Project Manager (Solar)

at  Wanzek Construction

Overview:
The Project Manager serves as the single point of responsibility for accomplishing project objectives and ensuring that established practices, procedures, and company goals are implemented in the key areas of safety, quality, profitability, and client satisfaction. Project Managers lead the project team through all phases of the project from acquisition through pre-construction, execution, and close-out. Competency in the areas of leadership, communication, planning, and scope management are key to project success.
Location & Travel Details: You’ll get the opportunity to travel across the US, helping our team build renewable projects. This is a traveling position (up to 100%), where you will be onsite at a project location. You have the potential to be placed on a project site located in any state throughout the US. You’ll spend 8-12 months on average per project. We offer designated daily per diem in addition to base pay to support and help you cover living expenses. This position is eligible for routine travel home (rotation) from the jobsite. A vehicle allowance will be provided.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree (B. S.) from four-year college or university in Construction Management, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of five years of Solar or EPC construction Industry experience/knowledge of construction techniques, estimating and construction management

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Take reasonable care of your own and others’ health and safety and of those who may be affected by the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working toward Wanzek’s Zero Injury principles
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Primavera, Timberline, and Construction Software
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret blueprints, professional journals, technical procedures, contracts or governmental regulations
• Write reports, business correspondence and document project activities
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from project managers, superintendents, clients, customers and the general public
• Effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors
• Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in standardized situations
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Willingness and ability to travel to job sites 60% of the time

• Project Integration Management: manage the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project
• Project Scope management: Responsible for the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
• Project Time Management: track and monitor the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.
• Project Cost Management: work collaboratively with support and operations teams to successfully manage the planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and cost controls so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
• Project Quality Management: establish and support the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
• Project Human Resource Management: organize, manage, and lead the project team.
• Project Communications Management: ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.
• Project Risk Management: Conduct risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on project.
• Project Procurement Management: purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. Processes in this area include Procurement Planning, Solicitation Planning, Solicitation, Source Selection, Contract Administration, and Contract Closeout.
• Project Stakeholder Management: identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyzing stakeholder expectations and impact on the project, and developing appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution.
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