Responsible for planning, organizing, and maintaining project schedules and technical resources by working with department managers and project managers.Coordinate with interdepartmental personnel concerning technical support issues, engineering and technical staff schedules and resource assignment. |
Job Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions) |
- Review demand vs capacity of engineers, designers, field service and test technicians and assign staff to projects based on their skills and availability needed for the task.
- Create project plans and schedules for achieving each delivery milestone.
- Set clear goals and objectives, assess progress, and instill a performance-oriented culture with a focus on accountability and communication.
- Coordinate with various disciplines within the organization (architectural, mechanical, process, structural, etc.) to collaborate, optimize, and improve work and staff sharing by participating in regular multi-discipline project meetings.
- Assist all levels of Management in articulating labor capacity in support of strategic and business objectives.
- Validate existing KPIs for effectiveness and implement new KPIs for ensuring on-time delivery.
- Collaborate with assistant project managers, engineers, and technicians to meet project deliverables, contract requirements, schedule and budget expectations.
- Support compliance of Quality Assurance requirements according to ISO 9001:2015, customer, national, and international standards.
- Support the development and maintenance of project schedules and manpower requirements.
- Create and maintain engineering and service documentation such as work instructions, guides, and new product implementation plans.
- Support technical staff resource coordination with production work activities such as assembly, QA, test, and troubleshooting.
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Required Skills and Experience (Minimum requirements in terms of educational background, work experience, licenses/certifications or other knowledge, skills, and abilities). |
- Create, maintain and optimize project and resource schedules based on requirements from customers, suppliers and internal departments.
- Skilled at using Gantt charts and other organizational and planning tools.
- Experience using Epicor or similar ERP system.
- Experience working in manufacturing and multi-disciplined or similar industry.
- Proven ability to anticipate and plan through all aspects of the project management process.
- Report on the status of project deliverables to management and other departments.
- Create, track and show improvements of KPIs and other business metrics.
- Establish and maintain internal, customer, and supplier relationships.
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Additional Skills and Experience(Preferred or helpful) |
- 2-year degree in business or technical fields. Bachelor’s degree is a plus.
- 5+ years of project management experience.
- Staff management experience is a plus.
- Must be well versed in working with people, processes, changing demands of an engineering-manufacturing product organization.
- Must be self-motivated, have good interpersonal skills, capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and experience.
- Demonstrated effective project supervisory and leadership skills.
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