Project Manager - Facilities

Project Manager Facilities

Kansas City sits on Missouri's western edge, straddling the border with Kansas. It's known for its barbecue, jazz heritage and fountains. Downtown, the American Jazz Museum shares a building with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with giant shuttlecocks out front, houses nearly 40,000 works of art, from ancient to contemporary collections.

Overlooking the Missouri River from downtown Kansas City, Missouri, this 11-story, crescent-shaped courthouse includes 16 courtrooms, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, judges' chambers, U.S. Attorney's office, U.S. Marshals offices and other court-related agencies. Amenities include extensive multimedia conferencing facilities, a cafeteria, secured parking and a historical gallery highlighting the Western District of Missouri. The gallery is open to the public and includes interactive stations for learning.

Position Overview

Directs activities of workers engaged in operating and maintaining facilities and equipment in project facilities by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates to comply with customer and corporate directives to ensure statutory, regulatory, contractual and corporate obligations are fulfilled. Serves as a liaison between the customer and contractor.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides direct control over all day-to-day aspects of the contract and exercises broad latitude for independent judgment and discretion without direct or intermediate supervision.
• Communicates customer needs, suggestions and opinions to appropriate corporate staff. Serves as the primary link between the customer and the company.
• Provides objective insight and expertise critical to the development of a responsive operating project.
• Ensures that all emergencies are responded to immediately.
• Implements the Quality Control (QC) Program and other plans for the project.
• Conducts inspections to assure that quality and performance are in conformance with the QC Plan.
• Implements systematic and effective operational techniques and workflow procedures that will enhance efficiency and quality.
• Monitors training programs.
• Produce reports and maintain records of all inspections performed and ensure all records/reports are filed and submitted as required.
• Serves as on-site Contract Administrator, responsible for all matters pertaining to contract operations.
• Interprets contract specifications and translates outcome into workforce efforts.
• Initiates and completes change order requests to a pre-authorized level.
• Provides training suggestions and/or revisions to the Operations Manager for review prior to submittal.
• Establishes and maintains an effective cost control system.
• Manages project expenditures within authorized budget limits.
• Assists in recruitment, screening and hiring of all project associates.
• Responsible for site compliance with training and safety requirements as communicated in the Operations Manual.
• Enforce the workplace Policy as stated in the Employee Handbook. Ensures rules and regulations related to payroll, benefits, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action are followed and documented on appropriate standard forms.
• Ensures fair treatment and high morale of associates is maintained.
• Provides cross training to maintain position redundancy.
• Promotes career progression by hiring associates capable of moving into key positions.
• Establishes personnel performance objectives, monitors results.
• Administers verbal and/or written performance tests as required.
• Coordinates changes between the on-site workforce and the corporate staff.

Qualifications

• US Citizen
• Minimum of 3-years of recent (within the past 5 years) experience in the management and supervision of building mechanical maintenance operations.
• Minimum of 1-year of verifiable IBM Tivoli Maximo Asset Management CMMS experience or a certificate of basic IBM Tivoli Maximo Asset Management CMMS training is required Documentation of at least one year of verifiable Niagara EMCS experience or a certificate of basic Niagara EMCS training. This experience shall include activities related to programming, troubleshooting, configuration, and systems startup.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with National Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (NCMMS) or eMaint software
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications (MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook and MS PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability with the English language (reading, writing and oral communication)
• Working knowledge of office equipment (printers, copiers/scanners and fax machines
• Ability to pass a background check

Competencies

• Project Management
• Technical Capacity
• Communications Proficiency
• Problem Solving/Analysis

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