Project Manager - Holland, MI

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks.
• Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables.
• Engage in a hands-on approach throughout the project’s lifecycle.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate leadership and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan.
• Required Skills and Qualifications
• Three or more years of project management experience in the automation industry
• Hands-on engagement with engineering and manufacturing throughout the project
• Strong attention to details, deadlines and budgetary guidelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Documentation management and the ability to use project management tools and software.
• Character Competencies
• Ethical conduct.
• Critical thinking, judgement, and decision-making skills.
• Must enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and solving customer challenges.
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment with excellent communication skills.
• Time management and organizational skills are essential.
• Enjoy a combination of office work and hands-on work alongside the Machine Builders.
• Must be able to effectively present information to management.
• Ability to effectively respond to common inquiries and complaints from customers.
• Cultural Competencies
• Our ten cultural values, or the "10 Ps", are the backbone of our company. These are the words that are running through our heads during every customer meeting, design review, and big business decision. Do these resonate with you?
• Purpose: We do everything with integrity for our customers, team and community.
• People: We succeed through leadership, relationships, teamwork and accountability.
• Perspective: We are fluid and respond to market needs using our quick lead time as a competitive advantage.
• Positive: We exhibit a positive attitude and a professional environment that is uplifting.
• Partnership: We partner with our customers and suppliers for shared success.
• Precision: We attend to the details from design to delivery to uphold our reputation for quality.
• Performance: We design reliable equipment and help manufacturers’ products perform better.
• Perseverance: We embrace challenges that foster innovation and work hard to bring results.
• Planet: We are stewards of our resources and our environment.
• Profit: We maximize customer satisfaction and use creativity over capital that fuels perpetual growth.
• Physical Demands and Work Environment
• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Physical Demands:
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be able to remain in a stationary position extended periods of time and be able to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Based on project assignment, may require work in the manufacturing area for testing of Software which may include use of machinery, hand tools and testing equipment.
• Operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer and must have the ability to use hands to handle, control or feel objects or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• Constantly communicate and exchange information with team members and must be able to effectively communicate correct information. Be able to meet with customers, teammates, and project teams in person as required.
• Read/comprehend, write, communicate orally, reasoning and analytical abilities, and mental flexibility.
• Occasionally will move objects up to 20 pounds.
• Occasionally climb stairs, bend, squat, kneel, crouch, and reach above shoulder to access materials and/or documentation.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus to compare and distinguish accounting and administrative data.
• Hearing ability to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking level with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.