Project Manager - New York City, NY

Work Flexibility: Field-based

Position summary:  

Project Managers have accountability and authority for achieving a project’s objectives. They direct a multi-disciplinary team aiming to complete a project. Project managers build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers. They have success in closing projects while aligning with business objectives. 

 

Essential duties & responsibilities

Project Lifecycle and Logistics: 

• Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan.  Direct,  manage, monitor, and control project.   Evaluate tradeoffs within project. Communicate changes and adjustments to plan based on product, install or customer delays. 

• Lead forecasting, scheduling, and scoping for large volume projects 

• Directs project team to ensure engineering review documents and all project documents are uploaded to project plan. 

• Lead project through review process and organize task tracking for considerations outside of scope. 

• Sets accurate project timelines while eliminating return trips due to scope changes and scope creep 

• Leads install scoping activities among project teams 

• Lead PLM meetings and identify and outline scope as defined by sales, engineering and customer needs. 

• Responsible for assigning follow-up action to stakeholder groups and holding them accountable for completion. 

• Advise customers and business partners on best possible schedule that meets the needs of the customer and project team. 

• Estimate, acquire and assign project team resources.   Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member.  Provide direct feedback to functional manager on performance reviews.    

• Lead scheduling discussions and consider needs of all parties involved.   

• Directs project team to ensure engineering review documents and project documents are uploaded to the project plan. 

 

Budget and Risk Management: 

• Proactively anticipates risk and lead complex risk mitigated projects 

• Identifies risk and organize resources to support specialized risk mitigation 

• Develop a risk management plan for the project. Identify, analyze and understand project risks, develop and monitor a risk response plan.