Project Manager

Position Summary:

The Project manager is a self-starter who is capable of operating without direct supervision or guidance with respect to overseeing and providing consulting services with respect to the overall direction of work orders and client satisfaction. The Project Manager plays a critical role in providing services that facilitate and support client operations. The Project Manager will handle the lifecycle of client projects by planning, scheduling, budgeting and maintaining close contact with the client and their needs. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several major and minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Establishes and/or provides advice to management regarding practices, templates, policies, tools, standards, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization. 
• Provides consulting services to clients with respect to facility and property management. 
• Managing any direct reports of Project Coordinators by overseeing their work orders and providing additional guidance and training as needed.
• Initiate and maintain liaison with owners and other contacts to facilitate project activities.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes for numerous projects simultaneously to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Proactively develop relationships with the subcontractor community. 
• Consult with and advise management on all aspects of project management, client projects, and deliverables to clients. 
• Leverages industry expertise to negotiate contract terms with subcontractors and clients. 
• Creates and directs project schedules, budgets, costs, bids, and materials.
• Authorizes change orders, discounts, and changes in pricing consistent with client needs and market conditions. 
• Investigates, resolves, and troubleshoots issues related to client projects, including but not limited to quality control, budgeting, and timeliness. 
• Secures, hires, oversees, and terminates sub-contractors. 
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills/Traits/Competencies

• Effective Communicator: Works effectively with people outside formal authority to accomplish goals. Consistently communicates with clarity and thoroughness to optimize audience understanding. Communicates information in a clear, concise, and timely manner. Demonstrates effective speaking and presentation skills.
• Peer Relationships: Easily gains trust and support of peers and encourages collaboration. Represents his/her own interest while being fair to other groups; seen as a team player; quickly finds common ground and solves problems for the good of all; is candid with peers.
• Collaboration/Relationship Building: Develops and maintains effective working relationships with team members, internal partners, customers and other through the use of strong interpersonal skills. Obtains cooperation from others; seeks and encourages win-win alternatives. Works effectively with people outside formal authority to accomplish goals
• Problem Solving: Asks good questions and probes all sources for answers; sees underlying or hidden patterns; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers. Uses rigorous logic and methods to analyze and understand why problems occur; generates and implements creative, cost effective and realistic solutions.
• Project Management: Effectively uses the company's systematic approach to planning, organizing, directing, supervising and accomplishing the goals of a project(s) requirements and activities to meet objectives. Includes balancing the task requirements within the constraints of schedules and budgets.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• EAP
• STD/LTD
• Basic Life and AD&D
• Voluntary Life
• Supplemental: Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
• Cell Phone Stipend
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays

Watterson is an Equal Employment Opportunity and E-Verify employer.

Disclaimer: This job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or competencies. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description based on business need.

Experience/Education/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in facilities management, engineering, or property management. (preferred)
• High school diploma or equivalent. 
• At least 4 years of work experience, with a minimum of 2 years’ of project management experience, ideally managing people. 

Physical Requirements

• Ability to perform the essential functions of the position in an office or job-site environment.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position and/or move throughout the workplace as needed.
• Ability to operate standard office and job-related equipment.
• Ability to occasionally reach, bend, kneel, climb, and lift or move items weighing up to 20 pounds.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.