Project Manager Senior (BAS)

Job Summary: The Senior Project Manager is responsible for overseeing building automation and controls projects from kickoff through completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to customer expectations. This role serves as the primary liaison between sales, operations, customers, subcontractors, and engineering teams, providing technical guidance, coordinating project execution, managing financial performance, forecasting costs, reviewing engineered submittals, identifying change order opportunities, and supporting commissioning and ongoing system operations. The Senior Project Manager drives project success through effective planning, communication, problem-solving, and leadership while maintaining high standards of quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Provides input to sales and operations regarding the technical and business considerations for construction or direct owner projects.  This input could be associated with areas such as estimating, value engineering, timing, special resource needs, or other aspects peculiar to specific projects.
• Ensures project is booked correctly and that all necessary forms are completed for both internal and external purposes. 
• Ensures project documents, estimates, and other information are available to all necessary personnel to maximize productivity on the project.
• Determines if customer expectations can be achieved based upon estimate or contractual scope.
• Identifies and resolves potential project issues.
• Accurately forecasts costs for each area of the project and tracks these over time to achieve budget and forecast goals.
• Invoices projects timely and is actively engaged in collections to minimize aging.
• Coordinates material orders and timing with Material Coordinator to maximize cash flow and material handling efficiency.  Ensures all equipment is compatible and will function properly to achieve the required sequences.  
• Coordinates with Subcontractors or internal installation team to achieve maximum value in installations.
• Completes the monthly WIP re-forecast.
• Recommends technical solutions to sales and operations.  Assist Sales team during estimating phase.
• Identifies change order opportunities and coordinates with sales to document, pursue, and book them.
• Provide support to other contractors to solve building operating issues that go beyond controls or special systems operation.
• Communicate with internal employees as required to ensure labor is accurate and timely and estimated productivity is achieved in all areas.
• Provide leadership and input to others as requested or required to assist in the accurate estimation, design, installation, start up, commissioning, and training for building systems.
• Communicate with external organizations as required such as consulting engineers, building owners, and other contractors to ensure accurate and timely engineering.
• Provide support for ongoing service engineering and support for existing building systems.
• Reviews all engineered submittals ensuring adherence to scope, budget, and customer expectations as well as location standards.  As required, provide input on employee goals and progress on these to supervisors and managers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisor Duties:

In accordance with applicable Company policies/procedures and Federal/State laws, will perform the following supervisory responsibilities: planning, assigning, and directing work; coaching and appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of high school diploma.  
• 2 year technical degree in Electronics related studies preferred.  An undergraduate degree in Electrical, Construction Management, or other related studies, or equivalent job experience.
• 7+ years of HVAC and/or Building Automation and Project Management experience.
• Proficient in interpreting and managing billing processes, including understanding schedules of values.
• Strong grasp of budgeting principles, including budget development, tracking, and forecasting.