Project Manager

Parker Hannifin; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin’s Electronic Controls & Motion Division seeks a Project Manager to lead cross‑functional projects, including NPD and PSI, ensuring quality, cost, and schedule adherence. You will coordinate internal teams and external suppliers, drive master scheduling, and report progress to leadership.

Ideal candidates bring a PMP or equivalent, 5+ years in engineering/manufacturing, and an engineering degree is an asset.

Qualifications

• PMP designation or relevant project management training/experience
• Minimum five years in engineering or manufacturing environments
• Engineering degree in related discipline is an asset
• Strong written and verbal communication and listening skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-functional work
• Well-developed conflict resolution and negotiation skills
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project; SAP PS knowledge is a plus

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage cross-functional project teams to meet quality, cost, and schedule targets
• Create and track master Gantt and ensure milestones are met
• Coordinate internal divisions and external suppliers for project needs
• Support project reporting including status and issues tracking
• Maintain project documentation for auditable traceability
• Validate test plans (DVP&R) and ensure product conformance
• Present regular gate reviews to management and interface with customers

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Conflict resolution

Education

Engineering degree or related discipline

Tools

SAP PS module

Job description

Org Marketing Statement

This opportunity is specific to Parker's Electronic Controls & Motion Division (ECM), an exciting and fast-paced environment providing technologies that create and control motion to customers across a wide range of applications and industries. This critical position allows you to become part of a team that aligns products and worldwide engineering and manufacturing capabilities to build our presence in a growing electrification space. ECM brings together decades of controls and electronics design and manufacturing expertise with significant growth opportunities presented by our mobile electrification and industrial efforts.

Org Marketing Statement

This opportunity is specific to Parker's Electronic Controls & Motion Division (ECM), an exciting and fast-paced environment providing technologies that create and control motion to customers across a wide range of applications and industries. This critical position allows you to become part of a team that aligns products and worldwide engineering and manufacturing capabilities to build our presence in a growing electrification space. ECM brings together decades of controls and electronics design and manufacturing expertise with significant growth opportunities presented by our mobile electrification and industrial efforts.

Position Summary

The Project Manager will help define, plan, initiate, execute, control and close projects. Responsibilities will include directing and maximizing the efforts of cross-disciplinary project teams to produce specific products or results within the technical, cost, schedule and quality specifications. Projects may include NPD (New Product Development) and PSI (Product Sustainability and Improvement) projects and initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage a cross-functional/cross-departmental Project Team to ensure that the assigned project successfully meets its quality, cost (NRE and DTC) and schedule requirements


• Create and track the master Gantt for the entire program; ensure all deliverables and milestones are met


• Align internal divisions and outside suppliers to ensure that support for master timing, test and validation plans, prototype needs and constraints is agreed to and met


• Provide support for report generation on projects (both those managed directly and in support of other Project Managers)


• Create and track the open issues list for the entire program


• Ensure that all applicable project documentation is produced and maintained to produce a valid and auditable paper trail on how the project developed


• Create, establish and ensure that the system and component validation test plans (DVP&R) are met and that the end product meets or exceeds the requirement


• Produce status, tracking and flash reports on projects being run


• Manage staff assigned to the project team within the context of being the Project Team Leader


• Present regular gate reviews to management on projects being managed


• Interface with customers and sales staff on assigned projects

Qualifications

Qualifications

• PMP designation or a relevant combination of technical training and project management experience/training


• A minimum of five years’ experience in an engineering or manufacturing environment


• Degree in engineering in related discipline is an asset


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and excellent listening skills


• Excellent interpersonal skills; proven ability to perform effectively with people at all levels of a cross-functional development team


• Well-developed conflict resolution and negotiation skills


• Proficiency in the use of personal computers and automated tools, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and MS Project


• Experience using SAP, especially the PS module would be an asset

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient. With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation. Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future. Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond. By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability. As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.