Sales & Project Manager

About the role

The Sales & Project Manager is a high-impact, client-facing leader responsible for growing profitable business, developing trusted customer relationships, and guiding complex capital equipment and systems integration projects from opportunity development through installation and start-up.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop, retain, and grow strategic accounts while identifying and qualifying new business opportunities aligned with GENESYS capabilities and profitability objectives.

• Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, vendors, subcontractors, and internal teams through clear communication, follow-through, technical credibility, and sound commercial judgment.

• Led development of project scope, budget, schedule, commercial assumptions, risk profile, and execution strategy for custom automation, capital equipment, and systems integration opportunities.

• Translate customer needs and production challenges into practical, value-based solutions that improve safety, efficiency, quality, uptime, and return on investment.

• Provide leadership on both technical and commercial matters, balancing customer requirements, company goals, project risk, and long-term account value.

• Operate with autonomy and accountability, balancing office, customer site, and field responsibilities to maximize ROI for GENESYS and ensure successful project outcomes.

Project Management & Execution

• Manage assigned projects from concept through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, start-up, closeout, and lessons learned.

• Create, maintain, and communicate project schedules, milestones, budgets, forecasts, change orders, and financial projections with timely updates to senior leadership.

• Lead customer interface meetings, construction coordination meetings, design reviews, schedule reviews, and project status discussions before and during installation activities.

• Cookordination engineering, fabrication, manufacturing, subcontractors, vendors, field crews, and customer resources to ensure alignment on scope, schedule, cost, quality, and safety.

• Proactively identify, escalate, and mitigate project risks, including scope gaps, schedule constraints, field conflicts, technical issues, cost exposure, and customer-driven changes.

• Support field execution during critical windows, including availability during off-peak hours, nights, weekends, or holidays when required for project success.

• Facilitate project closeout, lessons-learned meetings, and process improvement actions that strengthen future estimates, execution plans, customer experience, and profitability.

Leadership, Safety, & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and develop team members by setting clear expectations, removing roadblocks, encouraging accountability, and modeling professional ownership.

• Create a shared sense of purpose among project teams, customers, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.

• Demonstrate a visible and consistent commitment to safety; hold yourself and others accountable to GENESYS and customer safety standards.

• Participate in design reviews, SPAs, JHAs, field audits, incident reporting, and corrective action follow-up to protect people, property, and the environment.

• Promote a collaborative, high-trust culture grounded in integrity, accountability, open communication, continuous improvement, and respect for people.