Project Manager

Requirements:

• At least 5 years in automation and/or robotics strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.E.E./B.S.C/B.S.M.E.)
• Must be willing to travel to South Carolina for extended period (3-4 weeks) in June/July
• Leads and coordinates the daily operations specific to assigned project(s) from pre-sales activity through execution of project deliverables.
• Documents and clarifies project scope, requirements, and estimates.
• Reviews project proposals to develop goals, time frame, budgets, and procedures for accomplishing projects.
• Analyzes project profitability, develops, and manages project budget, revenue recognition and invoicing, monitors receivables.
• Ensures engineering compliance with all customers and/or other pertaining specifications. Ensure company awareness to specifications.
• Understands basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections and makes decisions accordingly.
• Identifies necessary resources and leads assigned team members to goal achievement.
• Creates, executes, and adjusts project work plans as needed.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects and client interaction.
• Provides and authorizes purchases related to projects.
• Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards.
• Creates and maintains job books for each project, including Estimates, Jobs, Sales Orders, and Shippers in ERP system.
• Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Minimizes company exposure and risk on project
• Manages change and problem resolution, identifies opportunities for improvement.
• Ensures proper documentation completion (including lessons learned) and storage.
• Facilitates team and client meetings effectively, mitigates team conflict.
• Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.
• Provides periodic status reports to management.
• Builds a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization, objectives and technical capability.
• Assists on the pre-sales (definition of scope, clarification of requirements, estimation, quoting, work breakdown and scheduling) effort if required.
• Leads internal team/task forces if requested.
• Some level of travel may be required depending on the nature of the projects assigned.
• Supervises and/or coordinates activities of engineering department workers in the absence of the manager.