Project Manager - Sterling Engineering, Inc.
Liberty, SC 29657
About the Job
Project Manager
Contract Position expected to run until April 2025
Pay: $40-55/hr
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the overall leadership of the project including managing scope, change, schedule, cost, quality, open issues, risks, resources, and overall project communications as well as leading the team to success. Projects assigned will include initial engineering, design reviews both internal and external, procurement, build, debug, FAT, shipping, SAT, and in some cases warranty work.
- Builds relationships with key customer contacts and acts as primary point of communication to the customer for assigned projects. Understands customer's business and speaks their language. Develops credibility, loyalty, trust, and commitment.
- Leads a cross-functional project team through JR’s Project Execution Process (PEP) with overall responsibility and authority for project performance throughout the project life cycle. Acceptance and sharing of best practices and lessons learned, continuously improving the JR Project Execution Process (PEP). Having a PMP is very desirable.
- In-depth understanding of the financial details and budget of each assigned project. Tracking hours, costs, estimates to complete, and quoting engineering changes. Presenting and negotiating engineering changes to the customer.
- Proactive decision analysis capabilities; takes into consideration size, complexity, visible and unknown risks, timelines, etc. *Uses assigned systems to communicate current and future state of project performance. Coordinates and monitors project documentation, timelines, technical performance, budget, production, quality deliverables, and corrective action initiatives. *Supports and adheres to policies, procedures, and operational guidelines related to the established quality management system.
- Maintains working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.
- Role is set in a high paced work environment, designing, building and delivering state of the art automation to demanding customers on aggressive timelines while meeting ISO standards and sold budgets.
Requirements:
- Experience in direct customer commercial management and cross-functional team leadership on automation or integrated mechanical projects.
- Strong technical background. Moderately advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and MS Project. Ability to become proficient in company systems, processes, and tools. Strong aptitude in either mechanical or electrical engineering. Experience in managing $1M+ project budgets.
- Educational requirements: Bachelor's degree or 5+ years experience in project management. PMP highly preferred.
Source : Sterling Engineering, Inc.