Project Manager (Mission Critical/Data Center)

About the role

This Opportunity kW Mission Critical Engineering is currently initiating a search for a Project Manager for our kW office in Milwaukee, WI. As a Project Manager with us, you will lead a diverse group of engineers from project initiation through completion with minimal oversight. This includes regular communications and coordination with clients, managing expectations, writing, and managing proposals, creating change orders, composing budgets, invoicing and project closeout.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams of Engineers, Designers and other staff through project completion
• Lead the teams through the successful completion of medium to large projects while managing more than one project at a time
• Prepare project work plans, proposals, and schedules, and obtain management/client approval
• Maintain regular communication with clients regarding project status and project quality, and proactively resolve issues
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients and vendors, regulatory authorities and technical agencies, and the public
• Proactively track, analyze and report on actual performance against the plan, and prepare cost and schedule reporting, both for clients and as part of internal reporting processes
• Address change management matters promptly and professionally with clients and internal departments
• Internal reporting includes: Monthly project financial forecast, project budget maintenance, key performance indicator monitoring
• Analyze project management and project delivery risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action
• Lead and manage business development initiatives including Requests for Qualifications and Requests for Proposals; with input from others, compile a comprehensive and realistic scope of work, and prepare a complete and accurate fee estimate, in a format suitable for obtaining the required management approvals
• As Team Leader, provide mentoring, assistance, encouragement and motivation to team members
• Provide general administrative and technical leadership for the project
• Maintain all project records and monitor correspondence
• Schedule and facilitate all project meetings required to successfully coordinate work activity
• Administer subconsultant agreements as assigned
• Implement and manage the kW Quality Control Plan for each project
• Proactively track and report workload management throughout the project
• Management of client and subconsultant invoicing

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