Project Manager - Switchgear
Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM)
Location
Surrey, BC | Canada
Job description
IEM Canada offers access to a full complement of electrical distribution products and services including local design consulting, custom manufacturing, sales, and service support. Established over 70 years ago, we pride ourselves on innovation and our success depends on cultivating the diversity and skills our employees bring to our business.
We are experiencing unprecedented growth and now has an exciting opportunity for a motivated, professional Project Manager - Switchgear to join our team.
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for (but not limited to) the following for our key enterprise clients:
Develop and maintain project schedules:
- Reconciles production schedule to customer demand.
- Execute customer design change requests with production and procurement through system and email updates with ongoing status reports to stakeholders.
- Coordinates with materials team and vendors to ensure production deliverables are met.
- Develop and execute intercept plans for material changes and substitutions with production and procurement through system and email updates with ongoing status reports to stakeholders.
- Supports and identifies opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Documents processes and procedures in alignment with sister-factories
- Works with logistics team to coordinate shipments to customer sites.
- Coordinate with Production, Materials Group, Engineering, Commercial Sales and Shipping to manage and fulfill change orders or back orders at all stages of project fulfillment.
- Maintain, develop where required, tracking tools consistently.
Administering and coordinating customer’s entire cycle will include but not limited to:
- Participate in weekly production meetings to ensure risks to deliverables are identified and escalated.
- Ongoing daily communication regarding capacity, inventory, ship dates, delivery dates pull-ins, pushouts, delivery addresses, contact information, requests for documents, etc.
- Keeping stakeholders appraised of ship dates, changes, etc. and keeping things “on track”
- Coordinate factory material support for field service including updates to tracking tools.
- Experience managing multiple projects at any given time.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, preferably in Construction or Business Administration.
- A minimum of 4 years of experience as a successful Project Manager in a busy/fast paced environment.
- Being flexible and exhibiting an outgoing, service-oriented, and positive personality is a must.
- Strong organizational, written and verbal skills are required.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites are required.
- The ability to prioritize and be effective with many “moving pieces” without supervision is essential.
- A technical background or experience in a manufacturing/sales environment is a plus.
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