What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at ValvTechnologies?
Position: Project Manager
Schedule: On-site
Position Overview:
Serves as a single point of contact between our internal customers and Operations & Supply Chain (the Supply side). Responsible for customer orders from quote to shipment.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own and manage customer sales orders from contract award through final delivery and payment.
- Develop and adjust project plans to align with customer expectations and internal capabilities.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality), manage project related constraints to ensure project execution.
- Communicate directly with customers, industry managers, and internal teams to resolve any delivery, quality, or payment issues.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Develops and manages appropriate project budget and schedule in accordance with time and cost estimates in order to support sales goals/objectives
- Creates and communicates project schedules taking into consideration engineering capacity, manufacturing capacity, internal manufacturing readiness, and OEM supplier deliveries
Core Qualifications:
- A 4-year technical or business degree from a respected college
- Minimum 3 years of total professional experience, with at least 2 years in project management within a manufacturing or engineered products environment.
- Experience in managing projects for technical or engineered products
- Medium to long-term project duration (9 months to 2 years )
- Project commercial value include those up to several million dollars
- Multi-stakeholder project experience – end users, engineering firms, distributors, etc.
- Customer point of contact responsibility
- Successful cross-functional collaboration experience (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality); comfortable on the shop floor
- Experience managing multiple projects at different phases simultaneously
- Experience managing projects with international customers, destinations, engineering firms
- Clear leadership capability
- Strong communication skills – verbal, written, listening, questioning, presentations
- Self-starter; drive and tenacity; open-mindedness; adaptability. Capability to act as a change agent
- Excel and MRP fluency