Project Manager | Phoenix area

HazTek Inc.•Phoenix, AZ

9d•Onsite

About The Position

HazTek is growing and hiring a Project Manager in the Phoenix, AZ area. This role is crucial for managing assigned Project Safety Advisors (PSA), ensuring quality work product, and overseeing overall program execution. The Project Manager will provide problem-solving and technical support to PSAs, drive performance, and collaborate with various internal departments like human resources, operations, and finance to meet client expectations. The company emphasizes a culture where people matter and offers opportunities for growth within a fast-paced construction safety environment.

Requirements

High School Diploma, or equivalent.
Five (5) years of experience in a role that managed 10 or more individuals.
Three (3) years of experience in a project management or operations management role.
Three (3) years of experience in managing the full employee employment life cycle.
OSHA 30 Hour Construction or General Industry.
Construction industry experience.
Experience with using CRM technologies to manage the customer and project relationship.
Experience managing a decentralized, field-based team.
Experience in a process-driven environment.
Valid driver's license.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, or related field, or a discipline related to environmental, health and safety or equivalent experience in a sale/business development role and/or delivering health and safety services.
Experience with Salesforce CRM.
Experience with HSE management systems, auditing, and safety culture-building, market trends, best practices, and innovations.
Experience in a specific construction discipline (e.g., data center, refinery, marine, pharmaceutical, environment, remediation, electrical, bridge, highway, steel erection, excavating, dredging, etc.).
Industry certification (e.g., CSP, ASP, CHST, OHST, STSC, STS).

Responsibilities

Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of PSA services.
Ensure adherence to strategic client standards, policies, practices, and expectations.
Review activity levels and provide quality assurance.
Identify, communicate, and reinforce changes in expectations and scope of work.
Work with HazTek Sales Leader, Logistics, Recruiting, and other stakeholders to identify new PSAs to build the project team.
Identify quality talent by interviewing candidates to evaluate their technical safety knowledge, competencies, soft skills, leadership abilities, and fit for strategic client.
Coordinate resource hiring activities, including profile generation, client interviews, employment offers, start date confirmation, onboarding, and check-ins.
Update internal and external stakeholders on candidate and client status.
Ensure delivery excellence for all strategic client projects, including quality and timeliness of deliverables & reporting.
Communicate regularly and consistently with key stakeholders and client/project representatives to ensure service satisfaction and proactively identify concerns.
Build and foster multilevel relationships with client stakeholders.
Address employee performance concerns proactively, consult with appropriate stakeholders for assistance, and support QTS with planned and unplanned Client Directed Removals (CDRs) and HazTek Directed Removals (HDRs).
Ensure a smooth transition of personnel at the project level, including cross-training, CDR/HDR coverage, and filling routine voids.
Conduct root cause analysis and problem-solving.
Identification and management of scope of work.
Manage & mitigate conflicts and disputes.
Assist with employee timesheet submissions and approvals.
Assist with PO management, requests for change orders, and the movement of resources.
Manage a group of approximately 30-50 PSAs that are remotely located.
Manage a team of 3-4 regional Client Supervisors.
Mitigate employee issues.
Meet regularly with employees, either in person or via MS Teams.
Be readily available for phone calls and consultations.
Create a work culture that fosters trust, fairness, consistency, and sharing ideas by modeling HazTek’s Core Values, communicating clear expectations, and taking advantage of every touchpoint.
Forecast future hiring needs.
Communicate and coordinate hiring needs with Logistics, Operations, Recruiting, and other key stakeholders.
Ensure candidate profiles clearly meet strategic client expectations.
Present profiles and candidates to strategic client in a timely manner.
Present verbal offers to candidates, negotiate salaries and other terms of employment, and establish new employees’ start dates.
Reward and recognize employees for their contributions.
Ensure employees are prepared to meet the demands of the strategic client’s PSA role.
Provide employees with career development and learning opportunities.
Conduct employee performance reviews.
Create and implement Performance Improvement Plans.
Implement disciplinary actions.
Career coaching and planning.
Evaluate communication skills (verbal, visual, written (email, text, reporting)), identify strengths and weaknesses and coach for improved performance.
Complete time reporting weekly to include appropriate allocation – project billable, business development, admin, PTO, etc. and expense reporting monthly following approved procedures and using available technologies.
Serve as a company ambassador and champion of change.
Respond to emergency situations with speed and efficiency.
Attend scheduled and ad hoc meetings with HazTek stakeholders for candidate pipeline review, operations, project review, etc.
Ensure employees are properly completing their client timesheets, Deltek time entries, UKG PTO requests and expense reports.
Visit project sites regularly and on an as needed basis.
Participate in strategic client Monthly Safety Meeting.
Participate in Cost-to-Coast HazTek Discussion meeting, every 3 weeks.
Participate in Monthly Safety Sync Meeting.
Provide regularly scheduled site visits.
Conduct Gap Assessments.
Perform Incident Investigations.
Conduct Onsite Training.
Perform Hazard Risk Assessments.
Conduct Compliance Audits.
Perform contractor safety performance or program evaluations.
Conduct Cultural Assessments.
Provide weekly or monthly reporting.