The Role
Manages technical installation projects from pre-order planning through completion. Responsibilities include coordinating designs, site visits, installation companies, clients, general contractors, deliveries, supply-chain issues, safety requirements, punch lists, vendor relationships, project meetings, and invoicing requests. The role identifies project risks, resolves issues, maintains project documentation, and ensures successful installations while managing multiple concurrent projects.
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Job Summary:
Project Managers provide technical project management support for the sales efforts of the company. This role is critical in retaining profitability and solving complex issues that occur throughout a project. Project managers are accountable to ensuring the overall success of a project’s installation. They are responsible for finding potential threats to success early and finding solutions.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Pre-order
- Communicate the project scope and requirements to the installation companies and request labor quotes.
- Perform site visits to confirm site infrastructure, details, requirements and communicate to the team.
- Review proposed product applications and communicate in project team meeting findings to ensure proper functionality.
- Assist in the preliminary and final tagging of the product lines in Kham.
- Review approved design development downloads from design.
- Post-order
- Review preliminary and final core plans from design as required.
- Lead and coordinate pre-install meetings with all parties involved.
- Schedule installations with the clients or GC’s and communicate to the team.
- Communicate and ensure the installation companies’ compliance with all safety training, badging, and other project requirements.
- Receive PlanGrid file from PC and upload necessary files as the project progresses.
- Manage and coordinate all manufacture deliveries at site with the installation companies.
- Continually review the product shipment status, LTL’s, shortages, and delays from manufacturers and communicate to the team.
- Perform preliminary punch list walkthrough with installation companies to remedy all on-site issues prior to formal punch with client.
- Perform formal punch list walkthrough with client and communicate with PC all product issues required to be rectified.
- Perform site visits as required, identifying any short shipments, damages, wrong product, and communicate to PC’s for service notification submittals to the manufacturers.
- Ongoing
- Create and maintain strong working relationships with installation and product vendors.
- Attend weekly status report meetings to review active projects with the team.
- Attend client and GC meetings as required and communicate to team the project status.
- Obtain COI’s from installation companies and forward copies to finance.
- Review weekly backlogs and send invoicing requests to finance for product and service invoicing.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university; or two plus years of related experience in project management in a contract office furniture dealership.
- Required skills
- Excellent technical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills in communication
- Understanding of how to manage complex supply chain
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once
- Preferred skills
- PlanGrid
- Project Spec
- Adobe Acrobat
- Good knowledge of MS Office and proficient in Excel.
- High level of product knowledge
- High level of independence – able to work with minimal supervision
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, or two or more years of related project management experience in a contract office furniture dealership
- Excellent technical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Understanding of complex supply chain management
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience with PlanGrid
- Experience with Project Spec
- Experience with Adobe Acrobat
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and proficiency in Excel
- High level of product knowledge
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 1981, Furniture Marketing Group (FMG) is a privately held, family-owned office furniture dealership with a national presence and deep Texas roots. FMG serves as the link between space and people in the working world, providing sustainable product, process, and service solutions. With access to over 400 contract furniture manufacturers, they support clients ranging from small companies to large corporate accounts with complex facility needs.
