Project Manager, Operations Management

PROJECT MANAGER

Fives HPM is actively seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Hebron, Kentucky.

Learn more about our company:

• This Project Manager opportuntiy is located on-site in Hebron, KY full-time Monday through Friday. This is NOT a remote nor hybrid position and would require up to 25% travel to customer locations as needed by the project.

Corporate Group Overview

Fives is an industrial engineering group with a heritage of more than 200 years. Fives designs and delivers machines, process equipment, and production lines for the world's largest industrial companies around the world. We are committed to making industry smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Fives HPM designs, builds, installs, and services advanced machine tools and manufacturing systems used by leading manufacturers worldwide. Our team delivers innovative solutions that maximize productivity, precision, and reliability for customers across aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, and industrial markets.

Business Unit Overview

The High Precision Machines (HPM) Division specializes in world-class machine tool technology, automation systems, and aftermarket services that support customers throughout the lifecycle of their equipment.

The Project Manager is responsible for managing all activities associated with a customer's purchase order, from receipt of the order through final acceptance at the customer's location and final payment.

Serving as the single point of contact, the Project Manager coordinates activities across Fives' cross-functional departments and maintains a direct line of communication between the customer and Fives. This role is responsible for project scheduling, budget management, risk mitigation, milestone tracking, customer communication, installation coordination, acceptance testing, and overall project execution.

The successful candidate will bring strong project management, technical, organizational, and communication skills, along with experience working in a fast-paced advanced manufacturing environment.

• Validate that the customer's purchase order and internal order documentation are consistent and coordinate alignment when required.
• Analyze and evaluate project risks and develop and direct appropriate risk-reduction activities.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive project schedule for each assigned project, from the date of order through product acceptance and final payment.
• Track all project milestone payments.
• Obtain schedule alignment and buy-in from all functional areas involved in the project.
• Manage project budgets and implementation plans throughout the project lifecycle.
• Interface directly with management regarding project status, direction, bottlenecks, risks, and required actions.
• Provide verbal reports and overall project information as needed to support daily operational reviews.
• Serve as the primary point of communication between the customer and Fives.
• Coordinate communications and visits between Fives and subcontractors.
• Maintain project schedules and reporting systems that accurately reflect project progress and provide updates to the customer's Project Manager.
• Coordinate customer run-off activities at Fives Cincinnati.
• Provide comprehensive coordination and follow-up for customer questions, concerns, and needs.
• Track engineering, assembly, run-off, and delivery dates.
• Develop and coordinate recovery plans when projects deviate from established schedules or objectives.
• Review engineering designs related to installation and coordinate required approvals.
• Coordinate the efforts of various Fives divisions and subcontractors during final assembly of project…