The Service Department 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
- Consistently brings projects in on time and on or below budget.
- Excels in pre-planning for projects, communication with others, and responsiveness.
- 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*
Education And Experience
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or one to two years’ related experience and training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Qualifications
- Work experience as an Assistant Project Manager, or similar role.
- Ability to multitask.
- 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
- Sitting: Sitting at a desk for the majority of the day.
- Handling: Seizes, helps, or works with hands.
- Lifting: Raises or lowers miscellaneous paperwork.
- Reaching: Extends hands and arms in any direction.
- Vision: Read computers and paperwork.
- Stooping: Bends body downward and forward by bending at knees or waist.
- Standing: Remains in a standing position if required to perform various functions of the job.
- Talking: Communicating by phone and in person.
- 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.
