Project Manager - Nidec Automatic Feed

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. General:
   • Provide leadership for the project team.
     • Be coach/cheerleader
     • Get to know the customer and communicate with them regularly, both formally and informally.
   • Know and understand scope and contract requirements of each project. Manage each project according to these elements.
   • Develop a Project Organization Chart for each project.
   • Submit and receive for distribution to department the completed specification sheets.
   • Regularly meet, both formally and informally, with project team members to keep communication channels open.
   • Approve and distribute Project Change Authorizations.
   • Ensure that customers receive project updates.
   • Initiate Request to Invoice Customers form per contracts.
   • Take photos of equipment as set up for shipping forms are signed prior to power being pulled.
2. Schedule
   • Assist in the creation of Master Schedule
   • Assist in creating and maintaining Microsoft Project Schedule.
3. Cost
   • Review and react to the cost projection report.
   • Review Manager's Timeline Reports and follow up as needed.
   • Attend Production Coordination Team Meetings and project-related meetings as scheduled.
   • Ensure that project stays within original scope (Control with Project Change Authorizations).
   • Ensure that original budgets are maintained (control with Project Change Authorizations).
4. Communications
   • Regularly attend PIT Meetings.
   • Maintain and contribute to Project Open Issues List (Maintain a log of appropriate meeting minutes, punch lists, submitted by Team).
   • Review bi-weekly with department teams the status of projects.
5. Engineering for each project
   • Monitor and follow up on Engineering progress throughout the project.
6. Purchasing Coordination
   • Ensure that long lead items are communicated
   • Follow all purchases via the MS Project Schedule
   • Contract, negotiate, and schedule major purchases (i.e. press, oilers, dies, installation services, etc.)
7. Line Check-Out
   • Accompany customers during check-out.
   • Ensure that line check-out sheets are completed and signed. (mech., elect., eng.)
   • Manage punch lists.
   • Make sure that photographs are taken of the line as set up at AFCo for use in installation.
8. Manuals
   • Follow up that manuals are completed, updated and sent to the customer in a timely manner.
9. Installation
   • Ensure Requests for Quote for installation contractors are completed, updated and sent to customer in a timely manner.
   • Develop and maintain the installation schedule.
   • Coordinate AFCo sign-up sheets for the field service installation.
   • Supervise field service installations when applicable.
   • Mange the installation contractors
     • Schedule
     • Project Change Authorization
     • Daily Reports (including activity and hours use daily work logs)
10. Customer Plant Start-Up (CPS)
    
    • Coordinate AFCo Start-Up Team.
    • Ensure that the CPS Customer Satisfaction Survey is provided to the start-up team for customer feedback.
    • Ensure all customer final acceptance tests are completed
    • Manage all punch lists.
11. Project Wrap-Up
    • Conduct Project Evaluation meetings for all project phases.
    • Ensure that feedback from the project Evaluation meetings is filed for future use as part of R&M mistake proofing.
    • Ensure Final Cost Report is completed.

Job requirements:

1. Associate's degree in engineering or equivalent experience in project coordination.
2. Dedicated and strong leader.
3. Excellent product/customer knowledge.
4. Highly organized with a high energy level.
5. Excellent communicator and facilitator.
6. Ability to set goals for and maintain direction in project meetings.
7. Must be a confident decision maker.
8. Must be respected by management, peers and subordinates.
9. Must be unencumbered by politics.
10. Must be focused on the projects at hand.
11. Must be proficient in: Microsoft Project, Excel, Word.
12. Project management training or related experience in project coordination.
13. Project management professional certification or a desire to obtain certification.
14. Willingness to travel as required.

Cognitive Requirements:

• Technical Capacity
• Communication Proficiency
• Problem Solving/Analysis

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

Normal office environment. Involved in small and large meetings. Will be required to travel to customer plants, vendor offices/plants, and construction sites.