Project Manager
CINCINNATI AREA, OHIO /ENGINEERING /FULL-TIME
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General Summary: The Project Manager is responsible for the successful execution of design and development efforts that meet NuWaves’ customer requirements, are completed on schedule and within budget. The project manager is also responsible for developing a good working relationship with clients and search for new opportunities with these clients.
Accountabilities – 1 Year
Rating Guide: N/A; 1 – Poor; 2 – Only Fair; 3 – Good; 4 – Very Good; 5 – Excellent
| Accountability | Metric |
| Lead a proposal effort. | Successfully complete a proposal. |
| Learn NuWaves’ processes and capabilities | Successfully complete a green team review for a new opportunity |
| Client satisfaction | Receive positive customer feedback |
| Positive business results | > 85% of assigned projects are on-time and on budget |
Competencies
Rating Guide: N/A; 1 – Poor; 2 – Only Fair; 3 – Good; 4 – Very Good; 5 – Excellent
| Easy to Change | Moderately Difficult to Change | Hard to Change |
| Competency | Description | Minimum Acceptable Rating |
| Oral Communications | Communicates well one on one, in small groups and public speaking. Fluent, quick on feet, command of language. Keeps people informed. | 4 |
| Written Communications | Writes clear, precise, well-organized documents using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and word usage. | 4 |
| Political Savvy | Aware of political factors and hidden agendas and acts effectively with that awareness. | 3 |
| Training/Development/Coaching | Actively and successfully trains people. Coaches and develops for promotion into positions where they succeed. People builder. | 3 |
| Goal Setting | Sets fair stretch goals for self and others. Encourages individual initiative. | 4 |
| Empowerment | Pushes decision making down to lowest level. Provides authority and resources to subordinates. | 3 |
| Performance Management | Fosters high level of accountability through fair, hard hitting performance management system. Free with deserved praise and recognition. Constructive in criticism. Provides frequent feedback. | 4 |
| Running Meetings | Demonstrates ability to organize and run effective meetings. | 3 |
| Judgment/Decision-Making | Consistent logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making. Neither indecisive nor hip-shooter. | 4 |
| Track Record | Successful career history. Generally earns performance ratings of ‘excellent’. | 4 |
| Pragmatism | Generates sensible, realistic, practical solutions to problems. | 4 |
| Strategic Skills | Determines opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends. Comprehends the big picture. | 4 |
| Resourcefulness/Initiative** | Passionately finds ways over, around, and through barriers to success. Achieves results despite lack of resources. Goes beyond the call of duty. Shows bias for action. A results-oriented ‘doer’. | 4 |
| Excellence | Sets high stretch standards of performance for self and others. Low tolerance for mediocrity. High sense of responsibility. | 4 |
| Stress Management | Stable and poised under pressure. | 4 |
| Adaptability | Not rigid. Copes effectively with complexity and change. | 4 |
| Likeability | Puts people at ease. Shows emotional intelligence. Warm, sensitive, compassionate. Not arrogant. Friendly, sense of humor, genuine. | 4 |
| Listening | Tunes in accurately to opinions, feelings, and needs of people. Empathetic. Patient. Lets others speak. Listens actively. | 4 |
| Negotiation Skills | Achieves favorable outcomes in win/win negotiations. | 3 |
| Persuasion | Persuasive in change efforts, selling a vision. Convincing. | 4 |
| Team Builder** | Achieves cohesive, effective team spirit with staff. Treats staff fairly. Shares credit. | 4 |
| Change Leadership | Actively intervenes to create and energize positive change. Leads by example. | 4 |
| Conflict Management | Understands natural forces of conflict and acts to prevent or soften them. Effectively works through conflicts to optimize outcome. Does not suppress, ignore, or deny conflicts. | 3 |
| Compatibility of Needs | Needs that are consistent with opportunities in foreseeable future. | 4 |
| Life Balance | Achieves sufficient balance among work, wellness, relationships, community involvement, professional associations, friendships, hobbies, and interests. | 3 |
| Intelligence** | Ability to acquire and absorb information rapidly. A quick study. | 4 |
| Analysis Skills | Identifies significant problems and opportunities. Analyzes problems in depth. Sorts the wheat from the chaff, determining root causes. | 4 |
| Conceptual Ability | Deals effectively with not just concrete, tangible issues but with abstract, conceptual matters. | 4 |
| Creativity | Generates new approaches to problems or innovations to established best practices. Shows imagination. | 3 |
| Assertiveness | Takes forceful stand on issues without being excessively abrasive. | 3 |
| Vision | Provides clear, credible vision and strategy. | 4 |
| Inspiring Followship** | Inspires people to follow lead. Minimizes intimidation. Takes charge. Motivates by pushing appropriate hot buttons of individuals. | 4 |
| Energy/Drive | Exhibits energy, strong desire to achieve, high dedication level. 45 or more hours per week on average. | 4 |
| Enthusiasm/Passion | Exhibits dynamism, excitement, and a positive can-do attitude. | 4 |
| Ambition | Desires to grow in responsibility and authority. | 4 |
| Tenacity/Persistence | Consistent reward of passionately striving to achieve results. Conveys strong need to win. Reputation for not giving up. | 4 |
| Integrity** | Ironclad. Does not ethically cut corners. Earns trust of co-workers. Puts organization above self-interest. | 5 |
U.S. Citizenship is a requirement.
EOE disability/vet.