TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

About the role

Technical Project Manager facilitates overall project delivery from receipt of order/assignment through project acceptance. Maintains clear communication with all stakeholders – including customers, end users, and interdisciplinary teams alike. Directs project status updates, accounting directives, and workflow for assigned team-members. Responds to matters of urgency with a level of prioritization and ability to operate under pressure. Escalates issues appropriately to functional managers, directors, and upper management, as needed, where it impacts projects overall delivery and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Makes certain that all project-related documentation is up-to-date, accurate, relevant, and easily understood by all stakeholders.
• Develops and maintains healthy and productive relationships with interdisciplinary teams between both Automation, ESD, customers, and end users.
• Drives assigned personnel to on-time and on-budget projects by developing team goals and removing roadblocks.
• Responds to project-needs with clear communication – timely, accurate, direct, and or empathetic.
• Monitors procurement processes to achieve expected project schedule and project budget.
• Works effortlessly in systems like JobBossE2, Smartsheet, MS Project, and MS Office Suite.
• Creates and gains acceptance on project documentation to better monitor project status and deliverables (Engineering Change Orders, Factory Acceptance, etc.).
• Navigates complex situations and with buy-in, determines a concise plan or path to resolution/execution.
• Carries oneself as a professional and maintains respect amongst peers and customer.
• Based on business-need, assist, support, or perform other duties within defined scope and ability – assuming accountability and responsibility for those assigned projects or programs.
• Adheres to Gosiger's Vision, Mission, and Values as outlined in the Employee Handbook.
• Continuously reviews current process(es) and searches out improvement methods to improve product/process, quality, reduces waste, rework, and unnecessary work that adds no value to the work or process(es).

Qualifications

• Project Management in a complex cross-functional environment.
• Machine Tools or Metal Manufacturing background preferred.
• Mechanical/Technical competency required.
• Strong interest in machines or how-things-work preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Independent technology user with platforms such as Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Smartsheet, and ERP.

Working conditions

• Extensive internal/external stakeholder communication, email, in person, video, text, etc.
• Extensive PC use, significant time at a computer workstation in front of a monitor.
• Frequently in a manufacturing environment, either at Gosiger or in customer facilities.
• Frequent exposure to partially assembled equipment.