Senior Project Manager

WB Moore Company; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

WB Moore Company in Charlotte, NC seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee the financial performance, scheduling, and execution of complex electrical projects across multiple states. The SPM will manage scope, change orders, and ensure schedules align with general contractor timelines, while maintaining outstanding client relations.

The role demands proven leadership, mentoring of project managers, and the ability to drive best practices, forecast costs, and manage risk.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
• Ten (10) years of electrical construction project management experience.
• Seven (7) years of experience successfully managing and completing single projects over $10M in size within planned scope, schedule, and cost, with positive customer satisfaction experience.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of electrical practical installation processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage large‑scale electrical project portfolio with single projects exceeding $10M in total, such as data centers, schools, hospitals, universities, power generation plants, airports, etc.
• Excellent understanding of costs, revenue, billings, projections, margin, gains, fades, commitments, AR, AP, etc.
• Proficient in change order estimates. Identifying scope and scope gaps. Coordinating vendor and sub quotes and scopes. Negotiating change orders with customers.
• Proficient in scheduling of our work and integration with the GC’s schedule. Understanding and experience with pull planning. Ability to create, resource load, and analyze critical path schedules. Understanding work breakdown structures. Work closely with Project Superintendent to ensure deadlines are met, constraint logs are issued to the GC, and manpower is coherent with budgets.
• Comfortable with establishing and maintaining customer relations. Understanding the balance between protecting our Company and maintaining relationships with clients.
• Being a consummate example of Leadership always first and foremost, then training others to also be Leaders for those whom they manage.
• Effectively delegate to others on the team.
• Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the people they manage, and constantly developing, coaching, and mentoring all their direct reports to achieve their highest potential.
• Creating and managing a development plan for their people at all levels of their career path, providing coaching, mentoring, tools, training, and resources to improve their areas of weakness.
• Establishing effective means of communication between the field and office personnel.
• Ensure all personnel receive adequate exposure to all facets of the business, grooming them for future growth opportunities.
• Enable and empower people to step up and be ready to accept new challenges at any time.
• Successfully working within systems that have documented processes and procedures for all tasks.
• Establishing discipline and setting controls to ensure adherence to best practices.
• Establish daily/weekly/monthly cadence to track status of scope/schedule/cost for all projects.
• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for developing, budgeting, scheduling, and managing projects.
• Knowledge of electrical construction process.
• Skill to interface with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, and satisfy or exceed their expectations resulting in the generation of new business.
• Skill to produce and maintain a project schedule with critical path and planned float.
• Ability to interpret complex construction drawings and specifications.
• Ability to use MS Office Programs, and general computer platforms (MS Outlook, MS Project, AutoDesk, ConEst, and Spectrum).

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Electrical construction

Budgeting & forecasting

Change order management

Scheduling & CPM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or related

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

AutoDesk

ConEst

Spectrum

Job description

Senior Project Manager Overview

WB Moore is a privately‑owned company headquartered in Charlotte, NC and continues to be an industry leader specializing in ELECTRICAL PROJECTS in multiple states. WB Moore thrives on dynamic, complex assignments using cutting‑edge technology. WB Moore delivers innovative design work to better serve the needs of our customers.

WB Moore’s Senior Project Manager reports to a designated Division Manager and is responsible for the financial performance of their assigned project(s). They will manage and oversee all aspects related to project management, financial performance, tracking, and forecasting, scheduling, and change order management as well as establish and maintain outstanding customer relationships, ensure project goals are met, execute best practices, and adhere to policies and procedures. The Senior Project Manager (SPM) can manage large scale projects, as well as manage groups of other Project Managers.

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) is the master of all aspects of Project Management, with proven experience in delivering successful projects as well as developing successful people. The SPM should have proven documented experience in the areas listed below.

Managing Projects

• Management of large‑scale electrical project portfolio with single projects exceeding $10M in total, such as data centers, schools, hospitals, universities, power generation plants, airports, etc.
• Excellent understanding of costs, revenue, billings, projections, margin, gains, fades, commitments, AR, AP, etc.
• Proficient in change order estimates. Identifying scope and scope gaps. Coordinating vendor and sub quotes and scopes. Negotiating change orders with customers.
• Proficient in scheduling of our work and integration with the GC’s schedule. Understanding and experience with pull planning. Ability to create, resource load, and analyze critical path schedules. Understanding work breakdown structures. Work closely with Project Superintendent to ensure deadlines are met, constraint logs are issued to the GC, and manpower is coherent with budgets.
• Comfortable with establishing and maintaining customer relations. Understanding the balance between protecting our Company and maintaining relationships with clients.

Managing People

• Being a consummate example of Leadership always first and foremost, then training others to also be Leaders for those whom they manage.
• Effectively delegate to others on the team.
• Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the people they manage, and constantly developing, coaching, and mentoring all their direct reports to achieve their highest potential.
• Creating and managing a development plan for their people at all levels of their career path, providing coaching, mentoring, tools, training, and resources to improve their areas of weakness.
• Establishing effective means of communication between the field and office personnel.
• Ensure all personnel receive adequate exposure to all facets of the business, grooming them for future growth opportunities.
• Enable and empower people to step up and be ready to accept new challenges at any time.

Managing the Process

• Successfully working within systems that have documented processes and procedures for all tasks.
• Establishing discipline and setting controls to ensure adherence to best practices.
• Establish daily/weekly/monthly cadence to track status of scope/schedule/cost for all projects.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for developing, budgeting, scheduling, and managing projects.
• Knowledge of electrical construction process.
• Skill to interface with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, and satisfy or exceed their expectations resulting in the generation of new business.
• Skill to produce and maintain a project schedule with critical path and planned float.
• Ability to interpret complex construction drawings and specifications.
• Ability to use MS Office Programs, and general computer platforms (MS Outlook, MS Project, AutoDesk, ConEst, and Spectrum).

Preferred Education and Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a technical field, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience.
• Ten (10) years of electrical construction project management experience.
• Seven (7) years of experience successfully managing and completing single projects over $10M in size within planned scope, schedule, and cost, with positive customer satisfaction experience.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of electrical practical installation processes.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

WB Moore Company of Charlotte, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Our success directly reflects the skills, experience, and dedication to our people. To help them succeed, we strive to provide a positive, productive work environment based upon both mutual respect and a commitment to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws. We recruit, hire, train, and promote employees without discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, marital status, age, disability, or veteran status. All of our employees share the responsibility for supporting our policies for a harassment‑free and drug‑free workplace.