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Fayetteville, Ga

Job Duties and Responsibilities:The Department Manager will recruit, hire, train, manage, supervise, promote, discipline and discharge, if necessary, all department staff. Effectively manage all human resource issues (and escalate as needed) per Company policies and procedures. Complete recommendations for employees’ performance ratings, promotions and pay changes.Provide guidance and mentoring to meet all department goals and objectives.Manage the workload distribution of department staff.Plan for, manage, monitor and maintain project profitability to achieve Company goals.Managing scopes of work that may include structured cable, audio-visual, security, life safety, estimating or BIM.Participating in and/or facilitating the bid process.Manage all related quality and safety issues on customer work.Act as the Company liaison for interface with customer representative(s).Create, develop and implement account process improvement(s).Develop team through professional development courses.Maintain budget for all assigned projects.

Georgia, United States

Responsible for overseeing field operations associated with building automation projects. During the construction phase of a project, the Site Manager is an RBT representative to the general contractor as well as other trades. In between project deployments, the Site Manager will assist with new project estimating and systems engineering. Provide technical assistance to RBT commissioning teamServes as a technical point of contact for customers and tradesAssist with prioritizing and assigning installation tasks to the tradesParticipate in commissioning meetingsDevelop customer & trade relationshipsAssist with developing instrument lists by examining P&ID drawings & bid specificationsResearch instrumentation (TTs, PTs, FTs, actuators, etc.) and propose appropriate devices for projectInspect instrument and electrical panel installation to verify completionID installation discrepanciesUnderstanding of customer demonstrations and acceptance testingUnderstanding of point-to-point loop checks, functional tests, and status of the site Cx plan for all systemsParticipate in field related design modification meetingsProject ManagementAssist with developing procurement log and installation tracking sheetsReceive, verify, and handoff equipment shipped to the siteSupport subcontractorsUnderstanding of project scope & RBT field quality control proceduresGenerates meaningful daily site logs to convey site conditions and progressCommissioning schedule coordination Exp w/ Low Voltage Installation Exp organizing, scheduling, and leading meetings with internal teams and customersMicrosoft Office & Project Basic understanding of HVAC systems in large building automation systems.Basic understanding of sequence of operations and P&IDs for HVAC and plant utilities.Basic understanding of instrumentation and control valves for HVAC systems.Building automation and/or industrial controls experience (Rockwell, Schneider, AVEVA, Inductive Automation)

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Responsible for the business, financial and customer service activities of the site, decisions of the site, including reviewing accuracy of financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, capital expenditures, payroll and other financial activities necessary to maintain financial overview of the location. Assists in the preparation of the annual budget. Establishing priorities and long term planning in order to establish goals which support the Company’s strategy and vision; directs and modifies, as required, the work methods and processes to meet these goals.Manage customer contract, operational and administrative activities of the site, including all work assignments of personnel, performance evaluations, hiring requirements, career development of all technical and office personnel.-Conducts relationship meetings with contract customers on a regular basis to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction and quality standards are being rendered and the prospects for future sales. Manage multiple relationships in a contract customer base, to include the corporate level.Ensures an agenda is complete and either conducts the meeting or assigns someone to conduct monthly staff meetings.Monitor the Quality program in the station and ensure conformity and implementation of standards.Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA, state, local, and Company safety laws, regulations, policies, and procedures on site and at any remote job site..

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Under the supervision of Senior Manager - Installations, Operations Manager has overall responsibility of assigned installation projects, and supports Senior Manager – Installations with project planning including scheduling and budgeting and Staffing Forecasts. Operation Manager is also responsible for providing oversight of installation resources (Subcontractors and Daifuku employees) to complete installation and upgrade of Daifuku AMHS equipment safely in a timely manner and within budget. Operations Manager is required to manage project cost and report costs to the executive management team. Operations Manager must follow designated installation procedures and safety guidelines established for work areas. Hire and staff all projects to support our customers objectives. Managing multiple teams in the US and Ireland.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

A highly experienced Operations/Project manager serving as the PM of two different projects worth over 40 million dollars. Responsible for the training and logistics training and support of both projects. Coordinating the shipping of all items over seas to two different countries. Work closely with multiple sub contractors to develop and build strong working relationships. - Led the training development and logistical support for two diverse customers on time and within budget. - Managed, coordinated and executed the shipping of over 40 million dollars’ worth of accounts and actively developed the logistical supply and training support packages for two different countries.- Designed and modified sensitive delivery processes in support of customer’s objectives to give them increased capability. - Developed and implemented a six week training course to ensure all customers were able to operate and maintain their new system in two different countries. - Maintained all deployed Mobile Border surveillance systems, resulting in a 15% reduction in illegal border crossing.

Glendale Heights, Illinois

Responsible for the attainment of budgeted volume, return percent and expense control within the Chicago market. Additionally, responsible for implementation and enforcement of all sales operational programs and policies within my market area. Directly responsible for the protection of all company assets under assigned jurisdiction, indirectly including security, maintenance, and sanitation. All responsibilities apply to all product lines in BBU. Managed a team of 14 personnel and built over 50 different relationships with my accounts. Using Salesforce to manage all partner relationships and key metrics to find additional opportunities in the market place. - Managed over 100 accounts, while actively visiting over 50 routinely. - Managed the logistics and supply of servicing the stores with the accurate amount of product by type weekly. - Responsible for over 1.3 million dollars’ worth of business.

State Of Kentucky

Managed 12 sales representatives, and hired and built 3 sales teams in the tri-state region focused on First Data emerging market product offerings, including Clover, Point Of Sale integration of website processing, on-boarding into various ERP software types and e-commerce merchant processing integration. Using Salesforce to manage and track all leads/sales from beginning to end. Accomplishments• Developed strategic partner sales team from the ground up, hiring entire division for the multi-state region; started at 2 and grew to 12 Business Consultants.• Transformed Business Consultants’ methods from price-driven sales to consultative sales approach; result: raised profitability of each sale.• Trained business consultants on methods to generate leads for emerging market products to include business-to-business sale and e-commerce.• Coached Business Consultants to develop a deeper understanding of a customer’s business to develop solutions that solved business challenges with Clover and other proprietary products.• Developed sales team to solution sell direct and through partner sales, including SAM’s, US Foods, Restaurant Depot, and other partners’ sales.• Implemented a referral partner program for emerging markets, including web developers, IT integration firms, and Point of Sale developers; surpassed all peer managers in the number of referral partners created.• Reached 85% of 2015 new-sales revenue goal

Grafenwohr Germany

Dedicated Planner Specialist focused on synchronizing and planning solutions that meet the training objectives of the organization’s leadership; bringing together military organizations from all over the world to train together. - Consistently met and exceeded organizational goals.- Developed a standard procedure for large-scale training events.- Coordinated and led air transportation meetings to overcome flight restrictions.- Developed relationships to facilitate achieving training objectives.- Facilitated organizational focus on key initiatives established by leadership. - Aligned people, processes, and technology to meet training goals. - Educated foreign organizations on how to utilize available training resources available.- Coordinated with planners from other countries to ensure proper paper work was submitted in order for the foreign organizations to train in a foreign country.

Fort Bliss Texas

Senior Manager for operations, training, and unit transformation preparing the team to operate in diverse locations and environments. Developing training plans for staff personnel in operations procedures, briefing methods and sequence of staff actions. Formulated staff policy, ensuring staff personnel perform within their assigned duties and functional areas. Responsible for the development of plans and programs which effectively managed the unit's resources to ensure readiness. Coordinated details and requirements between the battalion and higher-level staff in response to unit needs. - Developed complex system training programs for over 700 team members.- Served as a Security Forces Team Advisor to train and mentor foreign military leaders and soldiers.- Rated by the chief executive as one of the top 5 leaders among over 100.- Streamlined a 10 day turn-in process into 4 days.- Selected to attend Command and General Staff College from 2009-2010.- Selected for a highly competitive assignment to attend an exchange program with the German Army conducting a joint exercise. - Known as the “go to” operations manager in an organization of over 5,000.- Created long range training plans to achieve training goals.- Led training meetings to synchronize operations in the organization.- Selected to lead over 200 personnel on a special assignment in Iraq.- Coordinated the movement of equipment for 14 teams across the world.- Trained and mentored the staff of a foreign Army in Afghanistan enabling the unit to operate independent of US assistance.- Planned and executed 6 major operations with a multinational Battalion.

Baghdad, Iraq

Led a 90 day training course to develop, train and mentor a multinational Military unit. • Trained and mentored a Iraqi Battalion Police unit of 800 personnel. • Trained and mentored an Iraqi Brigade Infantry unit of 4700 personnel.• Advised and coached two Senior Iraqi Army Operations Officer of an Iraqi Police division.• Developed relationships within a foreign Military to enable our Command to share sensitive information leading achievement of significant goals of international interest

Coordinate and facilitate initiatives that would ethically benefit and grow L-3 Vertex in the region. Shape program development and business development. Successfully manage contract offset activity for current and future programs. Foster and maintain working relationship between L-3 leadership, functional groups, Ministry of Defense, Foreign Procurement Office, Office of Military Cooperation, National Offset Company, and others. Champion L-3’s value proposition as the company of choice across the spectrum of regional defense and commercial contracts.• Developed professional relationships that enabled the team to save over 500,000 dollars annually using a single source justification to use a provider for resources necessary to conduct operations.• Developed a financial training class for all employees on how to better manage their finances and effectively aided 17 employees on how to get out of debt by developing an individual plan that was unique for them.• Developed a justification for a proposed budget while a congressional audit of our records was being done. Passing with flying colors due to documentation the team developed to support our current spending plans and next fiscal year’s budget projection. • Re-wrote a contractual agreement with our current rental agency saving the organization an additional 100,000 dollars annually by developing a tracking method for the entire rental fleet of vehicles. Justified what vehicles were needed for to support operations and why.