
Project Manager-Manufacturing
- Sylacauga, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for driving the completion of key projects ensuring that processes run smoothly, products are delivered on time and that the team's overall resources are used effectively and within budget.
- Establish project plan, set the scope, and budget of the project.
- Mark projects milestones and understand the critical path.
- Calculate dates based on estimates of work and resource allocation.
- Monitor progress and performance against the project plan.
- Evaluate and authorize changes that significantly impact the scope, budget, or timeline of a project.
- Create and execute quality control plan.
- Apply comprehensive technical knowledge and management experience to identify potential risks and establish plan to mitigate those risks while managing cost implications, time constraints, and customer quality standards.
- Ensure that specifications, group recommendations and regional requirements and regulations are implemented as defined in the project plan.
- Ensure effective sustainability management in accordance with policies and local laws and regulations.
- Coordinate project team including both internal and external resources.
- Liaise with other areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project.
- Conduct project meetings and prepare reports to communicate the project status, requirements, structure and decision points within and beyond the project team.
- Manage ongoing relationships with external contractors, vendors and suppliers so that the organization receives satisfactory standards of service.
- Provide work direction, guidance and supervision to the project team.
- Coach and mentor project staff and assist them to solve problems.
- Bachelors degree in related field strongly preferred
- 4 to 10 years of prior relevant experience in engineering/construction and/or project management
- Experience in a manufacturing or mining environment is preferred
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Solid project management and project planning skills, having managed and successfully completed diverse projects on-time and on-budget
- Expertise in change management
- Strong understanding of business process/system redesign
- Strong understanding of financial concepts