Project Manager I

Summary:
This role will provide proactive planning to manage risk, remove barriers and meet company goals for project management through organizing, planning, and scheduling assigned projects. Demonstrating a strong aptitude for monitoring, controlling, executing the closing customer projects in order to drive revenue.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• First point of contact with General Contractors and collaborate with Operations.
• Manage assigned projects based on either volume or revenue.
• Review job plans for specific equipment and materials, ensuring on hand and available (job takeoffs).
• Review with engineering on work performed or to be performed, confirming quantities and verifying requirements.
• Read and understand plans and provisions for traffic control needs.
• Assist in resolving quantity differences working with the Billing and Contracts department.
• Create work order job tickets for Operations based upon customer calls and expectations.
• Process utility company requests through the JULIE Call System.
• Take calls from company drivers regarding work order questions (trouble shoot issues that arise on job sites).
• Respond to urgent and/or daily calls from contractors for assigned work or other services.
• Schedule inhouse work orders and hand them off to production for execution.
• Utilizing the Barricade order system, create project specific work order tickets.
• Other projects and initiatives that drive organizational goals and results.

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• None

Education, Certifications & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, project management or similar discipline preferred, or equivalent.
• 3-5 years project management experience in Highway, Construction or Service-related industry.
• Above average knowledge of Microsoft Office and/or Project Management software desired.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must have strong problem-solving skills and a desire to create solutions.
• Maintain a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Must have the ability to work in sensitive and confidential situations.
• Prior experience working under tight deadlines with changing priorities.
• Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from internal or external customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated with a high sense of urgency.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport and effective communication with diverse levels within the company and external organizations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions with ability to deal with abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a computer and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk, and hear. The employee is moderately required to stand and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Position will work in an office setting but may travel to off-site locations and therefore require wearing all PPE depending on circumstance which may include safety glasses, hard hat, ear protection, safety vest and/or steel toed footwear