Manager, Project Management

Duties

• Manages the execution of the B&W Chanute project management team.
• Directs, plans and monitors project management resources for project completion, assessing manpower and material requirements.
• Conducts regular project review meetings to follow contract performance status including both financial, schedule and contingency/risk/opportunity management.
• Assists in managing disputes/changes with customers when it must be elevated above the Project Manager level.
• Develops strategies for project margin improvement through order changes and reduction in costs.
• Collaborates with sales and operations departments to obtain information needed to engineer and manufacture orders.
• Provides support to sales through advisory input to proposals and presentations.
• Works with sales department in negotiation of terms and conditions, order changes and potential warranty or back charge items.
• Communicates with operations department to understand manufacturing schedules to fulfill order commitments.
• Affords supervision for the project management, bill of material and drafting functions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of Project Management in the boiler new equipment or aftermarket areas
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experienced with B&W Project Status Reports (PSR) or equivalent
• Knowledge of commercial contracts
• Demonstrated leadership abilities
• Ability to understand project issues and how to identify them early
• Ability to influence people who are not in direct chain of command