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PROJECT MANAGER (CONTROLS ENGINEER)
Description:
The Project Manager executes all technical and financial aspects of a project. Working closely with all internal departments and customers to insure completion of all project deliverables to schedule. Ensure total project technical excellence and deliver profitable project financial results.
Primary Duties:
Qualifications:
Interpersonal and Business:
Secondary Duties:
Description:
The Project Manager executes all technical and financial aspects of a project. Working closely with all internal departments and customers to insure completion of all project deliverables to schedule. Ensure total project technical excellence and deliver profitable project financial results.
Primary Duties:
- Create project charters
- Review the system configuration with Application Engineer and lead Project engineer to make sure it aligns with scope and /or assists in development and updates the system configuration
- Develop and communicate changing instructions for hours and expenses for the entire project team
- Create T and E summary for all project invoicing templates for use by the business manager
- Schedules and conducts internal kickoff meetings with key individuals and conducts monthly project status meetings with the project team
- Conducts customer kickoff meetings
- Creates Project Execution Plans with input from lead project engineer
- Facilitates Function Specification with assistance from the project team
- Manages all project issues, either technical or financial
- Manages and updates the project schedule with all internal departments to ensure all project milestones are met on time
- Conduct bi-weekly or monthly project team meetings to ensure the team understands current status, technical, and financial issues and the overall project status to deliverables
- Manage and Report on: Schedule and budget with actuals and forecast to business management
- Review billable hours on a biweekly basis to ensure that billable hours are accounted for correctly
- Produce project specific cash flows
- Initiate all phases of the project per the schedule hardware design, drafting, purchasing, manufacturing, testing
- Conducts/attends/leads regular customer status meetings through the design and commissioning process
- Factory Acceptance Test Plan write up coordinates and develops documents with team input to ensure overall technical quality and testing
- Formal Customer Factory Test Project Manager will coordinate and lead customers through the test
- Will handle multiple projects at one time. Projects will generally exceed $500k in value
Qualifications:
- Engineering degree or project management degree, and at least 3 to 5 years of related industrial or automation experience
- Aptitude in electrical and mechanical devices as pertains to metals industry automation (i.e. PLCs, AC/DC drive equipment, high voltage and interface devices
- Can apply basic PLC programming, HMI systems, high voltage equipment and interfaces, and automation techniques as it pertains to the metals industry
- Understands all product safety and equipment safety in designs and on site
- Understanding of electrical schematics, mechanical, hydraulic and installation documentation would be a highly preferred skill
Interpersonal and Business:
- Must have leadership qualities
- Knowledge of leading a team and managing individuals to ensure project goals
- An understanding of customer relationships and the interaction within the project
- A dedication to produce a technical and financially excellent project for CLIENT and the end customer
Secondary Duties:
- Be a flexible and adaptive member of the CLIENT team, occasionally shifting focus to augment or help other projects or teams outside the primary scope of duties
- A desire to continue to learn and adapt new skills
- Continually improve skills and knowledge to advance within the organization
- Bring new information, ideas, and practices to the CLIENT team, but also being capable of following direction and orders from management and leadership
- Being receptive to knowledge, ideas, experiences, and problem solving of other members assigned to your project, but also being able to decide and stand behind it
