Utilities Project Manager

• Builds and maintains detailed project schedules for metering and utility infrastructure installations, including milestones, dependencies, and the critical path. (Essential)
• Manages critical installation timelines and sequences work by geography, season, and operational requirements to ensure project milestones and deadlines are achieved. (Essential)
• Develops the project plan for each initiative, including scope, deliverables, budget, timeline, and success criteria, and secures alignment before work begins. (Essential)
• Tracks permit status site by site, owns the permitting workflow, and drives resolution of permitting blockers ahead of scheduled installations. (Essential)
• Manages the procurement of materials, equipment, and utility components to ensure availability aligns with project schedules and installation timelines. (Essential)
• Coordinates installation vendors, contractors, and field crews day to day to keep projects on schedule, on scope, and on budget. (Essential)
• Runs recurring project check-ins, publishes agendas and notes, and tracks action items and decisions to closure.
• Monitors installation quality against standards and manages punch lists and rework with vendors.
• Tracks project budget against plan, flags variances early, and manages change orders.
• Maintains a project risk and issue register, proactively identifying potential impacts to schedule, budget, scope, and permitting requirements and driving mitigation and resolution efforts through completion.
• Reports project status, milestones, risks, and forecast to the Director and Vice President on a recurring cadence.
• Coordinates with community management on installation logistics and resident-facing impacts.
• Completes structured project closeout for each site, including verification that installed meters are reading correctly at commissioning.
• Facilitates the handoff of completed and commissioned sites to the Utilities Program Manager for ongoing operational management and documents lessons learned to support continuous improvement and future project success.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED (Required)
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Construction Management, or Engineering (Preferred)
• 3 years in project management experience in field-based installation, construction, or infrastructure projects (Preferred)
• Demonstrated experience building and holding a schedule to firm deadlines across multiple concurrent sites
• Experience coordinating vendors, contractors, or field crews against a plan, including managing quality and change orders
• Familiarity with permitting processes and municipal/utility coordination
• Budget management experience (tracking project spend against plan and managing variances)
• Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, or equivalent)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced computer proficiency with the ability to use Microsoft Office Suite applications, project scheduling tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Wrike), email, and internet-based applications
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Knowledge of project management tools and procedures

BENEFITS

At Sun Communities, you will be part of an industry-leading organization where you will be challenged, inspired, rewarded and transformed. We place a high priority on our team members, and this is a big part of what sets us apart. We will ask you to give us your very best every day, and will challenge you with interesting work, stretch assignments, a collaborative and supportive work environment and plenty of learning and growth. In exchange, we will reward you with great pay, advancement opportunities, paid time off, great benefits, and flexibility.

• Comprehensive Medical and Prescription coverage with 4 plan options so you can choose the plan that best meets the needs of you and your family
• Comprehensive Dental and Vision Plans
• On-Site Fitness Center
• Voluntary Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance and Dependent Life
• Short and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) Plan with Sun matching contribution
• Employee Assistance Program
• Identity Theft Insurance
• Legal Assistance Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement program providing financial support to team members who further their formal education
• Vacation RV Site Discounts for team members when visiting Sun resorts across the nation
• Team Member Perks & Discounts program with hundreds of discounts on things like travel, merchandise, mobile phone service, and more
• Up to six weeks of paid parental leave for the birth of a child, adoption, or placement of a child
• Paid Time Off including ten holidays, vacation, personal, sick time, bereavement and pay for jury duty

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