Assistant Project Manager - Fire

As a result of our phenomenal growth, MSS Fire and Security , LLC has an opening for an Assistant Project Manager - Fire and Security . If you are an experienced professional who is looking to grow your career and contribute fresh and innovative ideas to serve our customers, this is an opportunity you should explore! A career at MSS is not just a job -- it's collaborating with the business's best talent. It's having a part in building a better future. It's making a difference in people's lives. The success of MSS is a direct reflection of our team's dedication, passion, and hard work. Since 1996, MSS has taken pride in retaining some of the best talents in the industry by promoting a culture of respect, collaboration, and empowerment. Role and Responsibilities • Charting out the project objectives and plans, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants. • Bringing about optimum utilization of resources- labor, materials, and equipment, and ensuring their procurement at the most cost-effective terms. • Implementation of various operations through proper coordination. • Development of effective communications and mechanisms for resolving conflicts among the various participants. • Oversee the construction project from start to finish. • Perform a key role in project planning, budgeting, and identification of resources needed. • Create the teams, develop the objectives/goals of each, and assign individual responsibilities. • Project accounting functions include managing the budget, tracking team expenses, and minimizing exposure and risk in the project. • Ensure that construction activities move according to a predetermined schedule. • Devise the project work plans and make revisions as and when the need arises. • Communicate effectively with the contractors responsible for completing various phases of the project. • Co-ordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, which include the architects, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, and laborers. • Monitor the progress of the construction activities on a regular basis and hold regular status meetings with all the sub-teams. • Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines, quality, and safety standards. • Periodic inspection of construction sites. • Ensure project documents are complete. • Identify the elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims. • Serve as a key link with the clients and review the deliverables prepared by the team before passing them on to the client. • Other such duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Company from time to time.

Qualifications and Requirements • Excellent communication skills. • Good understanding of Fire, Security, and Cameras Systems. • Ability to work with both Excel and Word documents. • Prepare and maintain project schedules utilizing either MS Project, Primavera, or other Project scheduling tools. • Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record. • Physical Demands: Frequent sitting, occasional stooping, crouching, kneeling, balancing, and climbing. Frequent standing, walking, reaching and gripping. Clear speaking and adequate hearing sufficient to communicate effectively and respond appropriately in-person and/or on the telephone, vision sufficient to read source materials and computer screen data, repetitive motions for computer equipment use. • Must successfully pass a background check & drug test. • A four-year bachelor’s degree in engineering or a high school diploma and a minimum of 5 years of experience in project and facilities management. Work Environment: Exposure to weather, extreme heat or cold, high noise intensity level, atmospheric conditions, exposure to electrical shock, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, wet and/or humid, vibration, proximity to moving mechanical parts, working high exposure places (job sites) and/or an office environment with conditioned air and bright lights.