Project Manager

Company: Orion Talent
Location: Avon
Posted on: May 18, 2024

Job Description:

Position: Construction Project Manager (Solar) Location: REMOTE
Salary/Benefits: $160-185k base salary (depending on experience) + 25% Annual Performance
Starting on day one of employment, you will be eligible to enroll in company benefits plan.
--- 100% employer paid HDHP premiums for employees
--- 100% employer paid dental insurance premiums
--- 401(k) Savings Plan with employer match
--- Vision insurance
--- Company PTO/vacation - accrued starting your first day of employment.
--- Education assistance (tuition reimbursement)
--- Employee/family focused culture, and more!

Location: Fully remote - with approximately 50% travel to solar project sites to engage with Site Managers and various cross-functional teams. Must be able to travel, being onsite approximately 2 weeks per month - home every other weekend.
Position Summary: Provide leadership and manage the operational and financial aspects of construction projects; and serve as primary liaison with the client's project management team. Identify potential leads and assist estimators with the development of pricing proposals. Work to develop a good understanding of the power and energy generation market. Obtain knowledge and engage in electrical, civil, and structural discussions. Enforce the use of Best Practices and Quality Programs, process utilization, and safety and risk management. Ensure the company's fundamental values and beliefs are followed and maintained.
Position Responsibilities:

Safety:
1. Ensure the company's Best Practices are utilized on the project throughout the employee orientation, weekly senior management meetings, and Job Hazard Analyses.
2. Place an emphasis on special risks (crane, site conditions, LOTO, arc-flash etc.), perform monthly project audits, complete risk assessment matrices, and monitor important leading indicators.
3. Ensure CATS observation goals are met, accident injury management processes are trained and fully understood, and the project follows federal and state safety regulations and the corporate safety program.

Contract:
1. Read, edit, create, understand, and correlate the contract documents with the scope proposal to ensure the project is built within the scope of the contract (design, specifications, budget and schedule).
2. Communicate with the owner promptly on contract changes, scope, and schedule.
3. Read, edit, and understand subcontracts, service agreements, and purchase agreements; then correlate quotes to the main scope and contract.
4. Create the Cost Management Report (CMR).
5. Facilitate the "hand off" meetings with the estimating team to appropriately plan resources (labor, equipment, vendors, subcontractors).

Operations:
1. Ensure the project is productive and efficient, Best Practices are communicated, and the project is technically and quality compliant, striving towards superior project execution.
2. Ensure the site team reviews and understands the contract and owner requirements.
3. Follow-up with departments to ensure corporate and project processes are being performed timely and with minimal errors.
4. Engage with the procurement group to support the process of the work acquisition to achieve the most competitive proposal.
5. Endorse, motivate, and execute closeouts, lessons learned, and non-conformance; and hold others accountable.

Personnel:
1. Communicate and collaborate with other Project Managers, General Superintendents, Managers of Construction, and Directors in scheduling resources (labor and equipment).
2. Share knowledge of lessons learned, company values, and employee's skills and abilities.
3. Enforce the utilization of the company's Basics, Best Practices, project Quality Plans, Support Processes, and company policies; and be a public supporter of company decisions.
4. Provide coaching feedback to Site Managers and Field Engineers on a scheduled basis.
5. Ensure effective coaching and feedback is provided to all site employees for developmental purposes.
6. Prepare star employees for potential advancement and address consistent underperformers.
7. Facilitate initial team building efforts at project commencement and ensure continuous teambuilding, training and mentoring efforts are on-going throughout the duration of the project.
8. Monitor the Time-Off tracker to ensure the Site Manager is rotating supervisors away from the job to support a healthy work/life balance.
9. Ensure the project follows the company policies and state and federal employment regulations.

Client:
1. Schedule and facilitate regular client meetings during the project.
2. Develop a personal working relationship with the owner(s).
3. Determine client expectations and set the direction of the client value drivers with the site team.
4. Measure the success of meeting the client's expectations and value drivers during the course of the project and at the project closeout.
5. Ensure the site management team's construction activities support client requirements, project schedule, safety, quality, and budget.
6. Ensure the site management team utilizes professional demeanor while interfacing with vendors, subcontractors, landowners, and other community members.
7. Work with clients to find cost savings areas or to prevent change orders.

Financial:
1. Hold primary financial responsibility for the project budget and work codes.
2. Establish work codes, budgets, cash flow, and productions within the specified timeframe.
3. Communicate the work codes with the site team and train them on proper usage of the codes.
4. Throughout construction, regularly review the project costs against the budget and through the cost-to-complete process; and accurately forecast project costs, revenues, profits, change orders, and billings.
5. Monitor the receivables of the project to ensure a positive cash flow.
6. Ensure the site management team is accurately monitoring costs against budget by tracking and reporting quantities.
7. Review and report cost deviations to Estimating as they occur and provide a summary report at the project closeout.
8. Complete final cost analysis.
9. Identify and communicate (financial) problem areas.

Quality:
1. Ensure the proper implementation and application of the project Quality Plan with assistance from site management (non-conformance report, quality checklist, audit, etc.).
2. Develop a project culture and mindset that is focused on quality and continuous improvement.
3. Provide oversight to ensure that the project team is performing in accordance with the project Quality Plan and the company Quality Program processes.
4. Delegate any tasks necessary to the Site Manager to assure conformance with the project Quality Plan, Best Practices and the company Quality Program.

Behavior Competencies:

Plans and Aligns: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, strengthens alignment and coordination between own work and others', providing well-sequenced activities and exact time frames. Foresees and resolves many potential bottlenecks and delays.
Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, encourages coworkers and external partners to work together as a team, and makes sure they get credit for doing so. Encourages people to share their honest views, responds in a non-defensive way when they do..
Optimizes Work Processes: Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. For example, encourages and rewards continuous improvement and quality outcomes. Equips others to handle day-to-day tasks effectively on their own. Integrates systems to improve quality and service.
Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, engages diverse groups by communicating in a way that matches each group's preferences. Listens carefully and probes beneath the surface to gain richer insight on others' views.
Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations. For example, fosters flexibility in the organization; initiates change in response to external cues. Adapts leadership style for different situations and challenges. Builds the structures and culture that allow for some organizational flexibility.
Builds Effective Teams: Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. For example, holds constructive dialogue with the team regularly; takes multiple perspectives into account when making decisions. Commits to and prioritizes the team's decisions in most situations; conveys team spirit.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. For example, understands the nuances of group interpersonal dynamics and leverages this knowledge to achieve results. Investigates others' desires and concerns; strengthens connections by honoring people's priorities and passions.
Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge, or Abilities:
Planning and Organizing: Uses expertise to act as an organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing, and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
Action Planning: Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority in developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
Multi-Project Management: Works at an advanced level to manage multiple unrelated projects (not an integrated program) with possibly different life cycle frameworks such as traditional, agile, or hybrid. Typically works independently and provides guidance.,
Project Management: Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time, and quality parameters.

Qualifications
--- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level of experience
--- Ability to influence and collaborate.
--- Four or more years of progressive leadership experience, in a related industry (i.e., heavy civil, industrial, utilities, power generation, Military)
--- Have knowledge of and experience in cost accounting
--- Understand Construction regulations and rules.
--- Be an adaptive problem-solver.
--- Possess conceptual skills and be able to develop work plans and project schedules
--- The company is a strong advocate of hiring military veterans. Former military officers meeting the criteria and having equivalent experience are strongly encouraged to apply!

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