TFR- Project Manager- Trench Safety at Holt Texas

Job Summary: The Technical Project Manager – Trench Safety has technical and project accountability for the delivery of customer rental solutions using technical knowledge, project management, and collaboration across multiple business units with a focus on delivering high customer value. This position may work in conjunction with sales teams, project managers, technicians, engineers, design teams and end customers and may include commissioning or project execution oversight. Additional responsibilities include attending project kickoff and safety meetings, providing technical and design support to internal and external customers on projects, on-site startup/decommissioning execution and checklists, audit reports, and calculations.

Essential Functions:
• Models, promotes, reinforces, and rewards the consistent use of HOLT’s Values Based Leadership (VBL) tools, models, and processes to ensure alignment with our Vision, Values, and Mission
• Provides detailed technical knowledge or advice and consultation to the Sales team on the technical component of bids and/or scope of supply on rental solutions to end customers including jobsite walks with sales and end customers.
• Reviews, tracks, and coordinates projects through all phases to completion, ensuring that quality standards, customer satisfaction and company profitability are maintained
• Supports operations branches with on the job coaching or instruction to further technical competence and development of local technicians; Acts as a subject matter expert to provide technical advice for specialty rental equipment to support the continuous growth and success of the specialty rental business sales and operations teams
• Assists in the training and development of sales and operations personnel to product training, installation training, and processes
• Works safely always and adheres to all applicable safety policies; complies with all company policies, procedures, and standards
• Performs other duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Demonstrated knowledge of trench safety application, slide rail systems, beam and plate, various trench box equipment, and Shoring; possesses an understanding of soil types and shoring solutions
• Able to read and understand engineered plans that relate to shoring schematics with ability to produce hand drafted schematic modifications
• Demonstrated knowledge of equipment and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance
• Knowledge and proficiency with current computer software, related hardware, and product tab data
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Consulting and influencing abilities
• Ability to follow logical troubleshooting procedures
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to operate hand tools, power tools, pneumatic tools, and equipment used in mechanical repair & overhead crane
• Ability to operate a conventional forklift
• Ability to operate the controls of a machine or a vehicle quickly and repeatedly to exact positions
• Ability to be self-starting and self-motivated
• Ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects
• Ability to read, write, and understand information
• Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
Education and Experience:
• High school/equivalent diploma or trade school diploma preferred
• 3+ years of trench shoring operations or sales experience preferred
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Travel:
• Up to 60% travel, to include overnight
• Valid driver’s license required
Physical Requirements:
• Must be able to move objects, and use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue
• Frequently moves materials or equipment weighing up to 50 pounds
• Constant movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity, coordination, and stamina
• Ascend/descend with gradual or continuous progress by oneself, using both hands and feet and climb up and down ladders
• Be able to safely maneuver and work underneath equipment
• Routinely reacts to visual, auditory, and other signals, including alarms and instructions, and is required to visually inspect work
Work Environment:
• Regularly works indoors and outdoors around moving mechanical parts and may be exposed to weather extremes when working outside in conditions that include inclement weather, heat, cold, and humidity
• Noise level may be loud at times
• Exposure to small quantities of chemicals, steam, high-pressure water, and high speed rotating equipment
• Significant time spent in confined spaces and high places