Senior Project Manager

• Responsible for the overall contract execution.
• Responsible for assisting/leading, generating and managing program schedules, managing project budget and helping set resource priorities.
• Attend project kick-off meeting and prepare the project team to ensure that objectives are accomplished in accordance with established priorities.
• Issue a schedule for all projects. Provide timely updates to customer and project team.
• Conduct regular project meetings with the project team throughout the contract.
• Conduct regular project meetings with the customer, record and distribute information to the team.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting the cost to complete throughout the project.
• Coordinating and assisting in solving technical problems during and at customer site.
• Responsible for machine acceptance and sign-off, along with customer milestone invoicing.
• Work with accounting to help collect/negotiate past due accounts.
• Generate, handle, and track all Project Engineering Change Orders. ECOs can be generated by other project members. All are submitted to the Project Manager to decide how they are approved, charged to customer, or are otherwise implemented.
• Complete closed order analysis after final acceptance by the customer at customer site, and generate historical data for lessons learned by all departments.
• Assist in preparation of technical proposals with Application Engineering and/or Marketing.
• Identifies new technologies and their possible applications to projects and products.
• Responsible to execute projects as per project management standard procedures.
• May be given special projects based upon organizational needs.
• May be responsible for managing the generation of standard solutions to be used by Yaskawa Motoman.
• Make recommendations to RSMs regarding contractual issues.
• Maintain highest level of safety and quality standards.
• Generate and maintain administrative tools to effectively control schedules, margins, utilization, costs, etc., as required.
• Implement lessons learned/continuous improvement program, and assist in providing cross training to the manufacturing teams.
• May coordinate and conduct research and development based upon organizational needs.
• Adhere to all corporate and department ISO policies and procedures to maintain quality standards.
• Guide the project team to design and develop robotic systems to meet customer specifications and/or project requirements.
• May conduct or help design tests to assure success during project validation or verification.
• Facilitate design reviews with customer and/or other departments to ensure sound designs and drawing accuracy.
• Assist in analyzing test data to assure the design meets functional and performance specifications.
• Some travel required. Must have valid driver’s license and full coverage automobile insurance.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Masters Degree and eight to eleven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Minimum seven years experience as a Project Manager in the robotic systems business.

Good organizational skills, ability to solve problems, good verbal and written communication skills, and computer literate. Has a strong understanding of robotic systems. Requires a working knowledge of industry standards. Possesses strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Must be able to manage several…