Beneva Group has been retained by a leading system integration automation company to help them find their next (Sr.) Project Manager in the beautiful St. Joseph, MI, area. This high-performing Project Manager will lead multiple projects at one time, handling $10M+ in projects annually, with a strong focus on external customer-facing projects.
There is tremendous opportunity for growth and advancement within this organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead and deliver a variety of projects to customer satisfaction with on time delivery and a "beat the budget" mindset while managing and mentoring the project team resources.
Strictly adhere to and coach team members on the company's project management fundamentals.
Initiate and sustain project-related documentation, including budget management, labor forecasts, risk register, schedule, open issues list, change management/ECO tracker, lessons learned, and final acceptance testing.
Facilitate internal and customer-attended design reviews with special attention given to avoid scope creep while applying pre-determined risk mitigation plans.
Maintain a detailed schedule (MS Project for complex jobs) with a clearly identified Critical Path, ensuring the customer and project team are aware of related constraints.
Help the team identify un-planned costs and their associated root causes that feed into the company's systemic problem-solving efforts
Work closely with engineering and supply chain management to ensure timely design release and ordering of materials and help develop Supplier Statements of Work for outsourcing of custom sub systems.
Control all project changes that impact scope, schedule, budget, or FAT/SAT Acceptance testing by using company tools and systems to log initial change requests from the customer or the project team. After requests are logged, follow company's change management process to ensure proper resolution.
Look for opportunities to document lessons learned during all project phases and document per company standards
Lead customer review meetings for project proposals and initiate regular project updates to customers consistent with the Project Execution Map while interacting with all levels of management, clients, contractors, and vendors
Travel to customer site and oversee the Site Acceptance Testing and final buy-off
QUALIFICATIONS
Technical engineering education (Bachelor's or Master's in engineering or related field)
Strong project management experience in engineering environments