Assistant Product Manager II

About the role

The Assistant Product Manager II assists the Project Manager with TAS projects, focusing on turnkey construction projects to ensure on-budget, on-schedule performance. They serve as the customer advocate, ensuring accurate and timely delivery, and play a proactive role in identifying and resolving issues affecting project performance.

Responsibilities

• Manages major tasks or functions of a project
• Serves as frequent customer and internal resource interface at the technical and commercial task level
• Determines cradle-to-grave project schedules
• May manage small projects with a contract value up to $5M, with support and mentoring by a PM or Sr. PM
• Performs other tasks as assigned by TAS

Job Skills

• Sound knowledge of business management principles, practices, and procedures
• Strong negotiations skills
• Proven ability to complete PM tasks on multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong contract management skills/experience
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills
• Ability to set priorities and work independently
• Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals being proactive; generating innovative solutions in work situations
• Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards, including NEC, ANSI, ASME, API, and OSHA
• Broad technical proficiency across HVAC principles, civil/structural/mechanical design, power wiring, controls architecture, and modular system design and manufacturing
• Proficiency in MS Office, MS Project, and database tools

Education & Training

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited four-year engineering program (plus)
• P.C. or PE, or PMP license/certification (plus)
• A substitution of military leadership and/or technical work experience will be considered in lieu of an engineering degree (plus)

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Project Engineering or Project Management
• Familiarity with packaged equipment (preferred)
• Project experience in a similar role with activities on a project or directly supporting the activities of a project, ideally within modular data center infrastructure or power systems environments (plus)
• Project cost estimating, project management, construction management experience (plus)

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Position is at least 80% to 95% at a desk working with a computer
• Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
• Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions
• Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading
• The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions

Company Overview

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company. TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities. TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery. With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals.

Important Notice

TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. "Smoking" and "tobacco or nicotine products" includes, but is not limited to, products such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes.