Remote Northeast Project Manager

With innovative ropeways, the Doppelmayr teams ensure world records, eye-catching highlights and enthusiasm among customers and passengers. We develop mobility solutions for the future and high-performance material handling systems for use all over the world. This is made possible by our employees, who implement our unique projects and always generate enthusiasm with innovative ideas.

Doppelmayr USA, Inc. believes that by increasing the diversity of our teams we can create new perspectives and inspiring results and can make a difference in the communities of our employees, our customers, and the world. We encourage applications from women, minority groups, veterans, and people with disabilities and strive to make inclusion a part of everything we do.

We’re looking for an experienced and highly organized Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of projects from inception to completion. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing timelines, budgets, and scope while serving as the primary point of contact for customers, internal teams, and stakeholders. You will ensure all project milestones are met, communicate with cross-functional teams, and maintain a high level of quality and customer satisfaction. This position allows for remote work, with a focus in the Northeast.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that assigned projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Single point of contact for customer, management, and all internal departments on all project related matters. The Project Manager must be included in all customer correspondence (except for daily communications between the Site Manager and the Customer) and participate in all meetings with the customer.
• Prepare and update Internal Project Specification documents.
• Responsible for project initiation including kick-off meetings and project release to all participating Doppelmayr facilities.
• Work with Customer to ensure all contract milestones are met in a timely manner, including obtaining survey data, profile approval, color approval, etc.
• Working continuously with the Sales Manager, Engineering, Construction, Site Manager, and other responsible department managers to resolve open issues.
• Have a full and complete understanding of the scope of work as defined in the contract and other supporting documents, and work with the Sales Manager and customer to clarify any scope questions in a timely manner.
• Intimately aware of production and equipment delivery schedule. Provides input to Internal Logistics Team regarding delivery priorities based on construction progress.
• Working closely with the Construction Management department to monitor detailed schedules for the project.
• Familiarity with the budget for the project using data from Pricing Calculation File or the modification worksheet. Participate in project financial meetings to explain variances and take appropriate actions.
• Continuous monitoring of all schedules, reporting on any schedule deviations to the Management team, and working to resolve schedule problems.
• Support of on-site activity during construction. Ensure that the following activities are happening in a timely manner: creation of Additional Deliveries, expediting of missing parts, design changes, shipping coordination, etc.
• Regular contact with person(s) in charge on each job site to evaluate status of work and schedule for remaining work.
• Focus on early identification of scope creep and written notification to customer prior to proceeding with the work.
• Chair and/or participate in daily internal and external meetings with Customers, Architects, Designers, and associate Engineers to facilitate the integration of external structures with the ropeway.
• Manage inter-company scope, schedule, and costs as related to the project.
• In-depth knowledge of project contract language and obligations. Ability and willingness to resolve contractual disputes with the support of legal counsel.
• Identify scope changes that occur throughout the project, and prepare notifications and/or change orders to be presented to the customer, including calculating the price of change orders.
• Negotiate all scope, cost or schedule changes with the Customer. Ensure all impacts are captured and change orders are executed.
• Provide continued detailed updates for the weekly project management meeting. Escalate critical issues to management as needed.
• Coordinate with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Ensure that submittal documents are provided in a timely manner to support Customer’s coordination with authorities who issue permits for construction and operation.
• Coordinate with designers, architects, and engineers who will be constructing, in parallel, structures that interface with the aerial ropeway system.
• Attend the acceptance test and ensure all required documentation is completed.
• Collect and consolidate punch list items from all parties and manage all punch list activities until completion, in collaboration with Customer Request Manager.
• Verify all required project documents have been completed and filed (engineering package, certifications, construction checklists, etc.).
• Cognizant of all contract payment milestones and informing Accounts Receivable when payment milestones have been achieved.
• Verify all project close-out activities have been completed.
• Responsible for hosting an internal project wrap-up and lessons learned session, summarizing and working with all departments to incorporate lessons learned.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, engineering, construction management or closely related field.
• 5 years of Project Management experience
• Outgoing Personality – willing to proactively progress communication with Customers, Associate Architects, Designer, and Engineers, and Authorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills.
• Ability to develop, lead, and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Solid organizational skills including time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems
• Engineering and Construction project experience strongly preferred.
• Experience using Confluence/JIRA for project management tasks.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.
• Experience in the ski industry is a plus.

Your Benefits

Doppelmayr USA offers:

• 401(k), including company match
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Health savings account
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off

We do not accept applications or inquiries from third-party recruiting agencies or staffing firms. All candidates must apply directly through our official channels. Any unsolicited resumes or profiles submitted by third-party agencies will not be considered. We will not be responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited candidates.