Senior Project Manager
| Company | Rockwell Automation |
|---|---|
| Location | Kitchener, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Relevant Field.
- Legal authorization to work in Canada is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Ability to travel to US immediately.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for identifying project scope, assign individual responsibilities, identify resources needed, and develop a schedule to ensure completion of project and delivery.
- Lead, organize, manage and motivate the project team and develop effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Act as the primary interface with Customer project as well as operations management; build close cooperative relationships with Customers, focused on long term partnerships.
- Manage subcontractors and vendors to ensure on time delivery in line with agreed scope of work within agreed budget.
- Ensure management of the operational steady state phase of our solutions at our Customer to ensure our customers business objectives and service levels are achieved, including management of operational escalations.
- Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
- Conduct project meetings and take responsibility for project tracking and analysis.
- Responsible for and manage cost, cashflow, schedule, scope and risk management. Responsible for overall profit of project as well as customer satisfaction.
- Act as the point person for changes, updates, questions, and issues. Identify and pursue opportunities.
- Identify and communicate vital information to the design team and the company.
- Shape and impact processes;
- Think ahead to raise and examine problems and propose possible solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of related experience.
- Project management experience in a dynamic environment with multi-disciplined technical team members, demonstrating increasing levels of project value and complexity in automated material handling industry.
- Experience managing complex groups of stakeholders, including large customer organizations as well as subcontractors and vendors.
- Leadership capability to create and manage a unified and motivated project team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project and other project management tools.
- Experience within field of automated material handling.
- Experience in managing operations and maintenance of mission critical manufacturing or material handling environments with mechanical, electrical, software and IT components.
- PMP certification/accreditation, experience in Epicor.
- Experience with RaaS, BPO or managed services type of contracts.