Project Manager

Position Summary: The PDC Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering project scopes safely, efficiently, and profitably while meeting or exceeding client expectations. This role serves as the project team's central point of accountability-aligning people, resources, schedules, and budgets to ensure successful project execution from kickoff through closeout.

The Project Manager serves as the leader of the project team and is responsible for problem-solving. They proactively manage risks by fostering collaboration among internal teams, subcontractors, vendors, and clients to ensure effective communication and delivery of quality, safety, progress, and financial performance. This role transforms plans into results, challenges into solutions, and commitments into completed, profitable projects through industry-best PM practices.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Commitment to ESOP values, strategies, goals/objectives, and merit shop philosophy to drive a world-class 1-PDC culture of safety, customer service, and quality to create long-term profitability, growth, brand value, and client partnerships.
2. Direct management of the project team's resources and labor plan to safely execute the contractual scope, while delivering planned profitability, meeting schedule commitments, and achieving exceptional client satisfaction.
3. Jobsite presence to manage key stakeholders to assure safe and effective project progress and healthy relationships: General Contractors, customers/clients, field crews, regulatory agencies, vendors, and subcontractors.
4. Effectively manage and proactively communicate the project's performance, health, risks, and mitigation plans to safely enhance profitability, ensure schedule compliance, and deliver the highest quality deliverables and client satisfaction.
5. Identify and communicate value-add opportunities for expanded scope among existing projects and potential future new projects.
6. Effectively close out projects with detailed and accurate documentation.
7. Collaboration with and support of 1-PDC Sales and Supply Chain strategies, objectives, and initiatives.
8. Collaborates with Estimating to establish the lowest risk, highest value project budgets, proposal scopes, and schedules.
9. Maintain transparent standard PM documents per industry best practices and methods.
10. Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years Industry-related experience
• Experienced in proposal writing & project estimation practices
• Strong math skills and cognitive reasoning skills
• General knowledge of electrical components and applications.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Conflict resolution, problem-solving, and risk management skills.
• Detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to collaborate with, manage, and develop others.
• Willingness to travel, work extended hours, and a variable/flexible schedule.
• Possess a valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Commercial Sales Experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Working Conditions:

• The employee occasionally works in proximity to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, sources of electrical shock, or in high or precarious places.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but may be loud in manufacturing environments.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds while moving equipment, components, or subassemblies.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Varying schedules & occasional extended hours for site work.