Project Manager

Schneider Electric•Las Vegas, NV

33d•Onsite

About The Position

Schneider Electric is looking for a Service Project Manager for the Las Vegas, NV area. This role involves overseeing daily onsite activities, managing service projects, quotes, and work orders, and allocating resources. The Project Manager will participate in project walkdowns, attend review meetings, facilitate requests, and communicate with stakeholders. Key responsibilities include documenting projects, preparing financial forecasts and billings, maximizing gross margin, managing schedules and budgets, and coordinating change orders. The role also involves working with the Service Delivery Manager on Service Agreements, collaborating with the warehouse for material handling, providing technical support and commissioning for simple control systems, performing quality control inspections, and ensuring team safety compliance.

Requirements

At least 5+ years’ combined experience as a BMS or Security Service Technician, Project Engineer or PM with equivalent industry experience.
Construction industry knowledge.
Strong communication skills.
Strong understanding of contracting procedures.
Experience with responsibilities such as project correspondence, documentation, timely notice of changes and claims, negotiation and subcontract and vendor management.
Organized, proactive, and can effectively communicate with customers as well as internal resources.
Significant industry knowledge and an advanced understanding of BMS Systems (Hardware, Software and Networking).
Technical capability, potentially including commissioning and start up of simple projects.
Ability to work under minimal supervision.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, both currently and moving forward.

Responsibilities

Oversee daily onsite activities, including service projects, service quotes, and time-and-material work orders, as well as on-demand service resource allocation.
Participate in walkdowns as required for projects in collaboration with Schneider Electric sales and designated Site Security staff.
Stay actively engaged in ongoing service projects to ensure successful implementation, which includes attending weekly project review meetings, facilitating requests for network IP coordination and resource allocation, and regularly communicating with key stakeholders to provide status updates and ensure prompt closure of associated work orders/projects.
Manage all associated tasks related to service projects, including documenting projects (RFIs, meeting minutes, punch lists, transmittal logs, submittal logs, change order logs, and issues logs).
Prepare project revenue forecasts, schedules of values, and billings.
Maximize gross margin improvement on all projects by leveraging labor efficiencies, outsourcing, and purchasing strategies to reduce costs.
Prepare and update project schedules and budgets.
Coordinate all change order reviews and pricing activities, including estimating and proposal creation.
Work with the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) to schedule tasks and manage hours associated with tasks outlined in Service Agreements (SAs).
Collaborate with the Schneider Electric Warehouse for deliveries and material handling.
Provide technical support and participate in basic field startup processes, including commissioning of simple control systems to ensure proper operation on small service projects.
Perform quality control inspections on all service projects.
Ensure the team aligns with customer safety protocols and site requirements.