Project Manager

Summary: An ECOM Project Manager ("PM") is the leader of a project team and the person responsible for the timely completion of ECOM's construction projects consistent with ECOM's employee manual, safety manual and Quality Assurance Manual. The PM is ECOM's liaison to the owner and the primary point of contact for the owner's consultants, project staff, subcontractors and suppliers. The PM is a role model, projecting the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, personal conduct, diversity, inclusion and the safety of others.

The PM's ability to enhance the ECOM brand is dependent upon their ability to apply their interpersonal, organizational and technical skills to deliver construction projects ahead of schedule and under budget. The PM utilizes ECOM's policies and systems to ensure that production and profit goals are achieved without sacrificing quality standards exposing workers to unsafe conditions.

A project is a team effort, requiring a motivated and capable staff, a proactive and thoughtful plan and an expectation of challenges along the way. The PM is responsible for managing their staff, periodically assessing their strengths and weaknesses and working with each individual to achieve continuous, measurable improvements of their interpersonal, professional and technical skills. The PM works with their operations Manager or/and VP of Construction to ensure that their projects are properly staffed, evaluations are completed and development plans are being pursued.

In summary, the Project Manager is a critical role model; the skilled, experienced and empowered team player that our operational team members aspire to become. He or she is aware, available and engaged in the business interests of ECOM. Below is a profile of the ideal Project Manager:

Culture & Policy

1.An ECOM Project Manager understands and follows company employees, safety and quality policies and procedures. When the PM becomes aware of policies or procedures that seem inefficient, puzzlingor ineffective, the PM works with the Operations Manager to review the circumstances and explorespecific changes that would better achieve the objective of the policy or procedure in question.

2.An ECOM Project Manager understands that construction projects require diligent plans and controls toensure that workplace hazards are anticipated and eliminated or managed to ensure worker safety.

3.PM understands that the quality of ECOM work is a long-lasting statement about the quality of our services.

4.An ECOM PM is able to treat co-workers and vendors with respect despite the high pressure situations that arecommon to their duties.

5.An ECOM PM embraces the notion that we all perform better when we are enjoying our work, overcoming challenges, learning and winning. The ECOM PM leads by example, sharing both wins and lessons learned appropriately.

Supervision & Professional Development

6.An ECOM PM is a champion of continuous personal and professional development; embracing and promoting opportunities for all employees to cultivate skills, learn from mistakes and share lessons learned with others.

7.The PM accommodates specific or strategic requests from the Executive team and utilizes staff resources toimplement directives with delegated ownership in the outcome.

8.The PM is the primary supervisor of the superintendent, project engineer and assistant superintendent. The PMdemonstrates ownership of each staff member’s performance.

9.At all times the PM is evaluating the sufficiency and effectiveness of the Superintendent, Project Engineer andAssistant Superintendent training manuals and their content; making formal recommendations to the OM asimprovements are identified.

10.The PM guides the creation, tracking and adjustment of personnel development plans for the Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent(s) and Project Engineer(s) working on their projects. The PM embraces the role of setting and achieving goals that will benefit the employee, ECOM and its clients.

Marketing & Business Development

11.The PM has a large influence on whether ECOM will get a repeat project from a current client and is often conversing with contacts that could provide new opportunities. PM to conduct themselves, the site and all communications in a professional manner.

12.The PM participates in events promoting ECOM; engaging clients, architects and other project contacts toidentify new opportunities. When new opportunities are identified, the PM coordinates with executives,marketing and estimating to ensure responsive, timely and effective engagement.

13.The PM keeps their and their staff's resume's up to date in preparation for use in presentations and RFPs.

Scheduling & Proactive Planning

14.An ECOM PM recognizes that the timely completion of our projects is paramount. Project delivery delays createunwelcome work for our clients, reflect poorly on the ECOM brand and reduce the revenue generating capacityof our portfolio.

15.The PM is responsible for creating, publishing, communicating, administering, enforcing and adjusting theproject schedule. The PM works with the Superintendent to ensure that 4 week schedules are regularlyproduced and milestones achieved consistent with the critical path project schedule.

16.The PM and Superintendent are constantly looking for opportunities to accelerate the project schedule. Whenthe project experiences delay, the PM leads the staff to develop recovery plans and mitigation strategies.

17.The PM is transition manager for the Estimating / Purchasing department when conceptual budgets evolve tobecome a real project. The PM shall read and understand the Owner Agreement including change order andbilling requirements. The PM shall develop preliminary General Conditions Budgets, critical path schedules, andproject logistics that ensure that projects start on time and exceed scheduled production.

18.An ECOM PM consistently monitors the operational performance of the projects assigned to them. Evaluating reports and schedules and site conditions to discover opportunities to expedite delivery, reduce costs and expand the knowledge base of site personnel.

19.An ECOM PM regularly proposes success stories and lessons learned from past and curretn projects to help project teams capitalize on opportunities and avoid repeating mistakes

Budgeting & Billings Management

20.The PM recognizes the importance of accurate budgets and revenue projections. PM embraces its role as a facilitator of information transfer, problem solving and cash flow.

21.An ECOM PM understands their role in supporting the billing cycles that occur each month; recognizing that ECOM and its vendors depend upon timely payments to meet financial and schedule obligations.

22.The PM uses their familiarity with ECOM's scope of work, contract documents, sub-tier agreements to ensure that billings are accurate and properly formatted.

23.The PM constantly updates a log of Opportunities and Issues that could impact the cost or schedule of the project.

24.PM is responsible for receiving and evaluating instructions and site conditions to identify potential impacts to the project cost or schedule. When instructions or conditions warrant a change in price or duration of the project, PM timely prepares Pending Change Orders to the owner and diligently pursues their approval.

25.The PM is an expert on ECOM's obligations to the owner and its vendors. PM causes sub-tier scopes of work to be developed and immediately communicates any perceived "gaps", budget or production concerns to purchasing.

26.The PM coordinates and leads a preconstruction meeting with each sub-tier contractor. PM ensures that scope, pricing and site logistics are completely understood and agreed to prior to issuing a notice to proceed to a vendor.

27.When changes to sub-tier agreements are necessary, PM works to ensure that sub-tier estimates are accurate, fair and transparent. Whenever possible, PM uses its influence to optimize change impacts to benefit the owner and ECOM.

28.The PM is a problem solver focused on resolving disputes or non-compliance issues that could disrupt the planned completion of the project. The PM is able to appreciate each parties position and develop solutions that are as fair as possible and responsive to ECOM's obligations to the owner.

29.The PM ensures that problems are solved according to agreements made; holding staff and vendors responsible for the timely execution of their roles in the solution.

Meetings & Communications

30.An ECOM PM leads all meetings with the Owner and participates strategically in meetings with consultants, utility providers, jurisdictional staff, vendors and suppliers.

31.The PM causes staff to track and regularly communicate the status of directives, RFIs, pending change orders, ASIs and Opportunities and Issues logs.

32.The PM ensures that meetings and their agendas are strategic, adequate and productive. PM ensures that accurate notes are taken, action items are assigned, and meeting notes are timely distributed to appropriate parties.

33.An ECOM PM participates in executive and company meetings as requested and contributes information and ideas appropriately.

34.ECOM PM prepares weekly project management reports and timely delivers these accurate reports to the Operations Manager.

35.The PM assures that all documents are being created according to current templates and stored according to the current Document Management Protocol.

Project Manager Duties:

A. Ensure that Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents and Project Engineers understand and conduct themselves according to the ECOM handbooks, manuals and protocol.

B. Work with the Operations Manager to identify changes and improvements to ECOM management and training materials.

C. Assist in the identification, research, development and deployment of:

a. Project-specific software, hardware and equipment

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Application Question(s):

• Will applicant be willing to go through a drug screen and background screening

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Construction: 5 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)
• OSHA 30 (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• El Paso, Texas 79935 (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $80,000 - $100,000