Project Manager II

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Yesco Core Values

• Embodies the core values of the YESCO and serves as a role model for others as well as a recognized team player. Understands and complies with organizational policies and procedures.

Integrity:

• Reliably delivers on promises and honor commitments. Upholds ethical and social norms of the organization consistently in actions and decisions. Treats people fairly by maintaining consistent values and performance standards.

Judgment: 

• Consistently uses appropriate strategies to achieve objectives, considering the situation, issues and persons involved. Reaches sound decisions and takes an appropriate course of action.

Self-confidence: 

• Consistently willing to state and defend ideas while recognizing other options. Have the confidence required to stand alone when this is the best course. 

Flexibility: 

• Consistently demonstrates sensitivity to the organizational environment. Tolerate ambiguity, shift priorities, change style and respond with new approaches as needed to deal with the demands of changed conditions.

Initiative: 

• Consistently and actively attempt to influence events. Seek opportunities to originate action. Take action beyond explicit requests and approach work in an optimistic manner. Be a self-starter. Look for ways to overcome obstacles.

Leadership: 

• Champions YESCO services and products. 
• Demonstrates a positive attitude.
• Accepts responsibility for failures and learns from mistakes.
• Exercise influence on the organization when needed, even without direct authority.
• Manages internal and external relationships in ways that promote the best interests of all parties.
• Actively involves others and creates an atmosphere of trust that fosters team spirit and cohesion.
• Motivates others to keep the project moving toward successful completion even in the face of the physical demands of aggressive project schedules and demands. 
• Contributes to specialty teams and or task groups. 

Communication:

• Develop a communications plan detailing who will receive information, what information they will receive, and when and in what format they will receive it. Also, decide how the information will be gathered and stored.
• Determine the information and communication needs of stakeholders: who needs what information, when they need it and how it should be provided.
• Present complex issues clearly, credibly and effectively by using a communication style appropriate to the situation.
• Brief listeners by collecting appropriate information, organizing it and presenting the level of detail to inform all stakeholders.
• Instruct staff after gaining a clear understanding of the issue.
• Run an effective meeting.

Nature of work:

• With some supervision, performs a wide variety of relatively complex  work, ensuring schedule, budget and performance requirements are met.
• Oversees project budget and schedule, and takes responsibility for the proper completion.
• Consistently develops, schedules, plans projects and delivers required results on time and at/or under budget.
• Able to perform multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Manages all aspects of moderately complex medium- to large-scale projects.
• Takes initiative to analyze where there is a need and possible options.  Analyzes a diverse range of issues, opportunities or problems. 
• Diagnoses, takes risks and thinks about what may happen next and what others may need to know, and creates innovative solutions effectively, determines approaches and options to solving problems. 

General:

• Under general direction, prepare a project schedule baseline plan that accurately reflects tasks, time estimates and resources (including personnel, technology and equipment) associated with each task.
• Understand client needs and define the scope of the project, in order to correctly and effectively determine specifications and allocate resources.
• Identify and address risks and determine best solution.
• Conclude the project when all requirements have been met.
• Do a post-project audit and ensure that the project was completed timely and within budget.
• Ensure prompt payments based on factors such as deliverables, milestones, time or other accomplishments, as per the agreement.
• When finished, close out the contract; resolve open items and ensure payment.

Initiating & Planning:

• Review scope of project with supervisor and work together to develop schedule/project plan.
• Determine what type and quantity of resources — such as people and equipment — are needed to complete the project activities.

Executing:

• Execute the project plan to ensure the project’s scope, time and cost are all managed. Monitor and compare progress against the baseline plan. Recognize when the project is seriously deviating from the baseline.
• Coordinate and manage business, organizational, technological and resource changes that affect the entire project.
• Manage the vendor relationship to ensure open lines of communication and to make it easier to resolve problems.
• Regularly generates moderately complex project report and ensures timely and appropriate generation, dissemination, storage and ultimate disposal of project information.

Monitoring & Controlling:

• Control scope changes that affect the project schedule.
• Consistently process change orders and required documentation timely and accurately. React to changes as appropriate.
• Regularly conduct quality assurance activities to ensure that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards.  Reviews identified issues with supervisor to determine best course of action if no protocol currently exists.
• Manage the quality and adherence to the project plan and actively process and assume a lead role in securing legitimate change orders.

Authority exercised:

• Under general direction, works with established protocols, seeking assistance with complex/difficult problems.   
• Independent and partly complex tasks solved primarily through own decision making.

Direction received:

• The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities and deadlines, and assists the employee with unusual situations that do not have clear objectives.  
• Receives guidance and oversight from supervisor.

Creativity and ingenuity required:

• Applies acquired expertise to analyze and solve problems without clear precedent
• Exercises discretion in selecting protocols to use. May recommend revisions to established protocols.
• This is not a remote position. The selected applicant will spend time on job sites, in the office and in the shop.

Responsibility for assets and information:

• Protects confidential information and proprietary processes. Handles materials and company equipment in a responsible and efficient manner.

Responsibility for the work of others:

• May provide training to others as needed
• Provides technical direction to the project team; assists in training other project managers. Hold team members and outside contractors to delivery commitments.
• Results are primarily achieved through the work of others and typically depend on the managers ability to influence and negotiate with parts of the organization where formal managerial authority is not provided.

Potential Impact: 

• Erroneous decisions may cause loss of revenue, excessive costs and/or customer dissatisfaction.

Education/formal training & work experience required:

• Associates degree in Project Management plus/or a minimum of 6 to 10 years professional experience within the electric sign trade or equivalent experience and training. Project management and/or supervisory experience required.
• Strong construction experience of of at least 5 years or more.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; 
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills;
• Solid time management skills;
• Competent in conflict and crisis management.
• Solid Knowledge of building products, construction details and relevant rules, regulations and quality standards, contract administration, and records management.
• Strong leadership skills, the ability to set and stick to a schedule, analytical thinking, and an orientation toward getting things done
• Strong math and budgeting skills.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite & Microsoft Project, Google Mail and other communication applications.
• Use automated tools, such as Gantt charts, to schedule the work.
• Strong knowledge of specific Yesco products and procedures being learned on the job in any Yesco departments, multiple exposure to each YESCO companies.
• Intro to Project Management //Project Manager BootCamp
• Attend current classes teaching the latest construction industry's contract structure and what a sub contractor PM needs to recognize and address these in contracts.
• Attend continuing education courses either within YESCO or externally, as approved by HR and management

We maintain a drug free workplace. We do test for marijuana. Young Electric Sign Company is an EEO/AA employer.  We welcome all qualified jobseekers.  Jobseekers will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion or other legally protected status.