Project Manager Senior

Acuity Inc. · United States

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at Job Summary We are presently recruiting for a Project Manager who will be responsible to maintain overall responsibility for managing project teams delivering annual project revenues of between $500K to $15M. This includes multiple or multi-site enterprise level projects from pre-booking to customer acceptance. Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Carry overall management of Building Automation projects with the following criteria in mind: customer satisfaction, collaborating with the sales team to meet agreed upon profit objectives and meeting or exceeding project completion schedules.
• Proactively participate in pre-bid reviews and sales-to-operations turnover meetings, and contribute to the accuracy of the estimate and project layout.
• Maintain overall correspondence responsibility for projects.
• Maintain overall financial responsibility for projects including: revenue generation and forecasting, costs, billing and overall profitability while pro-actively seeking to 'value engineer' projects to ensure zero or positive deviation from agreed upon objectives.
• Prepare and maintain all change orders, request for information and pricing correspondence with client.
• Coordinate all field activities for project construction management by developing project plans, schedules, time lines, and costs to complete estimates.
• Coordinate with Vendors and Subcontractors to assure competitive cost, best schedule and delivery for all project-related equipment, supply installations and construction services.
• Manage Vendors and Subcontractors to ensure quality control and project delivery on time and within budget, while meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
• Work within a customer-focused project delivery team to ensure customer and project commitments are met while focusing on key deliverables to customers such as submittals and customer acceptance plans for every project.
• Engage with customer to enhance their experience with the Distech Controls Solutions. Through hands on instruction in the use of the system tools.
• Embrace a continuous improvement spirit to all aspects of participating within a project delivery team.

• In light of the identified responsibilities, the following are specific deliverables that the position is designed to achieve.
• Ability to meet or exceed agreed upon profit objectives.
• Ability to develop project plans in advance of project activities to ensure that agreed upon customer satisfaction objectives are met.
• Ability to work within a customer focused delivery team and provide the necessary assistance to ensure commitments on key deliverables for customers acceptance
• Ability to maintain current and up-to-date knowledge of all products and services offered.
• Broad knowledge of contracting industry and business operation, to ensure compliance with company, industry, trade, and jurisdictional safety laws, standards, practices and codes.
• Ability to efficiently and effectively analyze plans, specifications, contract documents and codes to determine project requirements.
• Proven ability in successfully working on remote projects.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or more than 10 years of directly related experience as a Senior
• Automation Technician or Senior Applications Engineer.
• At least 8 years of experience in managing and engineering projects within the industry.
• At least 10 years experience in the Building Automation System industry.
• Expertise in the use of Building Automation System tools (Graphics and Programming tools) especially Niagara Framework, LonWorks and BACnet.
• Management of Multi-site deliveries.
• Computer Literate including Microsoft Office Suite, Smartsheet and other scheduling and planning tools.
• Excellent business acumen and an in-depth understanding of the construction and project management process.
• Experience in performance contracting and energy management is a plus.
• Knowledge in the mechanical, plumbing, power, lighting, lighting controls, and electrical industries.
• Knowledge of building, electrical and mechanical codes, standards and regulations.
• Knowledge of Contract Management, scope, terms and conditions review.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.