Salary Range: 65000 to 75000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
Wachter's greatest asset is the people who work here. Join the Wachter family and chart your career path!
Wachter is accepting applications for experienced Project Managers with industry experience with a service team operations in the voice, data, security, or electrical field background to work in our Bentonville, AR office. The position is full-time/permanent with a nice complement of benefits for the right individual. This position focuses on service account management, team development, and growth.
We seek self-motivated and reliable candidates who can work independently and find solutions to complete the job. Long-term employment with competitive pay and exceptional benefits for qualified candidates. We value relationships and invest in our employees.
Benefits package: Company Paid!
- Medical, Dental, Prescription & Vision Benefits
- Life, AD&D, and LTD insurance
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- MDLive & TriaHealth
- Company-Matched 401K and IRA Retirement Savings
Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent required. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Project management and or service account management experience required.
- At least 2 years of experience managing projects.
- Strong supervisory and people management skills, including selection, training, and development.
- Experienced in managing high-ticket volume service accounts.
- Thrives in High-Pressure Environments: Comfortable working in a fast-paced, sometimes unpredictable setting where priorities can shift rapidly.
- Calm Under Pressure: Maintains professionalism, clear communication, and sound decision-making even when things get hectic.
- Electrical and Service Channel experience required.
- Experience in any of the following fields is a plus: CAT5, Telecommunications, Fiber, Construction, or Structure Cabling IT.
- Experience working with engineered drawings, bid specifications, and construction take-offs is helpful.
- Possess highly developed conflict resolution skills.
- Able to motivate and influence others.
- Champion of change in support of management initiatives.
- Proficient with the use of computers, including email, spreadsheets, and Microsoft Office programs, especially Outlook, Excel, and Word.
- Excellent customer relationship and communication skills; verbal and written.
- Exceptional Multi-Tasking Ability: Can seamlessly manage multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations without losing focus or quality.
- Strong Organizational Skills: Uses systems and processes to bring structure to ambiguity and keep teams aligned.
- Ability to prioritize tasks.
- Must type at least 40 WPM.
- Project Management experience in Construction, Technology, or related fields is helpful.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and grow the Service Team to ensure that specific service practices, procedures, and expectations are met, and that team members are fulfilling their assigned responsibilities.
- Challenges others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model and mentor.
- Inspires coworkers to attain goals and pursue excellence.
- Oversee daily operational tasks, including performing employee interviews, hiring, assigning resources, and payroll approval.
- Develop, execute, and adjust service account plans which include communications, documentation, and reporting.
- Responsible for risk and issues management, contingency, change control, schedule, resource management, service level agreement (SLA), training, and quality control plans.
- Manage the development of SLA documentation in conjunction with Sales, Engineering, and Client representatives.
- Plan, grow, oversee, and direct high-volume commercial service accounts.
- Identify opportunities for improvement, provide constructive feedback, and implement necessary changes to improve team performance.
- Manage various internal and external resources in a matrix organization while ensuring profitability and strict time constraints are maintained.
- Identify important milestones, reporting formats, and reporting schedules for reviewing success in meeting client SLA and management expectations.
- Act as the primary point of contact with clients for ongoing service endeavors and new business opportunities.
- Create bid sheets and contractual proposals for projects.
- Order all materials and equipment for projects.
- Perform quality and safety audits to ensure the quality of all materials and equipment.
- Provide weekly and monthly financial forecasting and revenue projection reports.
- Provide logistical project support.
- Create and maintain project files.
- Manage project scheduling and billing.
- Manage the process of sourcing, evaluating, and estimating selected bid opportunities.
- Create a budget for each electrical account; monitor the budget, resources, and all project progress.
- Maintain a high standard of quality and professionalism.
- Communicate difficult and sensitive information tactfully.
- Manage & delegate through team resources.
- Remain at the forefront of emerging industry practices.
- Oversee the day-to-day communication with customers, essentially representing the face of Wachter.
- Review all customer specifications, contracts, and cost estimates.
- Communicate effectively and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, customers, technicians, sales team, other departments, upper management, engineers, etc.
- Perform any other duties not specifically stated herein, but which your supervisor may assign.
- Adhere to all required project safety requirements as set forth by the Company and OSHA.