Controls Engineering Project Manager

Wunderlich-Malec Engineering (WM) is a 100% employee-owned ESOP and one of the largest and most well-established engineering companies in the United States. When you join WM you become part of a company that is:

• 100% employee-owned company with 40 years of industry history
• A Top 5 Systems Integrator Giant
• ENR top 500 firm 

We have a Controls Engineering Project Manager position available in Raleigh, NC. This position oversees daily operations and activities of a project(s) ranging in size from $250K to $2M . Responsibilities include ensuring the overall profitability of the project.

Management Responsibilities

• Develops and executes implementation plans for the project.
• Responsible for detailed knowledge of contractual terms, conditions, insurance, and scopes of work.
• Assigns work to meet overall project deadlines.
• Ensures that all project team members clearly understand the scope of W-M responsibilities.
• Develop schedules for WM and customer requirements.
• Evaluates progress on project(s) and details changes.
• Assign work to project teams.
• Responsible for all purchasing and subcontractor requirements.
• Responsible for the development of costs and proposal of change orders to contract scope.
• Develop and implement a cash flow plan for the project including A/R collections.
• Responsible for all project invoicing to the customer.
• Provides timely financial forecasts to W-M on costs, budgets, change orders, and schedules.
• Serves as W-M’s primary interface with the customer during the project's implementation phase.
• Ensures compliance with all regulations, codes, etc. as they apply to the contract and project(s).
• Technical writing including project definition and requirements, clearly delineated status reporting, process control sequence of operations, standard practices and procedures, scope of supply, requests for information, customer correspondence, and code commenting.
• Project documentation: task/periodic status reporting, percent complete estimating, production, and assembly of required project manuals, organization and maintenance of current network-based project files, phone transcripts, meeting minutes, I/O lists, preparing purchase orders, specifying instrumentation, preparing price quotes, etc.
• Some sales and marketing are involved. This includes the ability to identify sales opportunities, confidence in suggesting scope changes with justifications, ability to network across targeted industries, vision to try new marketing approaches, and willingness to take on new marketing responsibilities as needed.

 Other Responsibilities

• Interprets policies and procedures and ensures they are followed within the business unit.
• Oversees training and development of subordinate staff.
• Responsible for ensuring budgets are met for the business unit.
• Oversee and manage the entire project staff including engineers, technicians, and administrative support.
• The position is also responsible for managing major proposal development (when assigned).

Engineering Responsibilities

This position may be responsible for implementing conceptual design and technical review of projects, including both internal design efforts and client reviews.

• Manages higher complexity projects with expanded scopes of work
• Contract values range to $2M.
• Works independently of direct supervision but maintains communications with Business Unit management to ensure decisions/issues are addressed and are consistent with office and company practices.
• Responsible for coordination and support of sales organizational efforts for new work.

Minimum Requirements

Education

BS Degree in Engineering is preferred.  A business degree or other technical degree with equivalent experience may be substituted.

Experience

Minimum of seven years of experience is preferred including project management experience.

• A background in business development is highly desirable.
• Strong leadership and client relations skills are essential.
• Professional Project Management membership and accreditation by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus.

Physical Demands of Position

Seeing, color perception, hearing, clear speech, dexterity in hands, driving, and ability to travel distances.

Working Environment

Standard office environment:  frequent use of personal computer, facsimile/copy machines, and other miscellaneous office equipment.

*Job Descriptions are not exhaustive lists of all skills, responsibilities, or efforts associated with a job.  They reflect principal job elements essential for performing the job and evaluating performance.