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Watterson Environmental Group

Project Manager

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In-Office
Schaumburg, IL, USA
52K-80K
Mid level
In-Office
Schaumburg, IL, USA
52K-80K
Mid level
Manages emergency and facility projects from initiation through completion, overseeing planning, scheduling, budgeting, risks, changes, client communication, subcontractors, and delivery. Supervises and trains Project Coordinators, monitors multiple concurrent projects, resolves conflicts and dependencies, and maintains strong relationships with clients, owners, team members, and subcontractors. The role requires work across office and active construction-site environments, including travel to project locations.
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Description

Position Summary:

The Project manager is responsible for the overall direction of Emergency and Facility work orders and client satisfaction. The Project Manager will handle the lifecycle of emergency and facility client projects by planning, scheduling, budgeting and maintaining close contact with the client and their needs. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. The Senio Project Manager may oversee and supervise Project Coordinators, will serve and train new team members and may handle larger projects.  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several major and minor initiatives simultaneously.
  • Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization. 
  • Managing any direct reports of Project Coordinators by overseeing their work orders and providing additional guidance and training as needed.
  • Initiate and maintain liaison with owners and other contacts to facilitate project activities.
  • Monitor, track and control outcomes for numerous projects simultaneously to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
  • Proactively develop relationships with the subcontractor community. 

Skills/Traits/Competencies

  • Effective Communicator: Works effectively with people outside formal authority to accomplish goals. Consistently communicates with clarity and thoroughness to optimize audience understanding. Communicates information in a clear, concise, and timely manner. Demonstrates effective speaking and presentation skills.
  • Peer Relationships: Easily gains trust and support of peers and encourages collaboration. Represents his/her own interest while being fair to other groups; seen as a team player; quickly finds common ground and solves problems for the good of all; is candid with peers.
  • Collaboration/Relationship Building: Develops and maintains effective working relationships with team members, internal partners, customers and other through the use of strong interpersonal skills. Obtains cooperation from others; seeks and encourages win-win alternatives. Works effectively with people outside formal authority to accomplish goals
  • Problem Solving: Asks good questions and probes all sources for answers; sees underlying or hidden patterns; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers. Uses rigorous logic and methods to analyze and understand why problems occur; generates and implements creative, cost effective and realistic solutions.
  • Project Management: Effectively uses the company's systematic approach to planning, organizing, directing, supervising and accomplishing the goals of a project(s) requirements and activities to meet objectives. Includes balancing the task requirements within the constraints of schedules and budgets.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • EAP
  • STD/LTD
  • Basic Life and AD&D
  • Voluntary Life
  • Supplemental: Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
  • Cell Phone Stipend
  • 401(k)
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays

Watterson is an Equal Employment Opportunity and E-Verify employer.

Disclaimer: This job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or competencies. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description based on business need.

Requirements

Experience/Education/Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in facilities management, engineering, or property management. (preferred)
  • At least 4 years of work experience, with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role, ideally managing people. 
  • Valid Driver’s license in good standing

Physical Requirements

  • Ability to work in both office and active construction site environments.
  • Frequent walking, standing, and climbing stairs on construction sites.
  • Ability to navigate uneven terrain and varying weather conditions.
  • Occasional bending, kneeling, crouching, and lifting up to 25 lbs.
  • Prolonged periods of sitting and computer use.
  • Ability to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Ability to travel to project sites as needed.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

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