Pro Spot International, Inc. is a fast-growing, industry-leading design and manufacturing corporation that manufactures high-quality welding equipment used primarily in the automotive collision repair industry. Our company is seeking an immediate hire for the position of Project Manager. Our headquarters are located in Carlsbad, CA.
Job Summary
The Project Manager is responsible for leading projects that span across multiple departments and require collaboration from cross-functional partners to drive to closure. At any given time, the PM may be responsible for multiple short-term and long-term projects, so the ability to prioritize and maintain organization is key. The PM is part of the Operations team reporting to the Director of Operations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• The primary role of the Project Manager is to manage specific cross-functional projects executed within Manufacturing Operations and Engineering.
• This includes but is not limited to creating and tracking schedules, budgets, costs, performance targets, resource plans, and general planning activities for team deliverables.
• The PM is responsible for ensuring that the projects are managed, assessing risk and mitigation strategies, highlighting issues and managing their solutions, and coordinating the various development activities to ensure good cross-program communication.
• Manages the development and implementation process of a company's products and services
• Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery, including planning and directing schedules and monitoring budget/spending. Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the project, i.e., product on schedule and within budget constraints
• Proactively communicates issues and manages the solution paths
• Ensures good cross-functional communication (through effective meetings, email, and other means) to ensure coordination between Engineering functional areas and other departments
• Ensures proper documentation is completed for each development activity and that adequate documentation exists.
• Performs lessons learned reviews on key projects and drives necessary changes in the project management process
• Creates presentations as required to support internal and external program reviews
• Performs all job functions in a safe manner following all established safety guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications | Competencies | Success Factors

• Requires a Bachelors in Business Administration or related discipline and five or more years of progressively complex experience in project management. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Excellent MS Office application and Google Work experience
• Must have strong leadership skills, independent and unbiased, capable of quickly gaining trust and loyalty and inspiring/coaching others toward achievements while developing positive and effective working relationships with superiors, subordinates, peers, customers, and others
• Must demonstrate an extensive understanding of project management processes and procedures within a manufacturing environment, to include planning and scheduling methods, and budget management as well as the ability to organize, schedule, and coordinate workloads to meet established milestones and budgets.
• Manufacturing experience is a must-have. The PM must have experience in the metal fabrication and electromechanical assembly processes also to include working with the engineering department on prototype and new product development phases of product realization.

Competencies

• Proven ability to lead a team and bring team members together
• Must be able to read and interpret manufacturing and engineering data, information, and documents
• Team player
• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads and deadlines
• Result driven; Demonstrates ownership and accountability
• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with manager, co-workers, and customer
• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines
• Strong negotiation skills during interactions with suppliers and internal organizations
• Ability to initiate, influence, and steer without formal authority
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to work on multiple fast-paced project threads simultaneously
• Clear and efficient written and verbal communication skills in English