Project Manager

The Program Manager directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of customer projects by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate project engineers.

The customer project can be a complete “turnkey program”, a design and build of prototype tooling package or the management of a simultaneous engineering program.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contract Review Review Contract, Quote, Customer purchase order(s) and specifications.
• Project Kick-Off Facilitate Job-Kick Off meeting (M1 milestone)
• Monitoring / Controlling

• CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS Coordinate customer visitation and/or progress review meetings with KUKA departments; Facilitate the transfer of information/material as required by the various departments from the customer; Document Issues / direction using the open issues matrix.
• ENGINEERING Schedule and chair a detailed equipment concept and proposal review meeting with team members from Advance Processing, Mechanical and Controls Engineering; Schedule and facilitate formal design review meetings between the customer’s representatives and KUKA project team; Publish minutes establishing individuals responsible for corrective action when necessary; Assign follow-up responsibilities is to be made concurrently with respective team members; Schedule and facilitate the Engineering/Manufacturing turnover meeting and advise Manufacturing of any customer considerations, requests and specifications.

• SCHEDULING Submit master schedule and reports to the customer in a timely manner; develop and maintain the master schedule, milestone chart and critical path information; advise customer of any schedule changes; Resolve any noncompliance of delivery to the committed dates and reach a to maintain schedule; communicate immediately with management if schedule cannot be maintained and work with Sales, if required, to ensure that the customer is notified in writing of management’s decision on any noncompliance of delivery.
• BUDGETS Provide information to establish a budget; Monitor the work in progress weekly for comparison to the budget to project and ensure profit margin; consult with department managers as necessary to improve project profitability without sacrifice of equipment design and performance integrity or violation of contract intent with the customer; Manage and control engineering change notices (ECN’s) in collaboration with the team members before presenting them to the customer.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• Manufacturing: 5 years (Preferred)
• Controls Engineering: 3 years (Preferred)
• CAD: 3 years (Preferred)
• Mechanical Design: 3 years (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off

This Company Describes Its Culture as:

• Stable — traditional, stable, strong processes
• Detail-oriented — quality and precision-focused
• People-oriented — supportive and fairness-focused