“Project Manager” is a familiar title, but the work can look very different from one industry to another. In environmental consulting, the role requires more than schedules and paperwork. At FACS, a Project Manager helps move environmental and industrial hygiene projects from early client conversations through field activity, budgeting, reporting, and close-out.
For candidates coming from outside the industry, that can be surprising. This is a role with technical, operational, client-facing, and business responsibilities, and it helps to understand that before applying.
Quick Answer
A Project Manager at FACS helps manage asbestos, lead, mold, and other industrial hygiene projects from beginning to end. That can include speaking with clients, preparing proposals and budgets, reviewing scope and contracts, assigning staff, overseeing field work, monitoring costs and timing, preparing reports, and helping keep projects moving operationally and financially.
What Kind of Projects Does a FACS Project Manager Handle?
This is a consulting role tied to field conditions, client needs, and technical project requirements. A FACS Project Manager may be involved in projects related to asbestos, lead, mold, and other industrial hygiene concerns. The work can include on-site surveys, inspections, assessments, abatement oversight, safety procedure monitoring, and auditing for regulatory compliance.
In other words, this is not simply an internal office role. It operates at the point where technical knowledge, project coordination, and client service meet.
What Does the Work Look Like Day to Day?
A normal day or week can include several different kinds of work. A Project Manager may attend job walks or pre-construction walks, meet with potential or current clients, respond to client and field questions, review project drawings and specifications, and help define project scope and deliverables. The role also includes opening projects properly, establishing schedules, assigning staff, and monitoring field activity and project quality.
On the administrative and financial side, the role includes preparing proposals and budgets, reviewing time entry, checking laboratory turnaround times and outside lab charges, reviewing work in progress, following invoicing procedures, and sometimes assisting Accounting with collections or invoicing issues. The Project Manager is also expected to use Clearview for time, expenses, and milestone updates and to save project records into the electronic project file.
This is a role for someone who can keep many moving parts aligned without losing sight of quality, timing, client needs, and project cost.
How Much of the Role Is Field-Based?
This position is not purely office-based. Project Managers may perform field investigations, monitor field personnel activity and quality, verify equipment calibration, and travel to different project locations as needed. The position may also involve standing, walking, climbing stairs or ladders, crawling through small spaces, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
Some applicants may hear the words “Project Manager” and assume the role is mostly email, meetings, and spreadsheets. At FACS, the role includes a field component and requires someone who is comfortable with that reality. Fieldwork is not just an every now and then duty for us — it is often where you’ll invest at least half your time.
Why Communication Matters in This Role
A FACS Project Manager must communicate clearly and professionally with both clients and internal teams. That includes taking client calls, attending meetings, answering questions, and maintaining effective written and oral communication. Additional responsibilities may include delivering presentations and participating in business development activities.
This role works best for someone who can explain things clearly, respond professionally, and keep communication moving when projects involve multiple people and shifting demands.
What Business and Operational Responsibilities Come With the Role?
This is one of the most important points for candidates to understand. At FACS, Project Management includes business and operational responsibility. The role involves preparing proposals and budgets, monitoring budgets, reviewing rates and service codes, checking work in progress, supporting invoicing, and meeting targets tied to the Incentive Compensation Plan. It also includes making and logging customer service or business development calls, attending association and targeted meetings, arranging presentations, delivering presentations, and helping prepare marketing resources such as project summaries.
So while the title includes the word “project,” the role includes more than schedules and task tracking. It also requires financial awareness, client responsiveness, and support for growth.
What This Role Is Not
This is not a narrowly administrative Project Manager role, and it is not a position limited to internal scheduling. It also is not a purely technical field role with little client contact. At FACS, the position consists of technical work, project delivery, client service, and business responsibility.
That combination is part of what makes the role meaningful, but it is also part of what makes the job demanding.
What Skills Help Someone Succeed?
People who do well in this role are usually strong in several areas at once. They communicate clearly, stay organized, manage changing priorities, and keep details from slipping when projects involve many moving parts. They are comfortable dealing with clients, working with staff, and moving between field conditions and office responsibilities. They also have the technical background to make sound decisions in environmental and industrial hygiene work.
A good fit is someone who likes practical problem-solving, thinks ahead, and understands that details matter.
What May Surprise New Applicants?
Candidates coming from outside environmental consulting may be surprised by how much range the role requires. This is not only a scheduling or coordination position. A FACS Project Manager may move between site visits, client communication, budgeting, technical oversight, report review, staff coordination, and business development responsibilities in the same week.
Another reality that may surprise some applicants is that this is not an entry-level generalist role. The position calls for current required state licensure for the work performed, current certifications, a valid driver’s license and insurance, annual medical exams and respirator fit testing, and strong technical and industry knowledge with successful experience managing small to mid-scale projects. A bachelor’s degree in Industrial Hygiene, Health and Safety, Biological or Physical Science, or equivalent background is also important.
Who Is This Role a Good Fit For?
This role can be a strong fit for someone who likes variety, responsibility, and practical problem-solving. It can also fit someone who enjoys helping technical work move forward from first conversation to final deliverable. A successful FACS Project Manager can work well with clients and staff, handle field realities, and stay attentive to scope, timing, budgets, and documentation.
It may be a poor fit for someone who wants a narrowly administrative position, a role with little client interaction, or a job with no field demands.
Why This Work Matters
Projects in asbestos, lead, mold, industrial hygiene, and related environmental services affect health, safety, compliance, schedules, and costs. A strong Project Manager helps make sure the work is scoped correctly, staffed properly, performed responsibly, documented clearly, and delivered in a way that serves both the client and the larger mission of the company.
The Project Manager role at FACS is crucial to our mission. It helps technical work become organized, useful, and dependable.
For additional information or to apply, call FACS at (888) 711-9998 or contact us online here: https://facs.com/contact-us/.