Project Manager

SUMMARY:

The TI Project Manager interacts with the customer or General Contractor, Designers, Field Supervisors, Purchasing, Accounting, Estimating, Fire departments, and AHJ, as well as upper management.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strives to be proficient in pre-planning for projects, communication with others, and responsiveness.
• Learns to bring projects in on time and on or below budget.
• Able to create, negotiate, & execute a schedule of values.
• Read and negotiate the scope of work for service and construction contracts.
• Provides information and clarifies his/her workers and others around them.
• Builds and maintains a professional, positive relationship with the customer.
• Steadily follows up and follows through on their responsibilities and duties.
• Where predetermined standard(s) are unavailable, make an estimate.
• Attends departmental meetings as required.
• Must possess excellent collaboration skills, communication skills, ethical conduct, time management skills, and, most importantly, be very thorough.
• Helps other departments accomplish their tasks more efficiently by providing good information.
• Read and negotiate the scope of work for service and construction contracts. 
• Literacy to read and comprehend blueprints, contracts, and submittals.
• Able to create, negotiate, & execute a schedule of values.
• Able to create change orders and purchase orders.

*Reliable and predictable attendance is required for the function of this job*

*Duties and responsibilities may be changed at any time*

QUALIFICATIONS:

• One to five years of Project Management experience.
• Work experience as an Assistant Project Manager, or similar role.
• Knowledge of NFPA 13, 13R, 14, 20
• Detail oriented.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
• Creative mind with superb written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to simplify complex information into a user-friendly format.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• A proven Self-Starter.
• Understands and practices Basic Business Leadership Principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Experience using accounting & project management software.

Physical Requirements:

1. Sitting: Sitting at a desk for the majority of the day.
2. Handling: Seizes, helps, or works with hands.
3. Lifting: Raises or lowers miscellaneous paperwork.
4. Reaching: Extends hands and arms in any direction.
5. Vision: Read computers and paperwork.
6. Stooping: Bends body downward and forward by bending at knees or waist.
7. Standing: Remains in a standing position if required to perform various functions of the job.
8. Talking: Communicating by phone and in person.
9. Walking and moving about on foot.

Interpersonal Skills:

Alternative or combined skills in understanding, counseling, and/or influencing people are important in achieving job objectives, causing action, understanding others, or changing behavior, and skills of persuasiveness or assertiveness, as well as sensitivity to the point of view of others.