Acuity Brands, Inc

Project Manager Senior

Acuity Brands, Inc • $83K — $164K *
Conyers, GA 30094In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or 10+ years related experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in managing engineering projects in Building Automation.
  • 10+ years of experience in the Building Automation System industry.
  • Expertise in Building Automation tools, particularly Niagara Framework, LonWorks, and BACnet.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Smartsheet, and project scheduling tools.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Building Automation projects with a focus on customer satisfaction and profit objectives.
  • Participate in pre-bid reviews and turnover meetings to ensure project accuracy.
  • Oversee all project correspondence throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Handle financial responsibilities including revenue generation, cost forecasting, and profitability management.
  • Prepare and manage client correspondence for change orders and requests for information.
  • Develop project plans and schedules to coordinate field activities effectively.
  • Manage Vendor and Subcontractor relationships to ensure quality and timely project delivery.

Benefits

  • Health care coverage including medical, dental and vision plans.
  • 401K benefits with company matching contributions.
  • Incentive compensation based on role performance.
  • Generous paid time off policies.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
Full Job Description
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.


Key Performance deliverables:
  • 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.


Skills and Minimum Experience Required

  • 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.

Other
Requires a valid passport.
Requires a valid driver's license in good standing, and clean driving record.
Requires a vehicle.
Subject to security information disclosure highly sensitive projects.

The range for this position is $83,000 to $164,000. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant's experience and geographic location. Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role. For a list of our benefits, click here.

About Acuity Brands, Inc

Acuity Brands, Inc. is a lighting and building management firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with operations throughout North America and in Europe and Asia. It currently has about 12,000 employees and recorded net sales of $3.5 billion for fiscal year 2020. The company designs, produces, and distributes lighting fixtures, controls, and related products and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. Its lighting and building management solutions are marketed under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Aculux, American Electric Lighting, and others. Acuity Brands is committed to sustainability and energy efficiency, and offers a range of products that meet or exceed industry standards for energy efficiency and environmental performance.
Learn more about Acuity Brands, Inc
Size
13,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$250.9 million
Founded
1898
5 Year Trend
+2.7%
Revenue
$3.2 billion
NASDAQ
AYI
* Ladders Estimates

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