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Project Manager

Burlington, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to the following:

  • Initiates and integrates project across all functional groups including Customer's team.
  • Identifies key project stakeholders and manages project stakeholder's expectations within the project business case constrains.
  • Establishes communication channels and distributes key project information to provide a communication bridge between the project team and the Customer.
  • Collects project requirements, develops scope definition, and establishes high level project goals and objectives for the project team in alignment with project contract documents and the Customer.
  • Develops project cost and schedule baseline ensuring commitments from functional groups.
  • Tracks and manages project critical path activities and deliverables.
  • Provides project leadership and manages project execution.
  • Ensure project quality objectives are met by developing quality plan and performing quality checks (e.g. specification approvals, Factory & Site acceptance equipment tests).
  • Reports project progress to the Senior Management.
  • Monitors project risk and recommends mitigation strategies. Undertakes initiatives to exploit opportunities to increase project value to the company and the Customer.
  • Monitors and manages project changes and where appropriate issues Change Notices for Customers Approval.
  • Approves project invoicing according to the milestone payment schedule and work completed.
  • Monitors project cash flow and spending.
  • Initiates, manages, or delegates management of subcontracts and subcontracted deliverables.
  • Collaborates with Functional Managers to meet project resource requirements while ensuring optimum resource allocation across multiple PMO projects is achieved.
  • Performs project close out according to the contractual acceptance criteria.
  • Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of this position.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES :

  • Excellent and experienced communicator at all levels of organization.
  • Well, organized with positive approach to Company's standards and departmental policies.
  • Excellent documentation maintenance skills.
  • Relentless drive for continuous improvement and cost savings.
  • Hand-on approach to problem solving with find the root cause and "dig deep" analysis attitude.
  • Practices rigorous objectivity & cultivates balanced optimism.
  • Knowledge seeker and unbiased facts source with coaching skills.
  • Strong user of MS Excel.
  • Good, working knowledge of MS Project.
  • Good, working knowledge of AutoCAD.
  • Good grasp of ERP and Purchasing systems.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE :

  • Technical College or University Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering a must.
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a Project Manager in a custom automation industry.
  • Training in Project Management a strong asset.
  • Training in Quality a strong asset.
  • P.Eng. or PMP required.

About Shape Technologies Group

Machinery Manufacturing
501-1000

At Shape Technologies Group (SHAPE) we’re devoted to a single goal: delivering innovative manufacturing process solutions that propel our customers to success. SHAPE is a strategic ecosystem of companies that provides an extensive portfolio of manufacturing process solutions to customers around the world. The core technology of SHAPE was founded in high pressure waterjet cutting, cleaning, and surface preparation. Today, SHAPE’s offerings span automated assembly, material handling, software, process control, robotic motion systems, ultrahigh-pressure cutting and cleaning, aftermarket parts, and extensive support.

The SHAPE difference can be seen in our people. With industry leading technologists, manufacturing experts, and skilled service professionals, SHAPE team members listen to our customers to anticipate their needs and deliver technical know-how that transforms our customers’ visions into reality.

Spanning 100 countries and a broad array of industries, SHAPE is expanding its reach through a growing number of direct and indirect channels. By partnering with our customers, we become integral to the successful design and manufacture of their next-generation products. We continually scour the globe for new, industry-leading technologies to add to our differentiated portfolio of offerings and grow our customer base. Our vision is to become the pre-eminent advanced process solutions partner handling the highly engineered products of tomorrow.