Project Manager - Field Services Line of Business - Sparus Holdings

Why Work for Sparus?

Sparus Holdings, Inc. delivers business outsourcing services to North America's leaders by way of our companies: Southern Cross, NAFS, The Spear Group, OneVision, TruCheck, ULS, and Allegiant. Sparus Holdings' subsidiaries provide a unique blend of differentiated, yet complementary services to provide a tightly integrated solution set for its customers while expanding its addressable market and future growth prospects.

We partner with our customers and employees to protect lives, property, and client infrastructure while making projects wildly successful through our delivery of high-quality services. We add value to the process by integrating innovation and technology into everything we do while challenging the status quo. We stand by partnership, teamwork, integrity, and innovation to make great things happen!

Summary/Objective

- The Project Manager is fully responsible for all aspects of their project portfolio including but not limited to implementation, safety, scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resources. Emphasis will be on safety, client satisfaction, quality performance of services, and financial performance aligned with the company’s business plan.

- Key measures of success include delivery of projects within assigned portfolio in accordance with agreed upon plan; client satisfaction/feedback; achievement of project quality objectives, and development of high-performing project teams.

Essential Functions

Key functions fulfilled by the Project Manager:

- Deliver profitable, high-quality, repeatable results while supporting customer centric growth.

- Drive project execution to perform work within scope, on an agreed schedule, within budget, and with a high level of customer satisfaction.

- Work collaboratively with the sales organization to act as a partner to Sparus’ customers through developing a deep understanding of their challenges and objectives, including how the customer’s sponsor and manager of the work are measured. Execute operations based on this knowledge to deliver win/win relationship-enhancing solutions.

- Drive accountability throughout the project portfolio to execute on commitments, act with integrity, have a strong safety culture, achieve top tier quality, be viewed as a partner by customers, and enhance employee engagement and productivity. This includes creating processes to ensure that the projects are utilizing their resources in a cost-efficient and high-quality manner.

- Implement standard project management practices, including but not limited to meeting minutes, action item tracking, development of a schedule, schedule analysis, issue/risk tracking and resolution, prioritization and tracking of project information. The PM will utilize the project schedule to track the activities in the field and forecast their completion.

- Provide regular reporting to Leadership on progress against objectives on key internal projects and initiatives.

Partner with Safety and Field management to ensure project safety process compliance and validation of contractual safety expectations and work practices are being followed.

- Partner with Human Resources and Training teams to identify and attract talent and create a positive work culture that promotes from within, has high employee morale, and has low employee turnover.

Competencies

Core competencies of the Project Manager:

- Strong understanding of project financials, team dynamics, client relationships, staffing and resource requirements, and performance expectations

- Customer relationship and influencing skills; ability to negotiate positive outcomes for the company while also helping customers achieve their business objectives

- Proactive problem-solving skills and helpful, open, and candid communication skills

- Leadership skills that portray commitment, reliability, and accountability to desired outcomes

- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

- Strategic planning skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to successfully interact with a variety of stakeholders in a team environment

- Ability to coach, mentor and bring a teaching mentality to the role while working with a variety of people

- Excellent time management skills; competent in managing multiple projects

- Critical decision making skills

- Ability to assess and manage risk and anticipate internal, external and client needs and readily implement issue resolution with project stakeholders

- Ability to understand and perform forward scheduling (forecasting)

Management Responsibility

The Project Manager:

- Maintains responsibility and accountability for all projects within the portfolio to include the staff with particular emphasis on building an organization that will deliver profitable, high-quality, repeatable results while also supporting customer centric growth.

- Drives project leadership to ensure work is performed in accordance with agreed-upon scope, on an agreed schedule, within budget, and with a high level of customer satisfaction.

- Participates actively in the recruitment and retention of project staff as needed to support the Sparus organization.

- Provides leadership, guidance, and development of project staff.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time salaried position. Hours will vary based on priorities and volume of projects and initiatives.

Travel

This is a hybrid/remote position, with preference given to candidates within the Atlanta Metro area and/or ability to spend time as needed in Sparus headquarters in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Some degree of travel is required but is not expected to exceed 10%-20% once the project manager has gained a working understanding of the portfolio. Travel includes meeting with existing and potential clients, project teams, and participating in industry events.

Required Education and Experience

- Minimum 5 years of project management experience in engineering, construction, or field services environment.

Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business, or equivalent discipline preferred.

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.

- Experience in the management and development of staff

Physical Demands

- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.