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JOB SUMMARY:

Trane in Valley View, OH is hiring an Equipment Project Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, implementation, and management of HVAC equipment projects and accountable for assigned projects’ scope of work, schedule, and budget.

• Responsible for timely completion of assigned projects and customer satisfaction.
• Plans and analyzes assigned projects, establishes schedules and project parameters and sets procedures to accomplish system objectives, involving complex equipment applications.
• Communicates with customers and their representatives, including building owners, mechanical contractors, other trades, subcontractors, and field support staff.
• Compares estimated ship dates with contractors project schedule.
• Controls expenses by monitoring assigned project budget.
• Creates and makes revisions to project schedules including: generating tasks, estimates, dependencies; and milestones.
• Generates work orders for equipment start-ups.
• Coordinates with contractors and owners to discuss scope of project; budgets; performance; and close-out – from credit approvals to financial reconciliation and everything in between.
• Responsible for project cash-flow management: progress billing, collections support and monitoring, and resource management.
• Ensures that quality standards are maintained for assigned projects.
• Maintains customer satisfaction by investigating concerns, implementing corrective action, and communicating with customers and assigned staff.
• Establishes a professional relationship with the customer and interfaces constantly to maintain accurate status reports and project reviews.
• Obtains acceptance and timely sign-off of the project by the customer.
• Responsible for evaluating possible cost savings and/or cost problems that will occur on various projects.
• Validates project scope by reviewing transition documents, plans and specs; listing possible cost savings and problems; planning EQ/ VPP dollar breaks; and validating quantities and configurations.
• Supports sales and develops preliminary submittals and/or final submittals as required.
• Responsible for preparing the correct equipment and order entry.
• Optimizes expenses by negotiating prices with vendors for materials.
• Validates outside equipment and service purchase prices.
• Documents work by maintaining files for each job.
• Obtains and validates vendor submittals.
• Responsible for holding job cost consensus meeting and submittal release and makes any necessary changes.
• Generates and distributes final submittal.
• Modifies equipment pricing as necessary and reconciles job costs as necessary.
• Maintains competitive advantage and stays abreast of industry trends.
• Flexibility to work outside normal work hours/weekends, as required.