Project Manager

About the role

The Project Manager manages projects and customer relationships at Ceres Technologies to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality projects for domestic and international customers. Project manager tracks and reports schedule/budget information and elevate instances where a project is in jeopardy of not obtaining company profit expectations. Project manager conducts pre-post analysis of the project and feedback lessons learned to appropriate departments.

Responsibilities

• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by project team members.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties and vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Develops project plan, monitor & track progress.
• Assists and helps in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders in ensuring technical feasibility, also set deadlines, assign responsibilities.
• Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members work; provide performance input to project team members’ functional management.
• Proactively identify and manage changes to scope/schedule/budget and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget, and timeline
• Supports project managers and projects managed by other colleagues and assists in various improvement initiatives.
• Analyze and manage risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
• Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties.
• Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.
• Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.
• Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project.
• Create value-added project documentation and help with maintenance of project templates.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years working in project management
• Minimum 5 years in product or equipment management
• Strong knowledge of MRP/ERP (preferably Encompix) with a solid understanding of discrete manufacturing, bills of material, and supply chain operations
• Project Management methodologies
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications – PowerPoint and Excel.
• New product development skills
• Strong planning skills
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills
• Mastery of Microsoft office 365

Benefits

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Pay

Salary: $80k-$90K/year

Schedule

This role requires you to work on-site at our office in Saugerties, NY.