Installation Manager

TransCore, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is seeking a full-time Installation Manager to join our team in Ashburn, Virginia.

Job Summary: Directs the coordination of installation activities using cross-departmental resources. Maintains communication with design management and specialists in resolving technical problems and/or bringing problems to the design department’s attention. Develops and maintains installation schedules. Manages applicable subcontractors. Oversees installation of hardware and system components for testing and final delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Manages, schedules, and tracks subcontractors’ performance, if utilized.
• Organizes, tracks and accepts materials and hardware for projects. Distributes and assigns materials to the project.
• Ensures that the team has the proper tools and materials for the job.
• Schedules crews to cover installation activities.
• Performs onsite quality control inspections.
• Reviews and approves subcontractor invoices.
• Reports and supports system related issues to technical team.
• Provides daily, weekly and monthly reports of activities to either customer or management.
• Develops plans to meet customer scheduling and procedural requirements.
• Coordinates efforts with peer managers for deployment of new lanes or plazas, marketing functions, or operational activities.
• Develops installation schedule for internal and external use.
• Reviews and approves installation drawings before submittal to the customer.
• Works with Project Manager to keep costs under control and identify any issues/obstacles that may result in delays.
• Oversees onsite equipment installation and responds to issues as they arise.
• Provides estimations for future project proposals and quotations.
• Prepares and maintains standard procedures for equipment installation.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages up to 20 employees, some through subordinate supervisors. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Education: Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school.

Authority: Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources

to meet schedules and goals. Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established company policies. Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).

Job Complexity: Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends. Follows processes and operational policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Acts as advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems. Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; may have budget responsibilities.

Discretion: Erroneous decisions will result in critical delay(s) in schedules and/or unit operations and may jeopardize overall business activities.

Interaction: Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, customers, and/or functional peer group managers, normally involving matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company. Often must lead a cooperative effort among members of a project team.

Direction: Manages, perhaps through subordinate supervisors, the coordination of the activities of a section or department with responsibility for results, including costs, methods and staffing. In some instances this manager may be responsible for a functional area and not have any subordinate employees.

Experience: Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The employee is frequently exposed to risk of electrical shock and moving traffic. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

**Travel is required

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)