Automation Project Manager

Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager is responsible for being the liaison between PMD and the customer, as well as managing projects from Customer Kick-off to completion.

Essential Functions

• Project Leader
• Maintain schedule.
• Conduct internal team meetings on a regular basis.
• Conduct customer meetings on a regular basis.
• Coordinate debug and FAT plans.
• Road Block Removal and/or Conflict Resolution.
• Coordinate shipping, installation, startup, and SAT activities at customer site.
• Ensure that all project deliverables are met.
• Project Planner
• Clear understanding of the project scope.
• Develop schedule, build and debug plans.
• Identify project resourcing needs and assignments.
• Develop and maintain an Open/Action item list.
• Prepare Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s) as required.
• Monitor project budget.
• Release drawings and BOM’s from Engineering to procurement.
• Communication
• Interface with customer and team to ensure all needs are met.
• Provides status and progress reports to customers, project team and management.
• Coordinate the flow of information to and from the customer and project team.
• Interfaces with accounting to ensure that billings are submitted upon achieving milestones.
• Observe safety procedures.
  
  

Other Duties

• Maintain a clean and orderly work area.
• Any other task assigned by management within scope of position, federal and state regulations.
  
  

Requirements

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Engineering Degree.
• 10 or more years’ experience in project management in the Automation Industry is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft office including Microsoft Project.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Effective verbal and written communication.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret mechanical drawings.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Organized
• Detail oriented
• Ability to work independently and to collaborate on a team
• Creative/Innovative
• Time management skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, Project, and Outlook.
• Experience with CAD viewers.
• Multi-tasker.
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and smell.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment is primarily performed indoors around moving mechanical parts at a moderate noise level.
• Occasionally perform work outdoors in all types of weather.
• Wear safety equipment, including proper PPE.
• Occasional travel.
• Ability to work overtime.