What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at National OnDemand, Inc.?
Company Description
National OnDemand, Inc. is a communications and utilities infrastructure provider serving the Fiber, Wireless, Energy, and Technology sectors across the United States. Headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina, the company delivers turnkey infrastructure solutions on demand, achieving significant growth through mergers, acquisitions, and organic expansion. Committed to its employees, National OnDemand offers sustainable career opportunities in the telecommunications industry, along with training programs to develop skilled professionals. The organization also offers competitive pay, benefits, and a focus on investing in its team and the communities it serves.
Role Description
The Project Manager will manage day to day project level schedules, financials, status internal/external. Manages baseline responsibilities for successful projects. Active participant in the day-to-day work leading towards Project Schedule and Budget attainment. Leads our project team to exceed their construction execution and financial project goals by maintaining a focus on customer requirements and schedule attainment.
As a Project Manager, you will develop new skills, work in a customer-focused team environment, and join us in expanding network technology for a better community.
Primary Position Duties:
- Lead cross-functional efforts between internal and field project teams to ensure on-budget and on-schedule delivery for the customer.
- Create high level project plan and milestone (design, notice to proceed, locate, permit, construction, splicing, closeout) schedule for multi-year Construction projects utilizing project management software
- Management of multiple short duration projects and multi-year projects that range from engineering through construction closeout.
- Manage project level financials based on project milestones to ensure proper revenue recognition during project lifecycle, including project invoicing
- Ensure projects meet milestones, schedules, or timeline requirements. Notify and coordinate between internal teams change in project scope and design change from customer
- Provide timely project status updates to manager and drives proactive communication across teams to reduce risks and obstacles
- Responsible for reviewing daily production and developing forecasts for the month and identifying material, labor, or customer driven delays
- Attends meetings and conference calls with the customer or corporate staff to support the efforts of project
- Support and analyze project finances to reconcile variances in project budgets, client invoicing, special invoicing (bid work, area wide protection), and payments
- Drive reduction in cycle time of PO billing by ensuring proper work close out and documentation packages are properly prepared
- Liaise with Account Receivable team to investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies
- Support bid process for new projects by reviewing RFPs and laying out schedule and coordinating between teams (Operations, BD) to ensure timely submission
- Develop and maintain bid database to analyze pricing
- Assist in developing reports and communications to external customer(s).
- Build processes and teams required to deliver all project requirements.
- Coordinate with the Project Construction Lead for timing, execution, and closeout of individual projects.
- Lead weekly meetings with the project team.
- Review crew maps, timesheets, and daily production logs as necessary to ensure accuracy in information across teams.
- Perform other duties as required and/or assigned.