Project Manager

Express Employment Professionals - Cincinnati East; McMinnville (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Express Employment Professionals - Cincinnati East is seeking a Project Manager to lead cross-functional projects and ensure delivery on schedule, within budget and to client specifications. The role drives risk assessment, status reporting, and collaboration across customers, vendors, and engineering teams.

A bachelor’s degree and strong leadership are required, with PMP or MBA preferred. Responsibilities include interfacing with stakeholders, managing BOM design and forecasts, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree and strong leadership, communication and time management skills.
• Experience with Earned Value Management, risk management, and contract management is expected.
• PMP certification or MBA is preferred and adds value.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple project activities and develop status reports.
• Assess issues/risks and implement resolutions to meet productivity and quality goals.
• Coordinate with clients, vendors, engineers and managers to align business objectives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time management

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP certification

Master's degree (MBA)

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

Job description

Project Manager

Monday – Friday, 40+ hour work week

Description

The Project Manager accomplishes strategic objectives by overseeing multiple project activities. They will be responsible for developing status reports and for assessing project issues/risks and developing resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. They will also develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with engineers, managers, and customers. The Project Manager serves as the liaison between clients, vendors, employees and executives to align business goals and ensure cohesive relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with customers and Business Development teams to fully understand the scope and requests of the project at hand.
• Excellent leadership skills aligned with the company’s values.
• Work closely with multi-functional teams on bill of materials (BOM) design and budget forecasting. Collaborate with other Project Managers to aid in the development of their projects and completion of deliverables.
• Aid Business Development and engineering staff in analyzing project risks.
• Develop project plans and proposals and manage other project management tools.
• Interface with vendors for outsourced custom and commercially available parts.
• Ensure all deliverables fulfilled are executed safely, professionally and on schedule.
• Adhere to AS9100 standards and regulations as administered by Quality Assurance/Quality Control.
• Collaborate with engineering department personnel to revise, implement and adhere to company policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with engineering personnel to drive the adoption of and compliance with standardized project management and software tools

Basic Qualifications

• Exceptional leadership, communication, time management, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency in understanding and utilizing all written materials available in reference to the project at hand is required.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills and be able to work well with people at all levels within the company as well as customers and vendors.
• This position requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite is required.
• Knowledge of business systems, including Earned Value Management, Risk and Opportunity Management, and contract management such as firm fixed price is required.
• A background in project management, program management, engineering, cost accountmanagement (CAM), and/or business management related functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge and understanding of standard industry project and program managementtools such as Jira is preferred.
• Experience working to AS9100 standards or similar quality management is preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Project is preferred.
• Knowledge of business systems, including Earned Value Management, Risk and OpportunityManagement, and contract management is preferred.
• Experience in the military/aviation sector is highly desirable.
• PMP certification is preferred.
• Master’s level degree such as an MBA is preferred.

Essential Functions of the Job

• Safely lift and carry heavy objects with the help of another person if necessary.
• Ability to work well independently and following strict adherence to deadlines.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position throughout the day alternating sitting andstanding as necessary.
• Perform repetitive movements such as pushing, pulling, bending, some twisting and stooping.
• Perform fine hand manipulation including handling small and large objects.
• Ability to communicate clearly and be positive, polite, and cooperative with co-workers, managers, customers and vendors.

$90,000 - $120,00 DOE

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