Senior Project Manager

Vertiv Group Corporation; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv Group Corporation in Greenville, SC seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead manufacturing projects ranging from moderate to significantly complex. You will coordinate procurement, engineering, production, and quality activities to ensure delivery on time and within budget.

This role emphasizes risk management, earned value control, and close collaboration with customers and partners to meet demanding specifications and schedules.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience in manufacturing project management.
• Mechanical/manufacturing background desirable.
• Ability to integrate engineering concepts with PM systems and processes.
• Advanced knowledge of cost and forecasting, including EV and change control.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• PMP certification is a plus but not required.
• Travel up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and drive project management activities for moderate to complex projects.
• Review and guide execution of innovative solutions to technical issues.
• Lead cross-functional teams from procurement to design and production.
• Identify gaps and risks, develop resolutions to keep project on track.
• Develop cost, scope, and schedule framework for project elements.
• Escalate issues to PM leadership as needed and influence decisions.
• Support financial planning, monitoring, and reporting for projects.
• Coordinate communications with customers, partners, and internal teams.
• Guide resource usage and engineering/production releases to meet quality and on-time delivery.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluates, determines, and drives project management activities to manage one or more moderate to significantly complex Projects.
• Provides expertise to review and drive execution of innovative solutions to technical issues. Delegates task to team members to execute to manage project accordingly.
• Manages team executing work to ensure successful project execution. Whichincludes procurement, engineering, production, quality, etc.
• Identify gaps and risks within the project. Developing resolutions to mediate those risks and gaps.
• Develops cost, scope, and schedule framework for projects elements; manages and intervenes as necessary to ensure delivery to cost, scope, and schedule agreements.
• To notify the Program Management Manager and upper-level leadership of escalations that will require significant adjustments that may impact the project negatively.
• Provides primary support and guidance to the financial planning, monitoring, scheduling, and preparation and release of technical/schedule information required for project planning.
• Leads multiple aspects of moderate to complex financial planning, monitoring, reporting, scheduling, and communication required for project planning and control.
• Performs some technical, administrative, and logistical liaison roles with company, customers, sales, design, contractors, and regulatory agencies for one or more projects. May function as lead for one or more elements.
• Defines and establishes engineering/production/project definitions, maintenance of schedules, and engineering releases associated with fulfilling project on time, on cost, on quality and with customer satisfaction.
• Negotiates, evaluates, determines, and executes engineering project management activities to manage one or more significant, complex projects or components.
• Leads, directs, influences and exercises extensive technical and operational knowledge and expertise to evaluate and resolve significant technical issues pertinent for key project(s).
• Acts as primary and first point of contact for technical, administrative, and logistical issues with customers and outside project partners.
• Leads multiple aspects of financial planning, monitoring, reporting, scheduling, and preparation of technical/schedule information required for project planning, as well as cost out projects.
• Leads teams and matrix managing day-to-day project requirements. Represents project manager as delegated for some management responsibilities. Assists the selection and development of technical project employees.
• Guides the effective use of project resources including personnel, tools, and methods.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7 years’ experience of manufacturing project management experience
• Mechanical / manufacturing background highly desirable.
• Ability to integrate complex engineering and production concepts and information with project management systems and processes.
• Advanced knowledge of business concepts and principles associated with project cost and forecasting including Earned Value, Baseline Change Control.
• Proven excellence in effective communication, interactive and presentation skills
• Desired knowledge of IMS engineering or manufacturing.
• Desired PMP certification is a plus but is not required.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering discipline (or equivalent of education and experience)

TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Up to 20%