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Southern Irrigation is actively looking for a Full-Time Senior Project Manager for our Chilliwack location. The successful candidate should excel in attention to detail, have good communication skills, and a positive attitude.
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: 44160 Yale Road West, Chilliwack, BC
Job purpose: Manage the full cycle of multiple irrigation projects including design, construction, and project review.
Key Result Areas
- Customer expectations are exceeded
- Projects and Installation teams are effective and efficient
- All team members are actively growing and being developed
- Projects are completed on time and as planned
- Billable sales and margin targets are achieved
- Project review process is effective
- Personal growth and training goals are achieved
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Requests for proposals from salespeople are responded to in a timely manner by project team members.
- Critical information is available and communicated to sales, projects, and installation teams
- Track and report metrics for efficiency, team capacity, and profitability
- Add or adjust processes to ensure efficiency and accountability
- Increase Project Team support capacity to match sales efforts
- Installations are planned and scheduled efficiently and effectively
- Completed projects meet or exceed labour and material margin goals
- Supervise all team members: keep teams united, motivated, and accountable to goals and deadlines
- Visit job sites, manage office staff, meet with team leaders, report as necessary and scheduled
- Troubleshoot issues to determine the best solution for each customer (weather related delays, material sourcing issues, other problems as they arise)
- Identify and fill gaps in expertise (training, hiring, etc.)
- Attend company training and engage in skill upgrading programs for personal development
Competencies
- 2-5 years project management experience
- Civil Construction, Engineering, or irrigation experience is an asset
- Effective communicator of critical and timely information (written, digital, verbal)
- Customer focus: Understand customer drivers, goals, ROI
- Effective team leader: able to motivate team members, gain their respect, and develop their careers
- Adaptable: Able to flex to new circumstances and still achieve goals
Skills
- Proven ability to manage teams and people
- A good sense of logic (practical)
- Organization and time management
- Familiar with or motivated to become familiar with:
- All types of irrigation systems (pivots, laterals, hose reels, drip, greenhouse, market garden)
- Variable frequency drives – calibration/troubleshooting
- Pumps – installation/priming/troubleshooting
- Plumbing – cutting/gluing/assembling manifolds
- Controls (become familiar with all types of irrigation controllers (Rainbird/Hunter/HIT/TWIG/Ranch/Fieldnet/Ocmis)
- Principles of Irrigation – basic understanding of irrigation systems or willing to train on irrigation systems
- Low voltage electrical (24VAC and 24VDC) knowledge
- High voltage electrical (motor voltage, phases, amperage, etc.)
- Skilled with office electronics (email, Microsoft Office, typing, texting, etc)
Core Values
- Work ethic; be punctual, intelligent and efficient
- Win as a team; care for your coworkers professionally and personally
- Wow our customers; be respectful, intuitive, personal and efficient
As a provider of intelligent water solutions, Southern Irrigation strives to be best in the industry, and in return we provide amazing opportunities for our people.
Southern Irrigation offers impressive employee benefits such as 100% employer-paid health benefits plan, RRSP matching, culture and community events, and opportunities for employee bonuses.
At Southern Irrigation we know our success is based on having all “A” players rowing in the same direction. Our Work (hard), Win (as a team), and Wow (our customers) attitude makes the environment at Southern Irrigation both challenging and fun.
