Elma Electronic Inc. is a global leader and industry innovator in advanced embedded computing solutions. Our products and integrated platforms are based on a set of modular building blocks such as, precision hardware components, rotary switches, and embedded computing boards.
As a global organization, we stay close to our customers and partners worldwide with sales, design, and manufacturing facilities across three continents.
Your Solution Partner.
We have an excellent opportunity for an accomplished Project Manager to join our team in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Our ideal candidate will play a lead role in organizing, planning, and executing projects while working within restraints like budgets and schedules. The PM will lead entire teams, define project goals, communicate with stakeholders, and see a project through to its closure.
Responsibilities:
Their responsibilities at a high level include:
Defining the scope of the project
Staying on schedule
Planning a project's cost and sticking to a budget
Managing project resources (including teams and workers)
Documenting the progress of the project
Communicating with stakeholders
Assessing risks
Troubleshooting
In more detail, a strong project manager will effectively lead projects as follows:
Based on the requirements, objectives, deliverables, and proposed solution, develop a detailed project plan schedule with the identified task dependencies and critical path
Identify, estimate, plan, and document the resources required to achieve the project objectives and deliverables
Ensure coordination of activity, driving of progress, and tracking status against project plans, timelines, and changing priorities from initiation through closeout
Evaluate change requests and manage the associated changes to project scope, time, and cost
Coordinate directly and indirectly with project staff to ensure successful completion of projects, including directing, supervising, supporting and coordinating the project team members
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel and ensure accountability for task completion
Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and continually manage those expectations
Define the project scope, success criteria, objectives, and deliverables that are aligned with business strategy and objectives
Report project status on a regular basis and assist in preparation of steering committee presentations as required
Identify and manage project risks and track/manage resolution of project issues
Balance and manage the project constraints of scope, cost, time, resources, risk, and quality
Manage key stakeholder expectations, concerns, and needs throughout the project
Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
Lead post implementation reviews
Partner with the cross functional project teams to build and implement a change management plan
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Cross function leadership and integration
Excellent verbal and written communication with team members, stakeholders, vendors, and customers
Highly organized - able to prioritize and multitask to keep a portfolio of projects running smoothly
Critical thinking - analyzing and evaluating situations to help prevent issues before they happen
A great attitude and sense of humor - having a positive approach to the projects and problems can ease stress and energize the project team members
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree with studies in project management is a plus
PMP and/or CAPM certifications are a plus
A minimum of 5-7 years leading large, complex projects preferably in a manufacturing environment
Elma offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and benefits package.
Elma Electronic Inc. is proud of our diversity and equal employment opportunity practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.