Job Description

Swoon is partnering with a global leader in industrial equipment and solutions to hire a Project Manager supporting their Advanced Electrical Services division in Alpharetta, GA. This is an exciting one-year contract opportunity (with strong potential to extend or convert) where you’ll lead aftermarket operations for high-voltage switchgear systems. Join a dynamic team driving critical post-shipment initiatives—ranging from preventative maintenance to system retrofits—while collaborating across engineering, field service, and production to deliver high-impact electrical service solutions.

Here are the details:

Initial one-year Project Manager (Electrical Services/Aftermarket Operations) opportunity

Duration: Initial one-year contract with high potential to extend/convert based on performance

Location: onsite in Alpharetta, GA

Pay Rate: $45-47/hr W2, open to C2C, Self-Corporation candidate as well

Team Details:

• Advanced electrical services division
• Aftermarket/AES unit - responsible for all things post-shipment
• Troubleshoot
• Preventative maintenance
• Upgrades
• Retrofits
• 9 people on team
• Lots of different projects and initiatives going on

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Order-entry through closeout
• Managing financials - cost and budget management and tracking in made-to-manage software
• Backlog report - review every week - current costs relative to estimated costs
• Managing schedules
• Working with dealer counterparts
• Work procedures
• Invoicing
• Change order management and negotiation (scope management)
• Working with purchasing team within business
• Submittal prep on day-to-day
• Internal meetings with cross-functional teams - engineering, production, field service
• Customer-facing needs - dealership and end user for kickoff meeting with them

Looking for:

• Dealing with cross-functional teams
• Managing projects end-to-end
• Office 365
• Good communication
• Industry/project exp - construction would be good, project management where they have to coordinate work with multiple trades

Years of experience?

• 5+ years of experience

Technical requirements?

• MS Office Suite - Excel is really important
• Most tools are internal

Top 3?

• MS Office Suite - Excel
• Industry/project exp - construction would be good, project management where they have to coordinate work with multiple trades
• Good communication

Nice-to-haves?

• Construction background
• Power industry
• Electrical contracting

Education/certification requirements?

• Bachelor's degree is preferred but not required
• Not too picky about degree, more so experience

Soft Skills:

• Good communication

Disqualifiers:

• IT Project Management - this doesn't translate well to what they do
• Challenges they deal with are totally different than having to maintain schedules with trade work

Interview Process:

• How many rounds?
• 2 rounds
• 1st - virtual
• 2nd - in-person
• Who is all on it?
• 1st - 2 person panel over MS TEAMS
• 2nd - familiarization, culture fit, see the office
• What should they expect?
• STAR method
• Experience
• Specific examples
• Situational questions

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