Facilities Project Specialist; Temporary

Overview

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Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Facilities Project Specialist (Temporary) to join our Facilities department based in Grand Prairie, TX
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In this role, you’ll guide enterprise efforts for the company's solar canopy project and other facilities construction projects, coordinating proponent groups and building committees to facilitate rational facility planning, budgeting, and scheduling. Prepare requests for proposals and manage facilities capital expenditure budgets, while maintaining high client, customer, and user satisfaction with services provided. Recommend and manage initiatives to increase and improve service delivery considering cost, schedule, and quality.

This assignment is temporary and could last up to 24 months.

Your working environment is described as a suburb just outside the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters with more than 1,000 employees.

Your challenges include primary responsibilities and project coordination with various stakeholders to enable effective facility planning, budgeting, and scheduling, and extensive project control activities.

• Project coordination with proponent groups and building committees: coordinates with stakeholders to facilitate rational facility planning, budgeting, and scheduling; maintain high client, customer, and user satisfaction; support Health & Safety program initiatives and ensure compliance; ensure effective written and oral communication with consultants and internal customers during all design and construction phases.
• Manage project controls: perform reviews and analysis of schedule and cost indexes and variances; conduct daily quality assurance inspections and review submittals, RFIs, change requests, and designs for adherence to project baseline documents; ensure adherence to contract, business management, and procurement requirements; monitor and report on planning and construction activities.
• Requests for Proposals and Statements of Work (SOW): prepare requests for proposals, facilitate meetings to hire architectural and construction management services, prepare SOWs, and write/evaluate proposals to select best vendors considering cost, quality, scope and schedule.
• Facility capital expenditure budgets: prepare, submit, and manage budgets and projects with client goals addressed; track variances and ensure smooth recovery; coordinate with Workplace resources to limit business disruption; prepare project reports and control expenditures per budget.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Facilities Construction/Project Management/Engineering or related field.
• 1 year in operations, maintenance, or construction of sizable solar generation site/project, electrical utility systems, or electric generation.
• 2 years in Facilities or Construction project management as a project manager, assistant project manager, or project controls specialist.
• State issued driver’s license; up to 5% domestic travel involved.
• US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license).
• Working knowledge of OSHA, NFPA, and ADA standards; knowledge of IBC and industry trends, best practices, and technology.
• Ability to read blueprints and construction drawings; experience with significant construction/renovation projects.
• Ability to lead and motivate a diverse workforce; ability to work without direct supervision; strong verbal and written communication in English.
• Ability to write detailed project status reports; proficiency in general office software (Google Workspace or Microsoft Office); familiarity with Microsoft Project or similar project management software.

• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in Facilities Construction/Project Management/Engineering or related field.
• 5 years in Facilities or Construction project…