Project Manager, Fire Protection

Job Summary

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of responsibility and main contact for both the business and the customer throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform all project management functions to promote and finalize sales, including concept engineering, estimating, creating written proposals, and leading meetings.
• Successfully manage all aspects of contracts, including sales, estimating, procurement, and execution as well as coordinate field labor and installation sequencing between the customer and field leadership.
• Manage financial aspects of the job by forecasting, preparing budget projections, controlling costs, billing, and monitoring job costs.
• Generate essential documentation for good business procedures and legal protection, including letters, proposals, memos, contracts, and change orders.
• Build and maintain cordial relationships with external clients, vendors, subcontractors, and industry partners.
• Provide internal leadership and project coordination across all departments, including Engineering, Purchasing, Accounting, Construction, and Service.
• Provide leadership and coordinate assigned staff across all internal departments throughout the project lifecycle to successfully deliver the contracted scope and meet customer requirements.
• Lead effective communication by consulting with management, attending sales and construction meetings, and coordinating pre-construction kickoff meetings.
• Act as a mentor by recruiting, training, and coaching staff, while contributing to special studies, committees, and other duties directed by management.

Position Requirements (Work Experience, Skills, Licenses, Etc.)

• Ability to operate independently and autonomously to facilitate goals outlined by your supervisor.
• Demonstrate a corresponding high sense of integrity.
• Demonstrated experience/ability to develop new business.
• Strong interpersonal and project management abilities, employing strong organizational skills to respond successfully to a high volume of issues.
• Maintain a community presence in an industry-based or community-based organization.

Required Education and Experience

• BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in estimating, design, and/or management of HVAC projects from $50,000 to $25+ million.

ACCO Competencies

• Proactivity/Initiative: Recognizes what needs to be done and accomplishes it in a manner appropriate for one’s level/position and with minimal supervision.
• Perseverance: Shows wherewithal to fight for difficult goals despite challenges and to bounce back from adversity.
• Motivation/Dedication: Commits to excellence in pursuing unselfish goals. Initiates action with collective goals, takes responsibility, and shows personal humility.
• Technical Curiosity/Willingness to Learn: Interest in seeking out new experiences, knowledge, and candid feedback; demonstrating an openness to learning and change.
• Insight: The ability to gather and make sense of information that suggests new possibilities.
• Engagement: Shows a knack for using emotion and logic to communicate a persuasive vision and connect with people.
• People Skills: Is approachable and gains the mutual trust and respect of others. Understands people’s strengths & weaknesses and actively seeks to understand other perspectives.
• Communication: Fosters open, honest, candid and respectful communication. Effectively assesses, defines and communicates issues in a timely manner, both written and verbal.
• Teamwork: The ability to effectively work toward common goals with others by supporting, encouraging, and sharing information in an authentic and approachable manner.
• Big Picture: Understands and contributes to the organizations’ short- and long-term business strategy. On a personal level has independently developed a vision for short- and long-term career success.
• Problem-Solver: Ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems in support of personnel, group, department, or organizational objectives.
• Execution: Effectively takes a vision and translates into action by including the right people. Identify and remove barriers, when possible, to achieve results. Demonstrates appropriate compromise, effective time management, prioritization practices and holds team members (including themselves) accountable for their performance/conduct.
• Professionalism: Respectfully observes and challenges the status quo with intent for improvement. Can take direction, accept feedback, and take full responsibility for their actions. Lead by example through positive influence and ethical leadership with consideration of the entire organization.

About Us

• ACCO Engineered Systems is one of the largest mechanical contractors in the country.
• Since 1934, owners and builders have selected ACCO to design, install, and maintain more than 250,000 mechanical projects.
• ACCO is dedicated to the design, fabrication, installation, maintenance and service of commercial and industrial HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, process piping, and building automation systems.
• Whether your project is a low or high-rise office building, a shopping mall, hospital, semi-conductor fabrication facility or pharmaceutical manufacturing plant…ACCO can design, build, install, and maintain a mechanical system to meet your needs.
• Here at ACCO, we are a part of something bigger. Just ask our customers: California Academy of Sciences, L.A. Live, and San Francisco 49ers Stadium.
• While we have been around for 80+ years, we continue to grow at a dynamic pace. And we are looking for talented individuals to join our team.

Equal Employment Opportunity

• ACCO is an equal opportunity employer.
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