What are the responsibilities and job description for the PROJECT MANAGER position at STOREY KENWORTHY?
At Storey Kenworthy | Workspace, we’ve brought together two brands and have one vision, to provide solutions for all your office needs! At SK| Workspace you can impact the way people work. We believe in Empowering and Inspiring People to Live and Work Better. Whether it’s designing, selling, or installing a workspace, or providing tools and resources for our customers to do their job, the work you do makes a difference in people’s lives. We get it. Work can feel just like work sometimes. But we also know that it is so much easier to look forward to work when there is a reason behind it all. Our organization cares about our employees wellbeing and we inspire our workforce to succeed within our four walls and outside our four walls. And to us, that is a pretty cool reason to do what we do every day.
Workspace believes in creating extraordinary spaces by thinking about people, technology, and space as being a single ecosystem. We create spaces that empower people to learn, work, and heal better. Simply put, we create amazing workspaces. With offices throughout the state of Iowa (Ames, Des Moines, Hiawatha/Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, and Coralville/ Iowa City) we offer local service for your office furniture needs.
Can you handle the pressure of putting fires out, managing multiple projects, working with all types of people (sales, design, general contractors, clients, and our operation, all while being the ‘glue’ from start of the project with estimation to final punch.
The Project Manager is responsible for managing Furniture Operations projects from beginning to end via planning, logistics coordination and execution. The Project Manager coordinates project details with the customer, sales, design, and installation teams ensuring all projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the customer’s satisfaction. Project Managers are expected to provide the ultimate customer experience and are responsible for regularly assessing and identifying process improvement opportunities.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinates project details with sales, design, and installation teams; schedules pre-install meetings.
- Quotes and schedules installation work; validates orders, dates, and delivery schedules.
- Coordinates equipment and truck schedules for crew; communicates logistics at customers’ site.
- Coordinates staff needed to execute projects; reviews job folders with Lead Installers.
- Visits job sites during each phase of project (quote, pre-install, install, and post install) assessing project needs, space / location and results.
- Monitors project changes and executes scope change fees as necessary.
- Leads post install walk through; processes and schedules post install punch list.
- Manages and maintains project data in system; enters product and/or service orders; collects and reports actual project hours and cost in system; close delivery and or/service tickets.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational / Experience Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Logistics or Construction Management with a minimum of 3 years’ related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience; project management certification preferred; experience in project management and logistics coordination; experience leading projects through a variety of teams is preferred; experience reading and working with blue prints and design renderings.
