Overview:
The Project Manager accepts profit and loss responsibility and accountability for the execution of all project contracts and customer accounts as assigned by Alterman management. The Project Manager carries out project tasks safely, at the highest quality and lowest cost.
Essential Functions:
1. Account Management: 10%
- Takes ownership and responsibility for assigned accounts and ensures long term customer/account satisfaction, opportunities, and revenue growth.
- Evaluates bidding, material buyouts, and negotiating opportunities of assigned accounts.
- Maintains effective communications with appropriate Alterman personnel, keeping them informed of all aspects relevant to the duties to which they have been assigned.
- Communicates with other departments for cross selling opportunities.
- Timely informs the Senior Project Manager or Director, where applicable, of any significant problems encountered and provides recommended solutions.
2. Project Planning: 10%
- Works in conjunction with the Preconstruction and Project Support group, taking a proactive approach to project planning to maximize profit opportunities.
- Leads project kick off meetings and work sessions with estimating and support groups.
- Prepares breakdown of estimate to utilize the Labor Analysis Workflow (LAW) Standard Operating Procedures.
- Reviews plans and specifications.
- Ensures appropriate safety programs are initiated.
3. Project Management (Office): 30%
- Manages assigned projects in accordance with Alterman’s procedures and policies.
- Completes project startup procedures, including:
- Making projections, budgeting, and performing job cost entry for materials, labor, subcontracts, LAW, Packaged Alterman Construction Kits (PACK), and Direct Job Expenses (DJE).
- Project scheduling for construction, material release(s), labor, and cash flow.
- Interpreting contracts and providing input to proposed project team.
- Leads 25-50-75-90-100% project review meetings and prepares meeting documentation for small and midsized projects. Performs monthly project review meetings for large scale projects.
- Prepares agenda and runs internal meetings as needed.
- Establishes the project schedule of values for fixed sum contracts and assists in billing preparation and billing projections for fee-based projects.
- Prepares accurate job cost projections regularly as directed.
- Prepares change order proposals and quotations.
- Reviews, requests, or creates quotations and bills of materials.
- Reviews and processes shop drawings.
- Prepares major purchase orders while following appropriate pricing and scope evaluations.
- Maintains material files (purchase orders, memos, quotes, shop drawings, test reports, action item list, field record drawings, etc.).
- Coordinates with Purchasing to procure and coordinate delivery of materials to the project while achieving the project material budgets.
- Arranges for the selection and placement of key supervisory personnel in coordination with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent. Evaluates performance of personnel and addresses deficiencies.
- Coordinates with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent to achieve the project labor budget.
- Completes project close out procedures, including:
- Addressing items on the punch list, signoff, final billing, retainage, collections, warranty, returns, closing purchase orders open commitments, finalizing record documents, final AHJ inspections, and updating project description and Operation and Maintenance Manuals.
- Scheduling and leading project close out meetings and preparing close out documents.
4. Project Management (Field): 15%
- Completes project startup procedures including making projections and interpreting contracts and providing input to proposed project team.
- Project Development:
- Attends on site project meetings.
- Prepares accurate job cost projections regularly as directed.
- Reviews and processes shop drawings.
- Arranges for the selection and placement of key supervisory personnel in coordination with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent. Evaluates performance of personnel and addresses deficiencies.
- Coordinates with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent to achieve the project labor budget.
- Completes project close out procedures, including addressing items on the punch list and updating Operation and Maintenance Manuals.
5. Oversees and provides support to direct reports to ensure that their job responsibilities are being fulfilled. Conducts regular performance reviews. 15%
6. Works with the department director or Senior Project Manager to identify critical path activities of this position and prepares process documentation, when directed. If approved, ensures that other staff members understand the processes and can provide adequate support for the critical path activities. Reviews documentation on an annual basis and makes necessary adjustments to reflect current processes. 10%
7. Performs other duties as assigned. 10%
Education and Experience:
- Must meet the minimum requirements of one of the following pathways:
- Outside Lineman Apprenticeship Completion or similar/equivalent, 2 years’ experience in a field supervisory position, and successful completion of the 2-year Assistant Project Manager program.
- Associate degree in Business Management, Construction Management or Construction Engineering and successful completion of the 2-year Assistant Project Manager program.
- 2 years’ experience as a Project Manager in the electrical substation, transmission, or distribution construction industry.
- Must possess knowledge of high voltage substations and associated equipment, understand transmission and distributions systems and the relationship to a substation, and MV underground, switchgear, and transformers.
Skills/Abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective reasoning and judgement skills.
- Proficient with or able to learn how to use Primavera, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Suite, accounting software, estimating software, and other required systems and software.
- Able to read and interpret all contract documents, plans, specifications, and requirements.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Able to capitalize on project opportunities.
- Able to maintain working knowledge of trade terms, materials, methods, codes, contract and specification language, and bidding methods.
- Possesses and maintains knowledge of the National Electric Code, electrical engineering fundamentals, purchasing and buying processes, and accounting concepts.
- Able to complete continuous education courses and trainings as required.
Work Environment:
- Office environment with some travel required.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; must be able to reach with hands and arms. Manual dexterity associated with computer data entry required.
- Must be able to talk and hear.
- Must be able to frequently sit.
- Must be able to occasionally stand, walk, climb, balance, crouch or crawl, stoop, and kneel.
- Must be able to safely operate a vehicle to travel to and from job sites.
- Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
- Must be able to safely maneuver in a construction environment.
- Close vision, distance vision, color vision, and depth perception are required.
