Associate Project Manager

Associate Project Manager, Excellerate

The Associate Project Manager, Excellerate is responsible for generating business, providing general management of electrical and/or specialty systems construction projects, and overseeing staff.

Minimum Requirements

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical training

Experience: 1 year of electrical estimating experience

or

Experience: 5 years of experience in the electrical trade and one year of electrical estimating experience

Travel: 10-25% based on need

Work Schedule: Typical work hours are between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday Friday; However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with Company policies.
• Promotes a positive Company Culture by fostering friendly and constructive employee relations.
• Works with Purchasing Department and vendors to ensure effective material coordination.
• Supports generation of new business. Networks, establishes, and maintains customer relationships.
• Processes miscellaneous paperwork.
• Supports the process of planning, organizing, and staffing electrical construction projects. Ensures specific tasks associated with safety, productivity, task tracking and quality are completed according to customers' expectations.
• Attends weekly and monthly meetings (i.e., Staffing Meeting, Project Manager Meeting, Sales Meeting, etc.).
• Supports activities associated with partnering with Talent to optimize recruiting and selection, employee relations, and other related topics as it pertains to direct reports.
• Promotes the merit shop philosophy by ensuring effective, fair, and timely performance evaluations for all employees.
• Visits various projects and interacts with crew, customers, foreman, and general contractors to ensure proper job progress and to support and encourage safe behavior.
• Supports the review of outgoing estimates with the Estimating Department to ensure accuracy.
• Effectively delegates direct reports with proper control systems in place to ensure accountability and to prevent decision making bottlenecks.
• Provides frequent and clear feedback to direct reports, offers clear direction, and ensures direct reports are sure about their goals.
• Organizes direct reports into a productive team to encourage synergy.
• Acts as coach and developer of managerial talent; as well as skillfully selects and trains those individuals. Evaluates candidates' and managers' willingness to lead, communication and planning competencies, and ability to make decisions under pressure. Assigns team and project-leadership assignments to assess skill/ability. Spends ample time evaluating people in 'test' managerial roles.
• Holds managers who report to him/her accountable for managerial work.
• Deploys and redeploys resources among managers' areas.
• Manages the boundaries that separate units which report directly and with other parts of the business. Monitors the flow of work between his/her unit and others in the organization; asking questions and recommending improvements. Understands and conveys functional strategies, business strategies, and corporate mission. Fosters effective cross-functional collaborations to accelerate work processes.
• Creates a supportive environment that allows mistakes but not failure (motivates and instructs; shares positive and negative feedback in a constructive manner.).
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.
• Actively participates in Faith's hiring referral and mentoring program, as appropriate.

The job description and responsibilities described are intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as a comprehensive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills or abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

FTI is a "merit to the core" organization. We recognize and reward top performers, offering competitive, merit-based compensation, career path development and a flexible and robust benefits package.

We provide industry-leading benefits as an investment in the lives of team members and their families. You're invited to review the full list of FTI benefits available to regular/full-time team members.

Faith Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer veterans/disabled.

Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background and drug test