Project Manager - L.A.

SUMMARY:

The Fire Sprinkler 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
• Knowledge of and ability to find and interpret all applicable fire and building codes

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

*Duties and responsibilities may be changed at any time*

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

A Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university is preferred. Candidates with related experience and training or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS:

This job does not require traveling. Should a personal vehicle be needed for company use during the workday, a mileage reimbursement expense form must be submitted.