Commissioning Project Manager

Company Description

Motz Engineering is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Security, and Information Technology Design. Our primary focus is on providing innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions for renovated and new buildings. We work with a wide range of clients with a strategic focus in Aviation, Healthcare, Datacenter and Industrial facilities other areas of expertise include K-12 schools, higher education institutions, government facilities, corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, and sports venues.

As an Ohio Certified EDGE MEP & Commissioning Engineering Firm and City of Cincinnati WBE Certified Engineering Firm, we are committed to providing quality engineering solutions coupled with diversity and inclusion.

1.     Summary

The project manager oversees all aspects of the commissioning projects using planning, monitoring and controlling processes. The project manager is responsible for coordination and completion of the project and to this end will perform a variety of tasks including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of the project. The project manager may be responsible for more than one project at a time.

2.     Core Responsibilities

Planning and problem-solving tasks

·      The Project Manager is responsible for planning the project in order to accomplish its goals or produce the products required within constraints such as time, cost and agreed quality standards.

·      The Project Manager is responsible for maintaining the project budget

·      The Project Manager must continuously monitor progress in terms of the status of the plan and the budget and report back to the Director of Commissioning via weekly or other progress reporting.·      The Project Manager must anticipate and catch deviations from the plan or schedule as early as possible and keep all participants and stakeholders informed.·      The Project Manager should identify, log, analyse and manage potential and actual issues and risks, taking corrective action by tackling day-to-day issues head on and reviewing how more serious issues and risks might impact on scope, schedule, quality and cost.

·      The Project Manager should identify where and when management of issues and risks or accommodating altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and where efficiencies can be made.

Communicating tasks

·      The Project Manager should be able to articulate and negotiate consensus on a final vision of the product and/or the core project goals.

·      The Project Manager should be capable of defining acceptance criteria or work with specialists to define acceptance criteria for project deliverables and works towards stakeholder acceptance.

Team management tasks

·      The Project Manager will identify the need for resources, and should subsequently take on team management responsibilities in relation to the resources available to the project.

·      The Project Manager may work directly with the team members or with their team leaders to estimate effort, plan activities and negotiate consensus among individual team members on their appointed tasks.

·      Alternatively, the work or parts of the work may be done by third party subcontractors, managed and coordinated by the Project Manager.

·      The Project Manager should be able to create and use Gantt charts, spreadsheets or other appropriate tools to manage people and tasks and keep up-to-date.

·      A Project Manager may need to be experienced in providing a team with direction and vision, including motivating people to perform, listening to people, providing feedback, recognizing strengths and providing challenges.

·      The Project Manager is likely to be responsible for bringing the project to a close, which may include creating an end of project report or evaluation document, and capturing and using relevant lessons learned.

Technical and quality tasks

·      Without necessarily being an expert, the Project Manager should make an effort to understand the technology being used in order to understand and question requests coming from specialists and technical staff and to evaluate what is reasonable or possible.

·      The Project Manager must have an understanding of relevant methodologies, processes and standards and ensures that all project team members understand and follow these also.

·      The Project Manager is responsible for the project’s commitment to quality – also referred to as fitness for purpose or specification level and may need to call on specialists to assist in creating or assessing quality standards.

Organizing tasks

·      The Project Manager may need to generate many types of documents including requirement specifications, contracts, schedules, project reports, communication (email) records, design specifications, meeting agendas, minutes and status reports.

·      Able to engage in business development opportunities and represent Motz Engineering to clients and other industry experts.

3.     Supervisory Responsibilities

·      Subcontractors

·      Commissioning Engineers

·      Commissioning Technicians

·      Co-Ops, when required

4.     Qualifications, future educational requirements.

·      5 Years of experience in the Cx Agent role within a commissioning business in the performance of commissioning services.

·      Engineering Degree or relative professional experience

·      Project Management or other relevant certification

·      Attend relevant commissioning conferences for continuing education

5.     Core Competencies

·      Able to work as a team and lead a group of people to a common goal.

·      Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

·      Energetic and driven.

·      Able to work both independently and as a member of a team.

·      Not afraid to get hands dirty and do “real work.”

·      Able to work under pressure and establish priorities.