Join a top employer and advance your career. Aplin has partnered with a Nova Scotia company to hire a Project Manager System for their team in Mobile, Alabama.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Project Manager Systems will manage the human, financial, and operational resources necessary to meet contractual and company-related obligations of the project to ensure profitability. The Project Manager will provide day-to-day leadership for the members assigned to the team and ensure ongoing communications with the customer. He will actively participate in the execution of the project and interact with the project team and the client to ensure open communications. The incumbent will monitor the quality of the system solution as well as the timelines and costs to ensure contractual obligations are respected.

Project Management and Direction:

• Manage installation projects ensuring goals, timelines, resources, material, and budget are met
• Develop appropriate HVAC designs for the different spaces onboard ships including all supporting calculations.
• Select appropriate system components based on the design and calculations.
• Prepare professional drawing packages (single lines, double lines, installation, and equipment drawings).
• Resolves installation issues promptly, and ensures that change and requirements are understood, documented, communicated, cost, and applied.
• Responsible for the quality of deliverables and installations.
• Monitor progress, earned value, deliverables, and acceptance plans against plans and mitigate issues when they arise.
• Monitor time & technical activities of projects and ensure that deliverables meet contract requirements ensuring customer acceptance is achieved.
• Coordinates supplier’s deliverables with project timelines and ensures quality.
• Coordinate with Product Engineers and Packaging teams to ensure their deliverables are aligned with the project requirements (design requirements and timelines & budget).
• Lead and support Installation Managers located in different yards and provide assistance in overcoming technical, supply chain, and client issues.

Customer Management:

• Acts as the primary point of contact with the customer.
• Maintains communications with customers on project progress, issues, and risks at all levels of the organization.
• Manages scope and change requests proactively.
• Monitors customer satisfaction and address concerns.

Contract Management:

• Monitor contract delivery (i.e., specifications, costs, and customer satisfaction)
• May assist in the development and negotiation of contractual agreements and/or change requests

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• More than 8 years of experience in HVAC system engineering design or experience operating/maintaining HVAC systems
• Relevant experience in engineering-related firm (an asset).
• Experience in project managing Ship Installations/Refurbishment; good working knowledge of PM software
• Good knowledge of project finance and cost control
• PMP certification (an asset)
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written with strong relational skills (English)
• Excellent organization skills and capacity to juggle multiple tasks and resources
• Excellent business acumen for long-term development is highly desirable

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