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Commercial Fire Protection Project Manager Lead Operational Excellence and Protect Lives at IFSS

Job Overview

• Company: Intelligent Fire Systems & Solutions (IFSS)
• Pay rate: Competitive salary, based on experience
• Department: Construction / Project Management
• Location: Reno, Nevada
• Reports To: Regional Manager
• FLSA Status: Exempt
• Job/Employment Type: Full-Time
• Project Scope: Commercial fire-life safety construction projects (fire alarm, very early warning, and specialized life-safety solutions)

The Opportunity

You will take the helm of vital commercial safety installations, steering projects from initial pre-construction planning through final closeout. Operating out of the Reno/Sparks area, you will be given the ownership and structural backing required to protect properties and human lives by ensuring high-consequence safety systems are built right every single time.

How You Will Make an Impact

• End-to-End Execution: Direct commercial safety construction projects to guarantee complete compliance with budgets, design specs, code updates, and strict timelines.
• Scheduling Excellence: Develop, sequence, and manage detailed project schedules utilizing Gantt charts, look-ahead parameters, or CPM methods.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Serve as the centralized point of contact across internal leadership, site supervisors, field teams, vendors, and clients.
• Document Control: Actively track and resolve RFIs, look-aheads, submittals, change orders, punch lists, and project risk registers.
• Financial & Quality Controls: Partner with estimating and procurement teams to forecast costs, manage changes, track material pipelines, and conduct quality control inspections at key project milestones.
• Safety Leadership: Coordinate site-specific safety protocols, ensuring absolute jobsite adherence to OSHA guidelines, personal protective equipment (PPE) deployment, and local building safety codes.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Core Competence: Proven capability to successfully coordinate and manage commercial project scopes, schedules, budgets, and closeout protocols.
• Documentation Skills: Sharp aptitude for reading, interpreting, and coordinating construction drawings, contracts, specifications, and workflows.
• Mobility & Compliance: Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record for local travel to Reno/Sparks jobsites; compliance with background and standard pre-employment checks.
• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Industry Focus: 3 to 5 years of project management experience specifically within commercial fire protection, fire alarm, MEP, low-voltage, or specialty subcontractor construction environments.
• Advanced Education: Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Project Management, Engineering, or Business.
• Certifications: OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification; NICET credentials, fire protection certifications, or corporate project management certifications (PMP/CAPM).
• Software Toolkit: Familiarity with modern construction stack platforms such as BuildOps, Procore, Bluebeam, or Microsoft Project.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary tailored to your individual portfolio and depth of field experience.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life-safety insurance structures.
• Dedicated company vehicle privileges or travel reimbursement structures for active job site routing.
• Accrued paid time off (PTO) allocations alongside recognized company holidays.

About Us

Intelligent Fire Systems & Solutions (IFSS) is a fire-life safety construction and service company founded in 2014 with a clear and unwavering purpose: to protect lives, property, and peace of mind. Built on decades of industry expertise, IFSS delivers fire alarm, very early warning, and life-safety solutions with precision, care, and an uncompromising commitment to doing the work the right way every time. At IFSS, life safety is more than a trade; it is a responsibility we take personally.

Intelligent Fire Systems & Solutions (IFSS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or any other status protected by law or regulations. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.