Senior Project Manager

HATZEL & BUEHLER; Hauppauge (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Vision insurance

Job summary

HATZEL & BUEHLER is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead projects from direction to completion, ensuring quality, schedule, and budget alignment. The role collaborates with the Branch Manager to assess risks, manage change requests, and deliver on-time, within-cost results.

Responsibilities include client communications, scope management, subcontractor coordination, and ensuring safety and workmanship quality across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree: Electrical Engineering, Construction Management preferred.
• 10–12 years experience preferred.
• Proficient in reviewing AutoCAD drawings, as-built documentation, and coordination drawings for commercial and institutional projects.
• Experience estimating, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning for complex low-voltage and building systems installations.
• Strong ability to manage subcontractors, vendors, and internal field teams across multiple projects and job sites.
• Extensive knowledge of low-voltage systems, including audio-visual, electronic security, access control, CCTV, life safety, HVAC integration, structured cabling, and telecommunications.
• Demonstrated experience managing the full project lifecycle from estimating and budgeting through scheduling, vendor coordination, installation, commissioning, and project closeout.
• Familiarity with commercial, infrastructure, financial, healthcare, and institutional construction projects.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel for estimating, project reporting, and schedule management.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD, network configurations, control systems programming support, system commissioning, and troubleshooting is preferred but not required.
• Ability to develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and performance tracking tools to support successful project execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of assigned projects including client relationships, scope, cost, and schedule and job efficiency from start to finish.
• Be the focal point of all client communications.
• Establish, build, and maintain relationships with clients to sustain existing and create future revenue streams.
• Know the plans, specifications, and contractual requirements for all assigned projects.
• Make sure safety is the team’s priority and promote quality in workmanship.
• Assist in contract review for all assigned projects.
• Identify, clarify, and document changes from initial project objectives and scope of work to support the change management process.
• Prepare, review, and submit in a timely fashion all payment requisitions, equipment submittals, change requests, and closeout documentation as per project requirements.
• Partners with Purchasing Manager to negotiate purchase orders with vendors and subcontractors.
• Attend all job-related meetings.
• Update project status in the company’s ERP system on a regular basis and ensure that project financials reported to accounting are accurate.
• Responsible for keeping all deadlines, deliverables, budgeting, and open lines of communication throughout the organization.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Budgeting and scheduling

Team leadership

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Electrical Engineering

Construction Management preferred

Tools

AutoCAD

Control systems programming support

System commissioning

Troubleshooting

Network configurations

Job description

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the overall project direction, completion, and financial outcome for assigned projects. With guidance from the Branch Manager, this role will manage projects on a day-to-day basis, assessing all risks and project change requests to produce the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost for successful project completion.

Job Duties

• Manage all aspects of assigned projects including client relationships, scope, cost, and schedule and job efficiency from start to finish.

• Be the focal point of all client communications.

• Establish, build, and maintain relationships with clients to sustain existing and create future revenue streams.

• Know the plans, specifications, and contractual requirements for all assigned projects.

• Make sure safety is the team’s priority and promote quality in workmanship.

• Assist in contract review for all assigned projects.

• Identify, clarify, and document changes from initial project objectives and scope of work to support the change management process.

• Prepare, review, and submit in a timely fashion all payment requisitions, equipment submittals, change requests, and closeout documentation as per project requirements.

• Partners with Purchasing Manager to negotiate purchase orders with vendors and subcontractors.

• Attend all job-related meetings.

• Update project status in the company’s ERP system on a regular basis and ensure that project financials reported to accounting are accurate.

• Responsible for keeping all deadlines, deliverables, budgeting, and open lines of communication throughout the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree: Electrical Engineering, Construction Management preferred.

• 10-12 years experience preferred.

• Proficient in reviewing AutoCAD drawings, as-built documentation, and coordination drawings for commercial and institutional projects.

• Experience estimating, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning for complex low-voltage and building systems installations.

• Strong ability to manage subcontractors, vendors, and internal field teams across multiple projects and job sites.

• Extensive knowledge of low-voltage systems, including audio-visual, electronic security, access control, CCTV, life safety, HVAC integration, structured cabling, and telecommunications.

• Demonstrated experience managing the full project lifecycle from estimating and budgeting through scheduling, vendor coordination, installation, commissioning, and project closeout.

• Familiarity with commercial, infrastructure, financial, healthcare, and institutional construction projects.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel for estimating, project reporting, and schedule management.

• Working knowledge of AutoCAD, network configurations, control systems programming support, system commissioning, and troubleshooting is preferred but not required.

• Ability to develop and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and performance tracking tools to support successful project execution.

Work Environment:

• This job is fully in person, on site.

Benefits:

• 401(k)

• 401(k) matching

• Dental insurance

• Health insurance

• Life insurance

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Vision insurance

Equal Employment Opportunity

HATZEL & BUEHLER provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, HATZEL & BUEHLER complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. HATZEL & BUEHLER expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of HATZEL & BUEHLER’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall determine reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.