Associate Project Manager

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The Associate Project Manager, Excellerate is responsible for generating business, providing general management of electrical and/or specialty systems construction projects, and overseeing staff.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical training
• Experience:
  
  1 year of electrical estimating experience or
• Experience:
  
  5 years of experience in the electrical trade and one year of electrical estimating experience
• Travel: 10-25% based on need
• Work Schedule:
  
  Typical work hours are between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday;
  However, work may be performed at any time on any day of the week to meet business needs.

• Maintains compliance with Company policies.
• Promotes a positive Company Culture by fostering friendly and constructive employee relations.
• Works with Purchasing Department and vendors to ensure effective material coordination.
• Supports generation of new business.
• Networks, establishes, and maintains customer relationships.
• Processes miscellaneous paperwork.
• Supports the process of planning, organizing, and staffing electrical construction projects.
• Ensures specific tasks associated with safety, productivity, task tracking and quality are completed according to customers’ expectations.
• Attends weekly and monthly meetings (i.e., Staffing Meeting, Project Manager Meeting, Sales Meeting, etc.).
• Supports activities associated with partnering with Talent to optimize recruiting and selection, employee relations, and other related topics as it pertains to direct reports.
• Promotes the merit shop philosophy by ensuring effective, fair, and timely performance evaluations for all employees.
• Visits various projects and interacts with crew, customers, foreman, and general contractors to ensure proper job progress and to support and encourage safe behavior.
• Supports the review of outgoing estimates with the Estimating Department to ensure accuracy.
• Effectively delegates direct reports with proper control systems in place to ensure accountability and to prevent decision making bottlenecks.
• Provides frequent and clear feedback to direct reports, offers clear direction, and ensures direct reports are sure about their goals.
• Organizes direct reports into a productive team to encourage synergy.
• Acts as coach and developer of managerial talent; as well as skillfully selects and trains those individuals.
• Evaluates candidates' and managers' willingness to lead, communication and planning competencies, and ability to make decisions under pressure.
• Assigns team and project-leadership assignments to assess skill/ability.
• Spends ample time evaluating people in 'test' managerial roles.
• Holds managers who report to him/her accountable for managerial work.
• Deploys and redeploys resources among managers' areas.
• Manages the boundaries that separate units which report directly and with other parts of the business.
• Monitors the flow of work between his/her unit and others in the organization; asking questions and recommending improvements.
• Understands and conveys functional strategies, business strategies, and corporate mission.
• Fosters effective cross-functional collaborations to accelerate work processes.
• Creates a supportive environment that allows mistakes but not failure (motivates and instructs; shares positive and…