Facilities Project Manager

Company: Fisher Investments
Location: Plano
Posted on: November 19, 2024

Job Description:

It's an exciting time to join Fisher Investments' facilities organization. We are looking for an experienced project manager to join our team and support the scaling and evolution of the facilities management group.

The Opportunity:

The Facilities Project Manager will provide project management support for a broad range of facilities related projects ranging from office rearrangements to new building construction and will maintain reports on the status of the projects, schedules, and costs. You will also oversee the daily execution of critical operations that require a high level of business process knowledge, and an understanding of existing facilities infrastructure.

You will support on-site projects and report directly to the Facilities Site Manager.

The Day-to-Day:

• Work with end-users, vendors, contractors, IT staff, and business liaisons on a daily basis to develop plans, schedules, and specifications for facilities projects
• Understand the technical component of existing systems and business processes to complete requested changes within current infrastructure
• Gather project requirements while assisting with planning and continuous improvements as projects progress
• Present functional descriptions, capital and support requirements, anticipated expense budgets, and project plans to senior management
• Develop detailed project schedules and support specifications for suppliers, operating standards, and equipment requirements
• Track and manage actual expenses against budgets and contracts and provide scheduled progress reporting
• Become familiar with existing vendor support contracts and analyze alternatives, renewals, and proposed contract changes. Review newly proposed vendor contracts to confirm they meet our needs and are financially reasonable
• Assist the Facilities Site Manager on a per request basis for various facilities related projects
  Your Qualifications:
  
  
  • 5+ years of experience in facilities project management
  • Working knowledge of basic plumbing, electrical, carpentry, mechanical and HVAC principles with competency in building systems operations
  • Experience managing 3rd party vendor and contractor relationships
  • Strong technical knowledge with comfortability supporting IT infrastructure development and maintenance
  • Proven expertise understanding and defining business processes, collecting data, and communicating data-centric conclusions
  • Experience connecting and building relationships with important project partners
  • Comfortable working in a large organization and across business groups, time zones, and variable schedules
  • Advanced skills in Excel
  • Certification in Project Management (PMP)
    Why Fisher Investments:
    
    We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
    
    • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
    • A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
    • 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
    • Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance and back-up child, adult, and elder care
    • $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit
      FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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