Overview
Summary of Position:
The Project Manager is the primary interface between the Customer Integration team and the customer. Responsibilities include serving as the primary customer contact for all implementation activities, coordinating all activities associated with the customer integration project, developing and maintaining project schedules, coordinating and scheduling all resources required for the project, and identifying issues impacting the project schedule. The Project Manager will be responsible for managing multiple simultaneous projects as well as installing the projects on site.
Essential Functions:
• Responsible for project planning, communication and accountability of overall project.
• Manage project communication with stakeholders and customer.
• Responsible for resource requirement definition, assignation and scheduling that will include customer personnel, personnel, and outside contractors.
• Act as the liaison for project transition from Sales to Customer Integration.
• Develops, installs, refines, validates and ensures completion of all project work plans, which could include, PLC Coding and Software implementation.
• Generates timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues.
• Builds consensus among multiple groups/departments relative to project scope, task execution, staffing, and issue resolution.
• Interacts with project sponsors, stakeholders and various project members to ensure that specified business needs are met; responsible for the post-project analysis to ensure that requirements are fulfilled.
• Analyzes processes and makes recommendations for improving efficiency, product delivery, and expense reduction in projects.
• Completes and submits all administrative reports on time such as expense reports, project status reports, project plans, and customer training and acceptance documents.
• Responsible for working with customers, Sales, Marketing, and Product Development to ensure customer requirements are recognized and detailed for development purposes by the use of functional requirements documentation.
• Travel Requirement – 50%.
• Performs related duties as assigned.
Competencies:
• Excellent project management skills.
• Good analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills to evaluate business problems and apply knowledge to identify appropriate solutions.
• Good interpersonal skills, with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good analytical and mathematical skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to think strategically and act tactfully.
• Ability to work with cross functional teams.
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments.
• Advanced knowledge of ARxIUM applications.
• Knowledge of computers to operate effectively with computer hardware and software, and within MS applications.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accountancy, sales, marketing, computer sciences or similar vocations.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or willing to obtain, may be considered.
• Conveyor and Automation experience.
• Engineering and Electrical experience.
• Healthcare experience preferred.