Project Manager - Korean Bilingual

Company Overview

The Company is a renowned global manufacturer and supplier of electrical equipment and products, aims to solidify its brand presence in the North American market.

Position Overview

The Project Manager (PM) will be responsible for driving a variety of projects for LS Electric America Inc for our Power Transformer and Switchgear business. As a project manager you will be responsible for understanding contracted scope of work, allocated budget, and defining and allocating required resources prior to equipment delivery and working with the factory team and sub-contractor for both transportation and installation. This role is essential to making sure we understand the risk, develop mitigations, and our projects come in on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Understand the client’s current needs and anticipate future requirements.
• Review project scope, schedules, and project documents for accuracy and requirements.
• Responsible daily/weekly progress reporting, and all manner of communications with contractors, subcontractors, and clients.
• Leading customer meetings (remote or at customer site as required)
• Attend weekly meetings, provide high-level status updates, and lead Engineering, and Project Management activities.
• Control internal production schedule collaborating with the relevant factory depts.
• Daily communication with the HQ sales, engineering, and/or business support depts.
• Facilitate resolution of warranty claims as they arise on the project.
• Leading periodic operational review meetings with team member to maintain schedule and project risk
• Deliver projects consistently at or below budget
• Provide lessons learned feedback to Sales on selective complicated projects
• Optimally communicate project expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion.
• Coordinate the resolution of sophisticated issues and questions with respectively qualified Project Engineers.
• Support Finance team on invoicing and coordination of invoicing
• Develop risk mitigation plans to preempt potential problems through the application of concepts, techniques, knowledge, processes and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in electrical engineering
• 3 years of direct project management experience
• Very strong project management skills
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 20%
• Fluency in English and Korean, both written and spoken, is required.
• Ability to identify contractual risks and work to mitigate exposure
• Experience working with Power Transformer or Switchgear business
• Experience with SAP is preferred
• High level understanding for logistic, especially for the ocean and inland transportation