Siemens

Fire Alarm Systems Associate Project Manager

Siemens$60K — $103K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • Experience with fire alarm systems or related fields
  • On-the-job or educational project management or engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
  • Must be 21 years or older and have a valid driver's license
  • Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

Responsibilities

  • Support project managers throughout project phases
  • Develop and present status and progress reports to stakeholders
  • Manage small-scale projects, including finance and scheduling
  • Track project progress and resources; participate in customer meetings
  • Document project events affecting acceptance and efficiency
  • Schedule commissioning resources; ensure documentation review before site visits
  • Drive timely completion of project close-out documentation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits available
  • Access to personal and professional growth opportunities
  • Supportive team environment focused on customer satisfaction
Full Job Description
Associate Project Managers are responsible for supporting the Project Management team with the successful execution of projects, from project initiation through final closeout. You will work in a matrix style organization requiring excellent coordination skills and the ability to manage competing priorities. The Associate Project Manager role comes with ample opportunities for growth, reflective of Siemens mission to empower people with a growth mindset. As a customer-facing team, we keep customer satisfaction at the forefront as we manage large projects in a fast-paced environment.

As an Associate Project Manager, you will:
  • Support the project manager during all phases of the project including milestone deliverables, documentation, case management, and financial aspects.
  • Develop and deliver monthly status reports, customer progress reports, customer change proposals, and presentations to management and internal/external stakeholders on an as-needed basis and drive final customer acceptance milestones including completion of all documentation requirements, including commissioning, acceptance, and closing financial documentation.
  • Organize and deliver small-scale projects while being responsible for managing the finance, schedule, change orders, and customers and coordinate to develop and maintain a project schedule and coordinate needs with the project and site teams. Identify time-sensitive project needs.
  • Track resources and project progress. Participate in customer meetings, drive them on behalf of project managers as needed and capture notes during all phases of the project: from project start to close and punch list meetings and capture punch list from site commissioning and drive closure through close coordination with Siemens field service technicians, customer care team, project managers, factory personnel and vendors. Attend meetings with customer and Siemens site team to update on progress site punch list.
  • Document project events that impact the acceptance schedule, scope of work, and project efficiency, identify solutions and review with project manager to drive actions to minimize schedule and cost impact to the project and orientate for project field service technicians and provide all necessary project documentation, including scope of work, drawings, applicable specifications, application-engineered drawings, project contacts, etc.
  • Schedule project-specific commissioning resources and provide commissioning documentation and ensure field service personnel scheduled to visit project sites have reviewed project documentation ahead of site visit.
  • Expedite the return of project-specific mark-ups during project development and support completion of project-specific close-out documentation and own and drive all aspects of the close milestone processing to achieve timely and clean project quality gates.
  • Work in a team environment providing dedicated support to our customers.

You will make an impact with these qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
  • High School Diploma or state-recognized GED
  • On-the-job or educational experience with:
    • Fire alarm systems or related; Must be able to demonstrate the ability to read and understand basic electrical drawings and customer specifications.
    • Project management or engineering
  • Experience using Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project
  • Must be 21 years of age and possess a valid driver's license with limited violations
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States on a continual and permanent basis without company sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Construction industry experience
  • Associate degree in engineering or related field
  • Technical experience in the commercial fire and life safety industry
  • Knowledgeable in local and national (NFPA) fire alarm codes and regulations; ability to read and understand drawings and specifications, and electrical, network, and control wiring diagrams

You'll benefit from:
  • Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html

The pay range for this position is $60,476 - $103,673 annually with a target incentive of 5% of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.

Ready to create your own journey? Join us today.

About Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
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