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?
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:
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
Job Tags
Contract work,