Project Manager Supervisor

Description

Job Title: Project Manager Supervisor

Reports to: VP of Operations

Department: Engineering

Location: 808 Timberlake Road, Fairmont, MN 56031 ** We are open to providing relocation assistance for the right candidate.
We are not able to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position. 

Position Summary: This full-time position is essential to the success of the business as it involves leading, managing, and holding accountable a team of project managers that directly interface with our customers. The project management team hold a key role in project execution that falls between the Kahler Technical Sales Managers, Engineering, and Manufacturing. This person must have excellent project management and communication skills to allow for accurate, on time and on budget projects.

Exhibit and promote the following values:

• Curious Attitude: An employee who is curious is motivated to take time to question and explore new things to find answers that will ensure the best outcomes for the organization.
• Focus on Quality: An employee who values quality has integrity and produces results that meet high standards set by the organization
• Passion for Service: An employee who is service-oriented displays a positive behavior and responds to customers using good business practices to meet their needs and expectations.
• Dedicated Spirit: A dedicated employee is one who takes ownership for their role and the whole organization to ensure that goals are achieved.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Lead and mentor a team of project managers.
• Manages performance of department employees by establishing clear work expectations, motivating employees, monitoring performance, and using corrective action when necessary.
• Recommends or initiates personnel actions, such as employment, performance evaluations, promotions, transfers, discharges, and disciplinary measures.
• Sets priorities and workload and evaluates and improves team member performance routinely.
• Develop systems, processes, and procedures for business operations that ensure effective and efficient outcomes.
• Review and approve change orders created by the project managers.
• Review project needs assessment, scope of work, and estimates generated by Solution Consultants. 
• Request information from customers or other vendors such as IP addresses, equipment lists, equipment layout drawings and tank drawings. 
• Review PFD’s and vendor equipment drawings / lists. 
• Create projects in ERP system. 
• Create and coordinate change notices when a projects scope is modified.  
• Coordinate with multiple teams to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, schedules, and costs. 
• Organize, attend, and participate in stakeholder meetings including internal project meetings and customer project conference calls. 
• Meet with team members to resolve questions that occur during the project.  
• Document and follow up on action items from meetings. 
• Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings.  
• Prepare and submit project submittals to the customer.  
• Submittals include estimated project timeline, MCC approval drawings, control panel approval drawings, point to point field wiring drawings, and as built drawings.  
• Ensure that all extra work is authorized in writing by the customer prior to starting additional work and all change order documentation is prepared and executed.  
• Communicate with field technicians and customers to determine commissioning status, such as Work completed, hours delayed, etc. 
• Coordinate all aspects of project/site readiness, including Return Material Authorizations, equipment delivery, site preparation, equipment configuration, factory acceptance testing, and startup activities such as checklists and pre-startup meetings with field technicians.
• Conduct post-project evaluation to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.  
• ERP project oversight. Updating ship dates, ensuring project tasks are assigned and completed to allow the project to be billed.  
• This Job description is not comprehensive, and all employees must be flexible and willing to perform other duties as assigned by their supervisor.  

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual must demonstrate the following:

• DEPENDABILITY AND RELIABILITY: Performs all duties and assignments whether or not supervision is present.
• COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Expre