Control System Team Lead & Project Manager

We are now looking for a new team member to step into those boots of a Project Manager and a manager! Are you a Project Manager with strong leadership skills and solid experience in the software development or control system development field? If so, please continue reading.

Why join us?

We are a work community of 42 people where technical expertise, engineering spirit, helping others, and flexibility meet. Our team has a diverse background, ranging from professionals from large companies to recent graduates. We share a passion for solving technical challenges, a general interest in technology, strong professional pride, and a genuine goal for high-quality work.

We're all about helping you grow in your role. You'll get continuous support and have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop your skills.

We have a work culture that focuses on collaboration and teamwork. We believe in open communication and always encourage you to share your ideas and perspectives.

We also understand how important work-life balance is. We have a flexible environment that supports both your personal and professional needs. Plus, we're a low-hierarchy, fast-growing company, which means you'll have plenty of opportunities to make an impact and grow with us 🚀

About the role

We currently have two project managers and we are in the process of hiring a third one to the team. This open Project Manager role will focus on our Control System project and in a team that is just now being built. You will be working closely with one of our major Finnish client. The teams consist of embedded developers, automation engineers and a lead architect.

In this role, you will do project management related work 55% of time. 40% of your work tasks will be client interface related, and approximately 5% of the time you will be developing our Project Operations. In this role approximately 50% of the tasks are billable work.

You will also have supervisor responsibilities. This includes being responsible for the day-to-day leadership and development of your project team members. You will support their professional growth, handle 1:1 discussions, and help guide goal setting and performance feedback. Together with the operational manager, you’ll ensure that your team has the right conditions to succeed. 

Project Management

You'll be organizing your team's tasks and making sure we meet our client commitments and making sure your team runs smoothly and tasks are handed logically:

You'll plan the scope, requirements, and progress of projects, working with application developers and technical experts to come up with solutions.
Together with the project team, you'll evaluate workloads and create tasks in Jira.
You'll kick off projects with Kick-Off meetings and wrap them up with Retrospective meetings.

Ensuring the quality of project deliveries and testing practices is also part of your role.
You'll keep an eye on project progress daily and weekly, joining production planning meetings to stay on top of things. You'll also track and maintain project resource forecasts and report on project status and any potential roadblocks to the operational manager.

Client Interface Responsibilities

You'll be the go-to person between the client and your team. This means keeping in touch with clients, understanding their needs, requirements, and priorities. You'll make sure project goals are realistic and that everyone is on the same page about objectives, implementation, and timelines.

You'll help the sales team with proposals, providing solution ideas, project requirements, progress updates, and workload estimates.
Keeping the client updated on the status and progress of projects is key, and you'll be the main point of contact between the client and your team.
You'll convey the client's needs to your team and your team's messages to the client.
You'll anticipate potential issues and inform the client in advance, working with the operational manager to find solutions internally first.
You'll also organize project start and end meetings with the client and hold joint team meetings.

Project Operation Development

You'll work with the COO and other Remion’s project managers to improve our project execution model. This includes joining operational development meetings, sharing your ideas on process improvements, gathering suggestions from your team, and helping to test and implement these suggestions.

Skill to success

To succeed in this role, you need to have excellent communication skills in Finnish and in English, including the ability to translate technical information for both technical and non-technical users, both in writing and verbally. In this role we require strong interpersonal skills. You are able to create and maintain a positive working atmosphere within your team and you can also