Project Manager

 PRIMARY FUNCTION

Accountable for the planning, directing, and execution of local and/or global projects. The Project Manager is also responsible for managing projects and project team activities in the development and launch of new products. 

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate/lead multiple projects of med-high complexity and risk or projects with multiple sub-projects.
• Drive relevant project and project status communications; Monitor progress through project management reviews.
• Manage and work through project launch teams to ensure that the project scope and outcome is achieved.  Accountable for scope change management within the project. Responsible for orchestrating response to customer scope changes in collaboration with the Customer Account Manager and the project team.
• Execute, monitor and control the schedule, cost deliverables, risk management and scope to meet or exceed stakeholder and customer expectations. 
• Responsible for allocating resources and management of the project team. Proactively manages potential conflict and resource constraints.
• Works across business to resolve elevated issues internally and with the customer, ensuring barriers that could impede project progress are removed.
• Coordinates with Customer Account Manager to act as the primary point of customer contact for the project.
• Presents and represents project status to customer and senior leadership.
• Participate in strategic planning/profit planning processes
• Evaluate and implement continuous improvement in the product development process.  May include authoring documents and standards.
• Provide guidance and support to lower level project managers.
• Assure customer development and production product forecasting and Sales Order demand is maintained
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain to assure high quality, competitively priced supplier designed components. Able to assist in overall supplier business assessments (quality, technology, delivery, capacity, etc.)
• May participate in product portfolio management
• Evaluate and drive implementation and maintenance of appropriate project management tools. Maintains safe operations by adhering to safety procedures and regulations.
• Maintains continuity among work shifts by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Documents actions by completing production logs.
• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Additional job duties as assigned