project Executives and Director of Operations to mitigate risks.
- Responsible for project scope control and development/communication of all change notices to the client.
- Responsible/accountable for self and maybe 1-2 other people either through direct reporting relationship or influence
- Coordinates with project discipline leads to determine scope, complexity, and planning and scheduling requirements of the projects.
- Develops and maintains meeting minutes and Action Items/Needs List for each project.
- Develops and Maintains Project Execution Plan.
- Prepares internal monthly financial/schedule reports for the Director of Operations for each project.
- Prepares monthly financial/schedule reports for the Client as requested by the client.
- Enhances and facilitates project team communication and coordination.
- Responsible for management of all sub-consultants on the project.
- Must have the ability to run multiple simultaneous small projects. May also work with Sr. Project Managers or Directors on a larger project.
- Maintains personal competency in relevant professional areas.
- Maintains long-term industry relationships
- Assists in identifying, and developing innovative methods for improving project management processes and techniques against current SOPs.
- Strives for continuous improvement in all internal processes.
- Provides guidance and mentorship to project engineers.
- Accepts responsibility for things under direct control. Sees things going wrong and corrects them before problems arise.
- Identify areas of potential Innovation and improvement for the group.
- Other duties as assigned.
Context and environment and Safety
Travel based on the project location. Less than 25%.
This position is a safety sensitive position. The employee is designated for field work and attends activities at client sites where they work in construction, process, packaging, manufacturing, research or other "non-administrative" areas.
Required Education/Qualifications /Work experience
- A minimum of 5 years industry experience at least two (2) of which includes Project Management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture or planning.
- Progressive ability, capacity, and aptitude in administration to plan, organize, supervise, and coordinate technical work and to obtain cooperation from others.
- Fundamental level of scheduling skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical thinking, structured problem solving skills, excellent communications skills, team building and strong work ethic. Must be able to build rapport with project staff.
- Skilled in the use of IT tools, including spreadsheets, word processing, planning and scheduling software.
- Understanding of Earned Value and other project controls methods.
- Promotes Safety and adheres to IPS and client Safety policies.
Demonstrated Competencies
- Must exhibit an entrepreneurial spirit by consistently seeking new opportunities to add value to the organization. Must strive for excellence in all aspects of job performance.
- Must approach their work enthusiastically with a contagious energy and drive that shows everyone they love what they do.
- Must display creativity and innovation by continually working to improve solutions, tools, methods and service delivery system.
- Must conduct oneself with an uncompromising commitment to the welfare of our clients and each other. Must act in an ethical, professional and respectful manner at all times.
- Must exhibit the ability to build and sustain long term relationships of mutual value through teamwork.
- Must be driven to succeed and committed to goal attainment.
- Must have the ability to learn the needs of specific customers and build relationships.
