Project Manager

About DT Engineering:

We provide innovative tooling and automation solutions to optimize production processes, increase efficiency, and reduce operational costs. With a customer-centric approach, DT Engineering is committed to serving the pharmaceutical, medical device, cosmetic, HVAC, appliance, and consumer product industries, by delivering innovative solutions to meeting their unique requirements.

About the Project Manager Role:

As the project manager, your job is to plan, budget, oversee, and document all aspects of the specific project(s) employing a detailed and nuanced approach. Essentially, you coordinate and harmonize people and processes, using sound financial acumen, to ensure projects are within scope, delivered on time, produce the desired results, and are good customer experience.  You represent a positive and spirited image for DT Engineering as the customer facing focal point of contact.  You work under minimal direction and guidance.

Key (Essential) Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Project Managers are responsible and fully accountable for delivering clear, precise guidance to all team members involved in any project. They must thoroughly review and understand Master Agreements and the Terms & Conditions associated with Purchase Orders before conducting any kick-off meetings and maintain this awareness throughout the entire project lifecycle. This ensures alignment between contractual obligations and project execution, supporting successful outcomes and minimizing risk.
• Stays abreast of advances in technology and in changes in the industries being served.
• Stays alert to changing customer needs, changes in industry trends, standards, and requirements.
• Works with the leadership team to define manpower requirements and for balancing evolving workloads and resource requirements.
• Leads assigned functional team members on the project team.
• Creates a positive and motivational team atmosphere. Employs a consistent, and infectious good attitude and demeanor with all parties.
• Prepares and reviews budgets and schedules for projects 
• Establish project integration meetings for all assigned projects; well prepared and thought out.
• Creates, monitors, and reports project level schedules, actual/projected financials, and time standards. Utilizing approved MRP and financial reports.
• Has the ultimate financial responsibility of the overall project, and the responsibility of leading and managing the efforts of functional personnel to complete the project tasks.
• Advises Director of FAS/TDS of any performance, schedule, or manning problems
• Establishes a thorough understanding of the functional requirements of the concept, the customer specifications/considerations, the contract, and the quoted proposal.
• Participates in all design reviews on assigned projects and assures timely reviews take place, that all appropriate inputs are covered prior to and at the design reviews. Verifies that design review corrective actions have been completed and that all required design outputs have been completed.
• Participates in concurrent engineering efforts, soliciting value added input from team members and related staff, for new improved or more cost-effective methods.
• Reviews with staff and project teams any variances from original design, preventing all unnecessary design effort or drawing changes on assigned projects.
• Complies with and assures team compliance with all appropriate standards and procedures. Assures that external sources, engineering support, or equipment complies with project and contract specifications, proposal, and internal procedures and standards.
• Responsible for monitoring and identifying customer or internally driven scope changes and takes the appropriate action to ensure compliance by all parties.
• Responsible for monitoring project actuals (labor and material) against project budgets. The PM will report these findings during the PSM meeting.
• Assures compliance with SOW, proposal, and customer specifications.
• Coordinates and confirms the completion of tasks assigned to the team.
• Assures all final documentation is up to date and change order closure issues are resolved.
• Gathers and documents post-mortem assessments to identify areas for project improvements.
• It is the responsibility of all employees to be aware of DT Engineering’s quality policy, objectives, guiding principles and departmental work instructions relative to their position. All employees have a role in quality, and the performance of each employee directly impacts the financial goals of DT Engineering and customer satisfaction.

Additional (Non-Essential) Responsibilities:

• Travels to customer (and supplier) locations as required and as necessary.  
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrate financial acumen appropriate for this position.
• Follows and complies with company guiding principles and employee handbook requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business discipline preferred, project management certification preferred, and five years or more of project management experience.
• Industrial automation background.
• Demonstrated capability to operate and perform in other areas of the business on a lateral and promotional basis.
• Experience and familiarity with; high tech, high speed electro-mechanical machines and controls; PLC and PC controls, robotics, motion controls, servos, manufacturing and assembly practices, CAD systems; project management tools.
• Demonstrated knowledge of advances in technology and changes in the industries being served.
• Results oriented, self-starter, and motivational team leader.
• Highly customer-oriented with professional appearance and representation.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Ability to work in sitting and standing positions.
• Manual dexterity to manipulate computer keyboard and tools as required.
• Near visual acuity to interface with computer screen and read drawings and prints.
• Mobility to move throughout a manufacturing shop and to travel via commercial transportation
• Occasional push, pull, reach, stoop, bend at the waist, kneel, crouch and lifting of up to 25 pounds.
• Tolerance to significant levels of stress.