What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at John H. Carter Company, Inc.?
Summary:
Lead and manage internal and customer-facing communication on projects surrounding Emerson Automation Solutions Distributed Control Systems, various PLC Systems, and related industrial process instrumentation. Emerson DeltaV DCS/SIS platform and related AMS solutions are primary platforms. Programmable Logic Controllers include primarily Emerson PAC Systems, Rockwell Automation and Modicon. Flow Computers include ROC and Bristol.
Duties:
Project Planning:
- Participate in internal hand-off from sales phase to execution phase. Responsible for developing list of hand-off deliverables from sales team to execution team
- Create and maintain project schedules (software: Microsoft Project). Schedules to include tracking total project deliverables, financial milestones, and key project timeframes.
- Define and prepare project responsibility assignment matrix (RACI matrix).
Project Execution:
- Lead conference calls and project meetings as needed.
- Provide meeting minutes and recap emails for any meetings/conference calls.
- Coordinate cabinet drawing review and approval with PAS lead and/or panel department lead.
- Responsible/coordinator for any necessary drawings/documentation needed for projects (system architecture drawings, server cabinet drawings, cable schedule, …) (Software: Visio)
- Assist in developing hardware FAT procedures.
- Work with sales personnel to provide change order quotations needed in a timely manner:
- Sales lead is responsible for final proposal, to be issued to PM.
- Sales lead / PM, as appropriate, to issue change order to customer.
- Consultation with sales personnel to place and track orders.
- Consultation with sales and services departments on project payment schedule.
- Maintain and update project schedules.
- Ensure that team members are all on the same page and have up to date documentation.
- Deliverable, hardware, time and cost management.
- Resolve, trace and escalate critical issues to minimize project risk factors.
- Communicating intensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship.
- Reporting on project progress and communicate relevant information to superiors and company management.
- Work with the Service and Project groups to ensure personnel allocation is assigned per project schedule and tasks.
Project Completion:
- Ensure all project deliverables have been provided.
- Confirm that all documentation is complete and backed up on the server. (Post FAT documentation, Panel Documentation, etc.)
- Ensure all invoices are issued and paid.
- Document lessons learned and report to upper management to help mitigate those in the future.
- Close project in time accounting.
- Project Closing Surveys.
Education
Required:
High school diploma
Preferred:
- Engineering or Computer Science Bachelor’s degree in related field
- Equivalent years of directly related experience
Experience
Required:
Strong Microsoft Office productivity software experience.
Preferred:
Process control concepts, instrumentation and electrical concepts.
Experience participating in automation projects.
Experience managing industrial automation projects.
Knowledge of the Emerson Process Management DeltaV DCS system and AMS Device Manager Systems.
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