Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Primary customer interface/contact on all assigned projects.
• Overall project performance throughout project life cycle: order receipt through warranty; specific focus on contract performance, technical compliance, and customer satisfaction; drive project execution per planned schedule, holding project team and customer accountable for project performance.
• Cook up order execution through stakeholder management of Engineering, Quality Assurance, Procurement, Production, Shipping and Finance towards achieving on-time delivery, contract compliance and targeted profitability.
• Coordinate, drive order execution through stakeholder management of Engineering, Quality Assurance, Procurement, Production, Shipping and Finance towards achieving on-time delivery, contract compliance and targeted profitability.
• Establish a positive and productive working relationship with both domestic and international customers and their project teams through face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, and routine communication.
• Manage and facilitate prompt, meaningful communications with the customer to resolve technical and commercial issues, convey project progress on a routine basis, and negotiate commercial contract modifications when called for.
• Cook up project team involvement and participation at customer’s pre-award meetings, kick-off meetings, lessons-learned meetings, and progress meetings.
• Ensure timely invoicing at project milestones and assist when needed with resolving payment delays through customer outreach and engagement.
• Manage and communicate project revenues, cost, and gross margin forecasts, as well as identify and proactively manage risks throughout project life cycle.
• Review vendor/inter-company bids for engineered/buyout products against scope, quality, performance, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Cook up project team documentation submittals and disposition process towards securing required customer approvals.
• Cook up and coordinate project-level planning actions to facilitate the needs of customer, third party and regulatory inspections of finished, or in-process goods for inspection purposes.

  Critical Competencies for Success

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology (BSME or BSMET), or similar engineering or technical degree from an accredited four-year college or university required.
  • Two to three years’ work experience in the valve and/or process control industry, or in a related engineering and manufacturing industry required.
  • Experience in managing a multi-disciplined project team: engineering, quality control, procurement, manufacturing, cost estimating, delivery/billing, and configuration management.
  • Knowledge of order management/administration, contracts, US Contract Law, and commercial negotiations best practices.
  • Experience working with custom-engineered, manufactured products for the nuclear valve/ process control industry.
  • Effective communication skills (both oral and written).
  • General knowledge of manufacturing processes, techniques, practices.
  • General knowledge of NDE operations, techniques, and practices.
  • Relevant experience working with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
  • Proficient in business and project management software (MS Office, MS Project Professional, MS SharePoint).
  • Proficient in customer relations management (CRM) type software, such as Salesforce®, or equivalent.
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally approximately 10 to 15% of time; international customers will require off-normal hour interface.