Senior Project Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall contract execution.
• Assists/leads, generates and manages program schedules, manages project budget, and helps set resource priorities.
• Attends project kick-off meeting and prepares the project team to ensure objectives are accomplished in accordance with established priorities.
• Issue a schedule for all projects.
• Provides timely updates to customer and project team.
• Conducts regular project meetings with the project team throughout the contract.
• Conducts regular project meetings with the customer, records and distributes information to the team.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting the cost to complete throughout the project.
• Coordinating and assisting in solving technical problems during and at customer site.
• Responsible for machine acceptance and sign-off, along with customer milestone invoicing.
• Works with accounting to help collect/negotiate past due accounts.
• Generates, handles, and tracks all Project Engineering Change Orders.
• ECOs can be generated by other project members. All are submitted to the Project Manager to decide how they are approved, charged to customer, or are otherwise implemented.
• Completes closed order analysis after final acceptance by the customer at customer site, and generates historical data for lessons learned by all departments.
• Aids in preparation of technical proposals with Application Engineering and/or Marketing.
• Identifies new technologies and their possible applications to projects and products.
• Executes projects as per project management standard procedures.
• May be given “special projects” based upon organizational needs.
• May be responsible for managing the generation of standard solutions to be used by Yaskawa Motoman.
• Makes recommendations to RSMs regarding contractual issues.
• Maintains highest level of safety and quality standards.
• Generates and maintains administrative tools to effectively control schedules, margins, utilization, costs, etc., as required.
• Implements lessons learned/continuous improvement program, and assists in providing cross training to the manufacturing teams.
• May coordinate and conduct research and development based upon organizational needs.
• Adheres to all corporate and department ISO policies and procedures to maintain quality standards.
• Guides the project team to design and develop robotic systems to meet customer specifications and/or project requirements.
• May conduct or help design tests to assure success during project validation or verification.
• Facilitates design reviews with customer and/or other departments to ensure sound designs and drawing accuracy.
• Assists in analyzing test data to assure the design meets functional and performance specifications.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree and eight to eleven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum seven years experience as a Project Manager in the robotic systems business.
• Good organizational skills, ability to solve problems, good verbal and written communication skills, and computer literate.
• Strong understanding of robotic systems.
• Working knowledge of industry standards.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to manage several projects at one time.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, conferring with supervisor on unusual matters.
• Some latitude for un-reviewed action or decision.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups and managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Ability to publish technical papers, articles or textbooks.
• Ability to make presentations and have one or more patents.
• Able to do quantitative analysis of complex robotic systems.
• Broad background that shows ability to master new and emerging technologies.
• Proven track record for developing practical, real world solutions for complex solving.
• Work requires individual to devise own methods, to assist with methods used by others, to exercise ingenuity, to analyze situations, and apply judgment required to make decisions of an administrative nature.

Physical Demands

• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, risk of electrical shock, UV exposure, fumes, spark and heat.
• Noisy environment with moderate noise levels.
• Occasional use of/contact with/exposure to various hazardous materials (such as, but not limited to grease, oils, lubricants, paint, thinner, parts cleaner, etc.).