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Since their founding in 2001, our client has provided exceptional professionally managed support to our clients nationwide, including many of the country's largest retailers, real estate holding companies, insurance providers, and commercial lenders.

We pride ourselves on being our client's "professional management" provider and "an extension of our client's team". They offer our clients a full suite of facilities, emergency disaster response, and environmental services. Whatever It Takes attitude sets us apart from our competitors with outstanding dedication to all clients. Watterson is looking for a Project manager responsible for the overall direction of Facilities work orders and client satisfaction. The Project Manager will handle the lifecycle of facility client projects by planning, scheduling, budgeting and maintaining close contact with the client and their needs. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. They may oversee and supervise Project Coordinators, will serve and train new team members and may handle larger projects. Key Responsibilities:

• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for several major and minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Managing any direct reports of Project Coordinators by overseeing their work orders and providing additional guidance and training as needed.
• Initiate and maintain liaison with owners and other contacts to facilitate project activities.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes for numerous projects simultaneously to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Proactively develop relationships with the subcontractor community.

Skills/Traits/Competencies

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with team members, internal partners, customers, and others through strong interpersonal skills. Obtains cooperation from others; seeks and encourages win-win alternatives. Works effectively with people outside formal authority to accomplish goals.
• Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers. Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect. Proactively addresses customer needs. Follows through on identified problems until resolved. Meets negotiated delivery commitments or advises customers when delays are necessary.
• Making the best decision based upon a mixture of analysis, knowledge, experience, and judgment. Applies both rational and creative processes to identify unknown root causes of problems. Based on the situation, decide the best course of action, implement the solution, and follow up to see how it works. Calculates and evaluates the long-term consequences of a decision.

Experience/Education/Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in facilities management, engineering, or property management. (preferred)
• At least four years of work experience, with a minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role, managing people would be exceptional

The successful candidates will receive a competitive compensation package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, a company-sponsored 401K retirement plan, holidays, and paid time off (PTO).