Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LiftOne is a family-owned company that provides solutions supporting supply chain operations, including robotics, automation, and material handling. The Implementation Project Manager plans and executes large-scale automation and engineering projects, managing scope, schedule, quality, budget, risks, stakeholders, vendors, and customer handover from initiation through completion.
Responsibilities
- Initiation: Align with sales and application/solutions team to identify high-level requirements & all impacted stakeholder groups, and to align the project scope. Plan and organize the project based on established project management methodologies. Lead project Kickoff with internal & external resources and customer
- Execution: Leads internal and external project teams to safely complete project related work within the established timeline and targets. Coordinate multiple internal/external resources in areas such as transportation/delivery, mechanical/electrical installations (racking, conveyor, workstations, etc.), commissioning of automated systems, integration of software & IT systems, customer training, and go-live & stabilization
- Budget Management: Manages/tracks actuals, cashflow and forecasted spend
- Scope: Ensures scope is managed and changes follow the PMO change mgmt. protocols
- Quality: Gets the details rights. Ensures project deliverables achieve expected outcomes
- Risk & Issue Mgmt.: Proactively identify and resolve problems; manage issue/risk processes
- Communications: Establish comms plans and ensure all stakeholders are informed /engaged
- Change Management: Partners with stakeholders to formally integrate change management best practices and frameworks to ensure sustainability of implemented solution
- Facilitation: Able to bring together a group of people to chart out the best possible course for the project to ensure its success
- Closure: Ensures customer satisfaction through successful achievement of final acceptance and handover to aftermarket/service. Actively uses, tracks and shares lessons learned within the organization
- Organizes project teams by assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements necessary to ensure project is successful
- Identifies and resolves obstacles to completing project on time and to budget
- Manages issues, risks, and changes using appropriate and agreed upon processes and tools
- Performs business analysis and develops formal requirements documentation for scope alignment, developing solutions, and determining resources, time, and costs
- Coordinates the activities of vendors and outside contractors to ensure they are integrated into the project and that the organization receives satisfactory standards of service
- Work with solutions team to estimate the costs, resources, and time required to complete each phase of a project and allocate resources and tasks to ensure these targets are met
- Implements an established project plan and monitors progress and performance against this plan
- Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team
- Responsible and accountable for delivering large projects on-time, on budget, and meeting functional and quality specifications as the main customer facing contact during the project
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, General Business, Management, or similar studies
- Applicant should have 3+ years' experience in Project Management and leading medium to large projects as the assigned Project Manager accountable for success
- Applicant should show experience running multiple projects simultaneously to successful completion
- Applicant should have knowledge of logistics & material handling robotics and automation projects and technologies, for example autonomous mobile robots (AMR), automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), conveyors, sortation, co-bots, etc
- Requires 2+ years in a client or senior stakeholder facing role, with strong communication skills
- Applicant should have exposure to and basic understanding of Lean / continuous improvement, Health & Safety, and PMI / Agile methodologies
- Proven ability to drive projects from concept through completion with minimal guidance
- Familiarity or experience working with continuous improvement specialists to deliver projects
- Willingness to travel up to 75% to project sites as necessary
- Driving is an essential function of this position, and a current and valid driver's license must be always maintained
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.)
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel (knowledge of formulas and data analysis)
- Intermediate skills with team productivity tools (SharePoint, Smartsheet, etc.)
- Exposure to or willingness to learn and use Project Management Tools (Monday.com, etc.)
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, presentation)
- Able to communicate understanding and empathy when dealing with customers
- The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds
- Preferred: Degree in Business Administration or Engineering
- Prior project management or change management experience in one or more of the following industries or functions is preferred: robotics & automation, material handling / logistics, manufacturing, warehousing & fulfillment, facilities, or ERP implementation
- Preferred for candidate to have one or more of the following certifications: PMI/PMP, PMI/ACP
- Preferred location Charlotte, NC or Atlanta, GA but open to considering remote candidates
Benefits
- Open to considering remote candidates; preferred location Charlotte, NC or Atlanta, GA
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