Project Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Initiates and integrates project across all functional groups including Customer's team.
• Identifies key project stakeholders and manages project stakeholder's expectations within the project business case constrains.
• Establishes communication channels and distributes key project information to provide a communication bridge between the project team and the Customer.
• Collects project requirements, develops scope definition, and establishes high level project goals and objectives for the project team in alignment with project contract documents and the Customer.
• Develops project cost5 and schedule baseline ensuring commitments from functional groups.
• Tracks and manages project critical path activities and deliverables.
• Provides project leadership and manages project execution.
• Ensure project quality objectives are met by developing quality plan and performing quality checks (e.g. specification approvals, factory & Site acceptance equipment's tests).
• Reports project progress to the Senior Management.
• Monitors project risk and recommends mitigation strategies. Undertakes initiatives to exploit opportunities to increase project value to the company and the Customer.
• Monitors and manages project changes and where appropriate issues Change Notices for Customer Approval.
• Approves project invoicing according to the milestone payment schedule and work completed.
• Monitors project cash flow spending.
• Initiates, manages, or delegates management of subcontracts and subcontracted deliverables.
• Collaborates with Functional Managers to meet project resource requirements while ensuring optimum resource allocation across multiple PMO projects is achieved.
• Performs project close out according to the contractual acceptance criteria.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Excellent and experienced communicator at all levels of organization.
• Well organized with positive approach to Company's standards and departmental policies.
• Excellent documentation maintenance skills.
• Relentless drive for continuous improvement and cost savings.
• Hand-on approach to problem solving with find the root cause and "dig deep" analysis attitude.
• Practices rigorous objectivity & cultivates balanced optimism.
• Knowledge seeker and unbiased facts source with coaching skills.
• Strong user of MS Excel.
• Good, working knowledge of MS Project.
• Good, working knowledge of AutoCAD.
• Good grasp of ERP and Purchasing systems.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Technical College or University in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Project Manager in a custom automation industry.
• Training in Project Management.
• Training in Quality a strong asset.
• P.Eng. or PMP an asset.

COMPENSATION:

• $110, 000 - $125, 000 per year.
• Plus overtime.