PROJECT MANAGER III

Responsible for taking a direct leadership role in accomplishing the mission and expanding the business unit through successful project management. Oversees all aspects of project management through Commissioning levels 1-5, including client management, project team leadership, financial oversight, and business growth.

Responsibilities

• Acts as Competent Person managing safety on projects, ensuring team members complete project-specific safety training, Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), and weekly toolbox training.
• Utilizes company accounting, project management, and resource planning systems to forecast project resource requirements, billing projections, and expenses.
• Proactively resolves resource conflicts and updates project information as it becomes available.
• Manages project finances, including budgeting, estimating, value engineering, and client budgetary expectations throughout the project cycle.
• Identifies and explains financial variances, advising clients of potential change orders due to scope variances.
• Creates and manages an overall milestone schedule incorporating owner, design, and construction team activities.
• Leads and supervises multiple project team members, including project managers, client representatives, vendors, contractors, and end users in design-build scenarios.
• Completes project opening and close-out processes, including commissioning reports, as-built documentation, operations/maintenance manuals, and lessons learned.
• Maintains proprietary information confidentiality during client communications.
• Develops proposals and credentials for new project opportunities and expands current service offerings for clients.
• Manages document control and ensures constant communication with project stakeholders (e.g., client, construction, and design teams).
• Mentors and supervises field technical staff and other project resources.
• Manages transitions for new clients and new CxE relationships, as well as diversity of CxE levels across projects.
• Trains and develops PM-2 level and below employees in technical concepts and advanced project management strategies.
• Identifies professional development opportunities for self and supervised employees.
• Represents the company at business development functions and maintains a positive outward projection.
• Supervises subordinate supervisors and oversees Operations resources, including training, planning, assigning work, performance appraisals, and resolving problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) from a four-year college or university, or eight to ten years of related experience/training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Valid driver’s license and passport.
• First responder (first aid + CPR) certification (company-provided).
• OSHA 30 or local jurisdiction equivalent (company-provided).
• NFPA 70E – Arc flash training (company-provided).
• Code of ethics training (company-provided).
• Additional safety training (company-provided).

Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret contract documents, technical project documentation, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to present information effectively and tailor responses to audiences, including managers, clients, peers, and technical field staff.
• Proficiency in mathematical concepts such as probability, statistical inference, geometry, trigonometry, and practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions.
• Strong reasoning ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret complex technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, accounting, scheduling, and project management software.
• Mastery of the psychrometric chart, energy transfers (heat, hydronic, air, electricity, kinetic), and Ohm’s law.
• Knowledge of contracts and Scope of Work (SOW) for managed projects.
• Ability to monitor and assess performance of self and others.
• Strong time management, active listening, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel by car and airplane, with up to 2 contiguous weeks of travel (not exceeding 50% of annual occupational hours).
• Ability to motivate, develop, and direct people, and provide fair, objective feedback.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including awareness of others’ reactions and adaptability.
• Leadership, delegation, and persuasiveness in driving team goals.
• Drive for personal accomplishment and continuous self-development.
• Skills in problem analysis, judgement, decisiveness, planning, organization, follow-up, and stress tolerance.

Physical Demands

Offsite Work Environment:

• Regularly required to use hands, stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Requires close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Noise level in the home or company office environment is usually quiet.

Onsite Work Environment:

• Regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions, moving mechanical components, and energized electrical components.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold/heat (non-weather), and risk of electrical shock.
• Noise level at project sites is usually loud, requiring hearing protection.

Schedule

This position may require working more than 8 hours per day and potentially on weekends, depending on project assignments.