Senior Project Manager - Water/Wastewater

Alterman, Inc.; Austin (TX); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Alterman, Inc. seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead electrical construction projects in the water and wastewater market, including treatment plants and pump stations.

The role requires extensive electrical construction experience in process-intensive environments and involves high accountability for contracts, safety, quality, and cost. Primary responsibilities include client relationship management, project planning and scheduling, budgeting, procurement oversight, and coordination with

Qualifikationen

• Extensive electrical construction experience in water/wastewater or similar process-intensive environments.

Aufgaben

• Account management for assigned accounts with focus on long-term satisfaction, opportunities, and revenue growth.
• Develops and maintains relationships with owners, general contractors, engineers, municipalities, utilities, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluates bidding, material buyouts, and negotiating opportunities for assigned accounts.
• Maintains communication with Alterman personnel and informs leadership of significant issues.
• Communicates cross-departmentally for opportunities.
• Leads project planning with Preconstruction and Project Support groups to maximize profit opportunities.
• Leads project kick-off meetings and planning sessions with estimating and support groups.
• Prepares breakdown of estimates for LAW SOP.
• Reviews plans and specifications and ensures safety programs are initiated.
• Identifies constraints, shutdown requirements, sequencing challenges, and critical path activities.
• Coordinates planning for work in active water/wastewater facilities and ensures continuity of plant operations.
• Applies knowledge of water/wastewater and process-related electrical systems, including PLC/SCADA.
• Plans for underground electrical systems, temporary power, shutdowns, tie-ins, energization, testing, startup, and commissioning.
• Coordinates with vendors, systems integrators, instrumentation, commissioning personnel, and other stakeholders.
• Manages project development activities including status reviews, agenda setting, and meetings.
• Establishes schedule of values for contracts and assists in billing projections.
• Prepares major purchase orders and evaluates pricing and scope.

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Senior Project Manager accepts profit and loss responsibility and accountability for the execution of all project contracts and customer accounts as assigned by Alterman management. The Senior Project Manager is typically assigned to larger, more complex projects and carries out project tasks safely, at the highest quality and lowest cost.

This position will have primary responsibility for leading electrical construction projects within the water and wastewater market, including water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, pump stations, lift stations, process facilities, and related municipal and industrial infrastructure. The Senior Project Manager is expected to have extensive electrical construction experience in water/wastewater or similar process-intensive industrial environments, including experience with electrical distribution, motor control, instrumentation, controls, PLC/SCADA systems, process equipment, and construction within active operating facilities.

• Account Management: 10%
• Takes ownership and responsibility for assigned accounts and ensures long term customer/account satisfaction, opportunities, and revenue growth.
• Develops and maintains relationships with owners, general contractors, construction managers, engineers, municipalities, utilities, plant personnel, and other key project stakeholders.
• Evaluates bidding, material buyouts, and negotiating opportunities of assigned accounts.
• Maintains effective communications with appropriate Alterman personnel, keeping them informed of all aspects relevant to the duties to which they have been assigned.
• Communicates with other departments for cross selling opportunities.
• Timely informs the Director of any significant problems encountered and provides recommended solutions.
• Project Planning: 10%
• Works in conjunction with the Preconstruction and Project Support group, taking a proactive approach to project planning to maximize profit opportunities.
• Leads project kick off meetings and work sessions with estimating and support groups.
• Prepares breakdown of estimate to utilize the Labor Analysis Workflow (LAW) Standard Operating Procedures.
• Reviews plans and specifications.
• Ensures appropriate safety programs are initiated.
• Identifies project constraints, shutdown requirements, sequencing challenges, owner operational requirements, and critical path activities.
• Coordinates planning for work performed within active water and wastewater facilities where continuity of plant operations is required.
• Applies practical construction knowledge of water/wastewater and process-related projects, including treatment plants, pump and lift stations, electrical distribution, motor control, instrumentation, controls, and PLC/SCADA systems.
• Plans for project-specific requirements including underground electrical systems, temporary power, construction sequencing, shutdowns, tie-ins, cutovers, energization, testing, startup, and commissioning.
• Coordinates planning of electrical work with process-related scopes, equipment vendors, systems integrators, instrumentation contractors, commissioning personnel, and other project stakeholders.
• Project Management (Office): 30%
• Manages assigned projects in accordance with Alterman’s procedures and policies.
• Completes project startup procedures, including:
• Making projections, budgeting, and performing job cost entry for materials, labor, subcontracts, LAW, Packaged Alterman Construction Kits (PACK), and Direct Job Expenses (DJE).
• Project scheduling for construction, material release(s), labor, and cash flow.
• Interpreting contracts and providing input to proposed project team.
• Project Development:
• Leads 25-50-75-90-100% project review meetings and prepares meeting documentation for small and midsized projects. Performs monthly project review meetings for large scale projects.
• Prepares agenda and runs internal meetings as needed.
• Establishes the project schedule of values for fix sum contracts and assists in billing preparation and billing projections for fee-based projects.
• Prepares accurate job cost projections regularly as directed.
• Prepares change order proposals and quotations.
• Reviews, requests, or creates quotations and bills of materials.
• Reviews and processes shop drawings.
• Prepares major purchase orders while following appropriate pricing and scope evaluations.
• Identifies cost and schedule trends and develops recovery plans when project performance deviates from plan.
• Maintains material files (purchase orders, memos, quotes, shop drawings, test reports, action item list, field record drawings, etc.).
• Coordinates with Purchasing to procure and coordinate delivery of materials to the project while achieving the project material budgets.
• Manages long-lead equipment including switchgear, MCCs, transformers, generators, VFDs, control equipment, and specialized process electrical systems.
• Coordinates with equipment vendors, systems integrators, engineers, and field personnel to ensure electrical and controls requirements are properly integrated.
• Arranges for the selection and placement of key supervisory personnel in coordination with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent. Evaluates performance of personnel and addresses deficiencies.
• Coordinates with Workforce Development and Preplanning/Productivity Superintendent to achieve the project labor budget.
• Ensures project documentation supports entitlement to change orders, schedule impacts, delay claims, and other contractual requirements when applicable.
• Completes project close out procedures, including:
• Addressing items on the punch list, signoff, final billing, retainage, collections, warranty, returns, closing purchase orders open commitments, finalizing record documents, final AHJ inspections, and updating project description and Operation and Maintenance Manuals.
• Scheduling and leading project close out meetings and preparing close out documents.
• Ensuring required testing, commissioning, startup, and training documentation is complete.
• Coordinating turnover of electrical, instrumentation, and control systems to the owner.