CDI CORP is seeking to hire an experienced Project Services Manager to join the CDI Engineering team in Houston, TX or Baton Rouge, LA. Potential for promotion to director with growth of organization.

• The position reports to the Vice President, Project Execution, and manages employees in several states, providing management oversight, training, and technical leadership to schedulers, planners, estimators, project aides, project cost control specialist and project controls managers.
• The position is full time exempt direct position at CDI offering competitive pay, benefits, flex work schedule, 401K and more!

Required Skills:

• 15+ years experience in project services functions with progressive responsibility.
• Detailed knowledge of engineering/design, procurement, construction and construction management processes and their inherent performance risks. 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• Experience in the petrochemical/refining industry is required, with good understanding of CII and IPA terminology and best practices.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management Systems methods, indices, and best practices.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision; deal with aggressive deadlines and changing requirements. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience supporting formal project financial review process, working with Project Accounting organization and PMs to ensure accurate performance monitoring and management and accurate financial accounting. Experience in variance analysis vs project budget and financial plan.
• Experience providing cost estimating support for large and small project proposals for various types of contracts.
• Strong leadership presence, motivational skills, and client service oriented
• Strong at establishing mutually respectful relationships with key personnel; Meets commitments made to customers, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets as well as look for ways to improve work processes. Must be have the ability to forge strong working relationships with clients.
• Software: Primavera P6, MS Office (Project, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) & MS Access

Preferred Skills:

• Capable of supervising and communicating with the project controls team to ensure complete understanding and fulfillment of project/program objectives
• Assist and or lead effort in producing various reports
• Software: Vision 7 ERP, Aspen Capital Cost Estimator and/or GSAP