Job Description

Position Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing electrical construction projects from conception through completion. This position requires strong technical expertise, organizational skills, and the ability to interpret blueprints, specifications, and schematics. The Project Manager will lead projects for designated clients, ensuring alignment from initial estimating and design narratives through execution and closeout, while maintaining schedule, budget, and quality standards.

Key Measurables

The success of this role will be evaluated through the following metrics:

• Management of projects with a minimum total value of $4–8 million.
• Achievement of project revenue and profitability goals on a monthly and annual basis.
• Maintaining billings greater than costs on all assigned projects.
• Minimal need for upper management intervention in project or departmental issues.
• Positive client feedback and satisfaction scores.
• Completion of documented kickoff meetings for all projects.
• Accuracy and consistency of budget sheets, forecasts, and cost projections.
• Active participation in pre-bid walkthroughs for all assigned jobs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage projects to ensure adherence to established timelines, budgets, and scopes of work.
• Collaborate with clients, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and internal departments to develop and execute project plans.
• Conduct regular site visits to monitor progress, safety, and quality; proactively identify and resolve issues or delays.
• Manage and maintain all project documentation, including contracts, submittals, change orders, reports, and closeout materials.
• Ensure compliance with building codes, safety standards, and quality control requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and quality assurance oversight to field and project teams.
• Review and negotiate contracts, subcontracts, and scope changes.
• Coordinate with engineering, purchasing, and suppliers to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery of materials and equipment.
• Monitor budgets, schedules, cash flow, and forecasts; prepare accurate billing and progress reports.
• Lead project kickoff and progress meetings, maintaining organized meeting minutes, logs, and documentation.
• Support field leadership in scheduling, daily reporting, and equipment utilization.
• Manage project close-out, ensuring all deliverables and documentation are complete and client expectations are met.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Manages Complexity : Making sense of complex, highly quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems; asks the right questions to accurately analyze situations acquiring data from multiple sources when solving problems; uncovers root causes of difficult problems evaluating pros and cons, risks and benefits of different solution options.
• Ensures Accountability : Holding self and other accountable meeting commitments; following through on commitments and making sure that others do the same; Acts with a clear sense of ownership taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions and failures; establishes clear responsibilities for monitoring work and measuring results.
• Collaborates : Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; works cooperatively across the organization to achieve shared objectives; Partners with others to get work done, crediting others for their contributions and accomplishments; Gains trust and support of others to meet objectives.
• Plans and Aligns : Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals; setting objectives to align with broader organizational goals breaking down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules; anticipates and adjusts effective contingency plans.
• Organizational Savvy : Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

A college degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, along with a minimum of five years of verifiable experience in project management or a similar role within the electrical construction industry. The ideal candidate will have proven experience overseeing all phases of project execution — from estimating and preconstruction through closeout — with the ability to manage budgets, schedules, and client expectations effectively. Experience in preparing and enforcing quality control programs, reviewing drawings and specifications, and coordinating across multidisciplinary project teams is required. Equivalent combinations of education and relevant experience will be considered.

Norlee Group is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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