Project Engineer - Order Management

As Project Engineer – Order Management, you will be single point of contact to Schneider Electric’s field representatives, responsible for ensuring execution from order opportunity through hand off to services while providing updates based on information from multiple departments  will work collaboratively with both field and plant teams to identify and mitigate all execution risks while supporting margin attainment.

• Proactively and consistently communicate directly with field representatives on a regular basis to inform and mitigate any execution barriers to order fulfillment with full compliance with Customer Project Plan (CPP).
• Coordinate meetings with plant stakeholders to track progress of order fulfillment through scheduling, engineering, procurement, kitting, assembly, test and pack-out of order.
• Identify, mitigate, log and track execution and cost risks throughout duration of the project.
• Proactively work with plant flow controllers as well as engineering to resolve long lead time and/or missing parts via ship shorts, part substitutions and deviations that are acceptable to customer.
• Review customer change orders to define and communicate impact on schedule and cost impact, providing input to pricing team.
• Coordinate any witness testing that is required.

Plant Customer Order Project Manager

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or related field.
• Basic understanding of CPP and how an order progresses through gates at a manufacturing plant: scheduling, approvals, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing and pack-out for shipment.
• In-depth Project Management knowledge & skills.
• Previous experience working with ETO (engineer-to-order) products and familiarity with different types of applications and complexity features related to ETO products, including determining and communicating barriers & risks.
• Experience proactively identifying execution risks to on-time delivery of order throughout fulfillment process of order life cycle.
• Technical knowledge of core gear components such as circuit breakers, electrical components, busking, and structure is required; ideal candidates would have deeper understanding of electrical and mechanical elements of design and build of gear.
• Ability to work with tendering and sales to define standard applications and collaborate with engineering and manufacturing to further standardize the electrical and mechanical BOM.
• Experience with ERP/SAP & Symmetry is required.

For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 86,400 - USD 129,600 per year.

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