Project Manager- Manufacturing
Principal Manufacturing Corporation · Broadview, IL · 1 mo ago
Project ManagementFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No placeholder.
We need to parse the posting.
First, job title: Project Manager. Not to repeat as heading.
We need sections:
- About the role: likely the introductory paragraph: "Principal Manufacturing is seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Broadview, IL. As a leader in fineblanking, conventional stamping and plastic injection molding, Principal Manufacturing sets itself above the competition. The Project Manager will coordinate and manage new projects to ensure on time completion and production launch. Manage various departments' activities to prioritize actions that minimize risk to on time launch of new products. Manage inter-departmental meetings (APQP, tooling design reviews, etc.) and report projects progress."
That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties. The posting has "Major Duties And Responsibilities" then a list of bullet-like sentences. Also "Additional Responsibilities:" list. We'll combine into a
- list.
- Requirements: maybe "Required Skill/Knowledge:" and "Education Level / Required Certification:" and "Problem Solving:"? Actually "Problem Solving:" is more description of challenges; could be part of Requirements or maybe separate. But we can treat as Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Preferred Skills/ Knowledge:"? Actually that is preferred skills. Could be Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe combine required and preferred? But we need to follow instruction: Use sections only when posting has real specific content. We can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Required Skills/Knowledge (maybe as Requirements), Preferred Skills/Knowledge (as Qualifications), Benefits.
We need to avoid Pay and Schedule sections because not mentioned.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. There's none.
We need to preserve all substantive info.
Let's extract content.
Intro paragraph: "Principal Manufacturing is seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Broadview, IL. As a leader in fineblanking, conventional stamping and plastic injection molding, Principal Manufacturing sets itself above the competition. The Project Manager will coordinate and manage new projects to ensure on time completion and production launch. Manage various departments' activities to prioritize actions that minimize risk to on time launch of new products. Manage inter-departmental meetings (APQP, tooling design reviews, etc.) and report projects progress."
Now Major Duties And Responsibilities list:
- Develop and manage project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients and staff.
- Monitor, document, and report project progress to ensure activities are proceeding to plan and budget and implement necessary adjustments to meet deadlines.
- Consulting with the Director of Engineering to seek guidance and input during key phases of each project.
- Initiate and maintain project iteration tasks throughout the project cycle.
- Organize and coordinate new project activities to cross-functional team members to ensure timing and expectations are understood.
- Communicate project status and updates to stakeholders regularly
- Design, Build, Lessons Learned and CI implementation.
- Execute the full project management life cycle from PO acceptance to production hand-off for multiple projects simultaneously, including New Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement.
- Proactively identify and manage plans for project risks, issues and opportunities.
- Communicate project status regarding schedule, cost, deliverables, risks, issues and opportunities internally and externally.
Additional Responsibilities (list of some, but not all responsibilities):
- Review key process for accuracy and "quality of event" (Control plans, PFMEA, inspection instructions, process routings as compared to quoted routings, etc.)
- Support prototype activities.
Now Required Skill/Knowledge:
- Strong MS Project skills
- Ability to multitask.
- Effective computer skills including Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Recognized project management qualification.
- Demonstrable experience as a junior project manager or similar.
- In-depth understanding of prevailing project management methods.
- Planning, with the capacity to identify and minimize risks.
- Familiarity with tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance.
- Ability to lead meetings, stay focused on agenda and document results.
Preferred Skills/ Knowledge:
- Automotive experience in new product development / launch (a plus)
- Engineering and quality background with exposure to various manufacturing processes (stamping, molding, machining, etc. (a plus)
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints and GD&T.
Education Level / Required Certification:
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
- Project management experience a plus
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Computer proficiency
Problem Solving:
- Able to creatively help customers and PMC support timing reductions as required.
Internal/External Contacts:
- Internal contacts include sales, engineering, tooling, production, maintenance, scheduling, production and shipping departments.
- External contacts include suppliers, customers on specific assigned programs.
Additional Information:
- Ability to encourage positive work environment.
- Must be able to multi-task under high pressure environment.
- Based on need, may be asked to perform other duties as required by PMC.
- Self-motivated; ability to work without direct supervision.
Benefits:
- We offer paid holidays, PTO, 401K matching and medical benefits.
Now we need to map to sections.
We have About the role (intro). Responsibilities (major duties + additional). Requirements (maybe required skill/knowledge + education level?). Qualifications (preferred skills?). Skills (maybe combine required and preferred? But we already used them). Could also have a Skills section for required skills. But we need to avoid duplication.
We could structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Preferred Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but we should use those headings when appropriate. It says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". So we can use any of those headings if content matches. We could also add other headings not in list? Probably better to stick to those. Thus we need to map content to those headings. - About the role: intro. - Responsibilities: duties. - Requirements: required skill/knowledge + education level? Could also include problem solving? But problem solving is more description of challenges; maybe could go under Requirements as well. - Qualifications: preferred skills/knowledge. - Skills: maybe we could separate required skills vs preferred? But we already used Requirements and Qualifications. Skills could be something like "Ability to lead meetings, stay focused on agenda and document results" etc. But that's already in required. Might be redundant. Better to follow: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (required skill/knowledge + education), Qualifications (preferred skills), Benefits. We'll not include Skills separate. Now we need to ensure we don't include placeholder like "a plus" etc. That's okay; it's specific content. We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all bullet points. Let's craft HTML. We'll output:
About the role
Principal Manufacturing is seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Broadview, IL. As a leader in fineblanking, conventional stamping and plastic injection molding, Principal Manufacturing sets itself above the competition. The Project Manager will coordinate and manage new projects to ensure on time completion and production launch. Manage various departments' activities to prioritize actions that minimize risk to on time launch of new products. Manage inter-departmental meetings (APQP, tooling design reviews, etc.) and report projects progress.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients and staff.
- Monitor, document, and report project progress to ensure activities are proceeding to plan and budget and implement necessary adjustments to meet deadlines.
- Consulting with the Director of Engineering to seek guidance and input during key phases of each project.
- Initiate and maintain project iteration tasks throughout the project cycle.
- Organize and coordinate new project activities to cross-functional team members to ensure timing and expectations are understood.
- Communicate project status and updates to stakeholders regularly
- Design, Build, Lessons Learned and CI implementation.
- Execute the full project management life cycle from PO acceptance to production hand-off for multiple projects simultaneously, including New Product Introduction & Continuous Improvement.
- Proactively identify and manage plans for project risks, issues and opportunities.
- Communicate project status regarding schedule, cost, deliverables, risks, issues and opportunities internally and externally.
- Review key process for accuracy and "quality of event" (Control plans, PFMEA, inspection instructions, process routings as compared to quoted routings, etc.)
- Support prototype activities.
Requirements
- Strong MS Project skills
- Ability to multitask.
- Effective computer skills including Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Recognized project management qualification.
- Demonstrable experience as a junior project manager or similar.
- In-depth understanding of prevailing project management methods.
- Planning, with the capacity to identify and minimize risks.
- Familiarity with tools and metrics needed to evaluate project performance.
- Ability to lead meetings, stay focused on agenda and document results.
- Bachelor's degree in business or a related field
- Project management experience a plus
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Computer proficiency
- Able to creatively help customers and PMC support timing reductions as required.
Qualifications
- Automotive experience in new product development / launch (a plus)
- Engineering and quality background with exposure to various manufacturing processes (stamping, molding, machining, etc. (a plus)
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints and GD&T.
Benefits
- Paid holidays
- PTO
- 401K matching
- Medical benefits
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings (e.g.) meaning those are examples; we could still add other headings