Project Manager

**Job Title**: Project Manager (Construction Emphasis)

**Reports To**: General Manager | **Other Relationships**: Service & Installation Team/Sales Team

**Job Location**: 3150 Premier Drive, Suite 128, Irving, TX 75063 (50% domestic travel required)

**About Austco**:
Austco is a global manufacturer of hospital and clinical communications hardware and software. We make innovative products that help nurses and caregivers as they care for their patients. Established in Perth, Australia in 1986, Austco builds the most advanced nurse call and clinical communications technology in the world. Austco's corporate head office is located in Melbourne, Australia. Our international offices are in the USA, Canada, the UK, Singapore, and New Zealand. The R&D and Order Fulfillment business units are based in Dallas, Texas.

**Primary Purpose**:
**Responsibilities/Job Duties**:
**PLANNING**
- Identifies and understands project goals, objectives, and scope to create a project plan.
- Clearly outline tasks, timelines and resources required.
- Develop contingency plans for any scheduling uncertainties.

**DOCUMENTATION**
- Create Gantt charts using MS Project.
- Record meeting minutes and provide weekly project updates.
- Material tracking reports.
- Consistent usage of MS Project, Work, Excel Outlook and Visio.

**MANAGEMENT**
- Continuously monitor project dependencies and schedules.
- Manage issues that may arise, such as missed deadlines, cost overruns and scope creep.
- Partner with engineers, general contractors, electrical contractors, etc.
- Regularly attend project site meetings.
- Oversee change notice processes.
- Ensure installations maintain a level of high-quality work.
- Manage progress billing schedules.
- Continuously create ways to motivate and lead the project teams.
- Measure customer satisfaction rates at the end of each project, capturing customer feedback in order to gain, maintain and improve long-term customer relationships.

**EVALUATING AND REPORTING**
- Track and report project team hours.
- Analyze project profitability.
- Regularly communicate project status to senior management.
- Project invoicing and budgeting by working with the Accounting team and senior management.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Experience in a construction environment (5+years).
- Experience with low voltage systems, install (5+years).
- Experience working directly with General Contractors, internal and external clients and vendors.
- PMP Certification strongly preferred.
- Technical project manager experience, preferred.
- Skills in business, management, budgeting and analysis.
- Understanding of invoicing and billing for projects.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing projects.
- Must be able to travel within the US (up to 50%).

**VALUES AND COMPETENCIES**
- Customer service focused.
- Must have strong leadership and communication skills.
- Strong documentation development.
- Possess a strong sense of integrity and honesty.

**BEHAVIORS**
- Demonstrate strong time management skills.
- Highly organized, detail and solution oriented.
- Possess a positive attitude and is polite in nature.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and ability to support team development and to inspire and motivate others.
- Self-motivated and take initiative.
- Ability to work effectively in an interrupt-driven, fast-paced, and rapidly changing environment.

**BENEFITS OVERVIEW**
- Competitive compensation, depending on experience.
- Healthcare including Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, and a company Wellness Program.
- Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance and 401k contributions and a company match (3%).
- Paid company holidays, PTO and Sick days.
- Dependent Care Summer Camp Reimbursement Program.
- Employee Referral Program.
- Professional Development Assistance.
- Team Lunches and Happy Hours.
- Relaxed dress code (Service Technicians will be required to where an Austco branded shirt that is provided by the company).
- Austco Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all persons. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against because of race, creed, origin, marital status, sexual orientation, age, otherwise qualified disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law._

Pay: $75,000.00-$95,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Paid time off
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Construction: 5 years (required)
- Low voltage: 5 years (required)
- Customer relationship management: 3 years (required)
- Technical project management: 5 years (preferred)
- Budgeting: 5 years (required)
- Business analysis: 5 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- PMP (preferred)

Willingness to travel:

- 50% (required)

Work Location: In person