Project Manager for Direct Hire

• Plans, estimates, negotiates, staffs, directs the work, and reconciles final billings on assigned projects.
• Meets or exceeds customers' realistic expectations for quality, productivity and safety on projects, and manages the customer relationship through any changes in the scope and price of the project to assure continuing customer satisfaction and profitable project closure.
• Works closely with the Contracting & Estimating Department to estimate, plan, execute and settle the projects. 
• Interprets specifications, plans project sequencing and coordinates the various phases of the project to prevent delays and avoid rework.  Ensures that change order requests and CFRs are properly written and approves them before providing them to the Project Management team.
• Confers with supervision and project management staff, and project inspectors and suppliers of materials, to resolve repair problems and to improve repair methods.
• Prepares periodic management reports on work progress, materials used and costs and adjusts work schedules as indicated by reports. Ensures adherence to the work process.
• Leads the project team in a postmortem review of each completed project, and assures complete documentation and dissemination of all lessons learned in order to capture best practices and to avoid repeating mistakes.
• The Project Manager plays an active role in managing or providing oversight for the subcontractor and/or vendor performance on the project, including setting expectations for such groups
• Monitors job progress and uses earned value management techniques to identify problem areas and forecast costs. Reports on project performance.

• BS in a technical discipline, or a relevant amount of experience, is required. 
• An advanced degree is preferred in a technical discipline associated with ship repair such as marine engineering.
• Minimum one (1) year of progressively more complex work experience that demonstrates in-depth ship repair and production knowledge.
• A minimum of three (3) years of project management experience is required.
• The critical criterion is specific, demonstrated success in planning, staffing, coordinating and profitably executing multi-trade, extensive, labor-intensive, multi-phased projects.

Salary : $80,000 - $110,000