Project Management Organization Manager, Energy

Company Description

Working at Knobelsdorff

Along with building state-of-the-art projects, we build meaningful careers, lasting opportunities, and teams of dedicated individuals who truly own their work. As a leading turnkey specialty contractor specializing in Automation, Electric, Energy, and Power Services, our team tackles challenging, cutting-edge projects that provide opportunities to build new skills, confidence, and gain valuable hands-on experience in a variety of different industries. We tackle industrial electrical installations, advanced automation systems, and renewable energy solutions.

Since our founding as a family-owned company in 1988, we've grown while staying true to our core values. Starting your career with Knobelsdorff means joining a culture that values your contributions, moves quickly, takes calculated risks, and celebrates team members who step up and own their work.

If you're ready to join a team where your voice matters, your growth is supported, and your impact is celebrated, Knobelsdorff (KE) is the place for you.

Job Description

Purpose: Serve as a mentor and trainer to all assigned Project Managers. Set policies and procedures and identify best practices to guide them in the execution of their duties.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior Project Manager within the division, managing sites and portfolios as necessary to ensure proper execution of projects.
• Oversee Project Handover Meetings with the Pre-Construction and Estimating team to ensure your Project Management teams have the necessary information to successfully execute projects.
• Familiarize yourself with customer contracts and assist project managers with their review of contracts in order to analyze scope, schedule, and budget of project.
• Guide project management teams on how to properly conduct both internal coordination and external customer meetings.
• Guide project management teams through the creation and submittals of RFI(s) to gain clarification and details needed for successful project completion.
• As construction activities begin on site ensure project management teams maintain a thorough understanding of required scope, customer timelines, and contractual milestone dates.
• Coach project management teams on productive communication with field leadership to ensure a good understanding of equipment, tools and personnel needs as well as work accomplished and remaining tasks.
• Supervise monthly cost to complete, forecasted revenue, and cash flow forecast exercises with project management teams.
• Coach project management teams through change order, ensuring proper payment for additional scope while also balancing customer relationships.
• Ensure project management teams are appropriately accounting for costs to jobs.
• Attend lessons learned meetings with customers to capture improvements needed for future projects.
• Continuously provide feedback to the Pre-Construction and Estimating team to refine bids.
• Attend “kickoff meetings” and ensure Project Managers are appropriately covering project scope, schedule, benchmarks, and performance goals with field leadership.
• Maintain a consistent schedule of field visits by your project management teams and expectations for those visits ensuring teams are appropriately involved at the field level on all projects.
• In coordination with the other directors, develop and implement PMO standards, processes, and best practices to drive consistency and efficiency across energy projects. 

Qualifications

• 3+ Years of experience of overseeing a construction project management team. 
• Strong understanding of project financials, cost breakdowns, and construction budgets. 
• Strong organizational skills with a high attention to detail. 
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment and submerge yourself into the team. 
• Flexibility and resilience in handling a dynamic workload. 
• Proven success in managing people and providing constructive feedback for the growth of the Project Management teams. 
• Proactively seeks out and absorbs shared knowledge, focusing on both the details and the rationale of our operations. 

Additional Information

We believe in paying for the value you bring to the team, and we aim to be competitive in every market we hire in.

Pay Range: $110,000 to $130,000/year

Total Rewards Statement

As a full-time employee at Knobelsdorff, you'll have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and future.

• 100% employer-paid health and dental coverage for employees
• HSA contributions to support your medical expenses
• Company-paid life insurance an