Project Manager HVAC
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Location: Houston, TX 77084
Description:
Description
Essential Duties
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
Essential Duties
- Direct and manage projects from beginning to end.
- Translate the Purchase Work Order and contracted requirements into a clearly defined scope of work, milestones, and detailed tasks.
- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
- Reconcile spending with project budget, and recommend subsequent budget/contractual changes where necessary.
- Initiate progress billings to customer(s) via the Accounting and Finance Team for Hughes Environmental
- Clearly identify any exceptional conditions that must be accounted for during the project's execution (ex/ access limitations to various areas, allowable work hours from the facility)
- Effectively communicate project expectations and updates to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Assess need for additional staff and make the appropriate resource requests, if necessary during a project cycle.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
- Proactively manage scope creep, request for project changes, identify potential pain points, and devise contingency plans.
- Define project success criteria and disseminate to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
- Coach, mentor, motivate technicians and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Proactively escalate areas of concern to the Senior Director of Operations.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of direct work experience in a project management capacity in manufacturing/industrial facilities, construction, facility management or fire safety industries
- Bachelor's degree in Production Management or Business or PMP certification preferred or work experience in a project management capacity may be considered in lieu of degree or certifications
- Strong familiarity with project management software or Excel as a project planning tool
- Experience leading safety training
- Flexibility in working environments
- Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
- Ability to easily adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines
- Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
- Ability to effectively and respectfully communicate with people from all levels of an organization.
- Must be able to positively influence a project through persuasive, encouraging, and motivating actions.
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and technicians.
- Ability to defuse tension, should it arise.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to learn, understand, and translate new concepts.
- Innate customer service focus.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is critical.