Project Manager/Production Planner

Rapid Industries is looking for a Project Manager/Production Planner to assist with capital sales projects. This role will work directly with the Project Sales Group to create achievable production schedules, serve as a liaison, arbitrator, and moderator for maximizing all project production to achieve Rapid's future growth goals. Our market and culture, along with our strategic plan for staying in safe markets has kept Rapid prosperous since 1967 and will continue to remain prosperous with the help of this role. 

Primary Job Duties: 
The primary duty of the project manager is to create detailed project plans and ensure that the teams follow the activities outlined in the plans to deliver projects on schedule and within budget. Some key duties and responsibilities include:

• Outlining the scope of projects, including determining the start and delivery dates of each phase and create KPI's for all team members to strive for. 
• Create and define project goals and objectives at each level of the project from engineering, production, installation, execution, and financial aspects. 
• Analyze contractual language, guarantees, and contractual risk assessments prior to signing contracts, including final purchase order review with project sales team, assist in final negotiation. 
• Analyze each phase of projects to determine budgets creating KPI's for job costing/accounting to present. 
• Track project costs and ensure implementation stays within predicted estimates and share information regularly with team members. 
• Estimate project timeline and make sure teams adhere to delivery dates. 
• Manage the human and capital resources of a project to ensure timely delivery. 
• Ensure projects have adequate staff to complete each stage on schedule. 
• Identify and evaluate risks that can derail project delivery and provide solutions to prevent them, assisting with communication with customer and project sales to agree upon solutions. 
• Provide reports on deviations to the original project plan that can lead to delays, budget overruns, assist in adders, contract changes, and lead time adjustments. 
• Prepare and present internal and external project reports. 
• Trench work: Assist in job creating, participate with print review/Engineering support, assist in best use of inventory/shipping for JIT goal achievement, maximizing cash flow, and assist with purchasing and accounting for correct costing of projects and jobs. 

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of project management experience in manufacturing. 
• College degree in related field preferred.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems. 
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Excellent customer service skills. 
• Ability to work in a team. 
• Ability to work with high-level management.