Specialist, Project Execution

Schneider Electric; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Customer Project Manager to lead customer projects from order to completion, coordinating internal and external communications and ensuring timely delivery. This hybrid role requires managing timelines, risks, and stakeholder relationships across diverse environments, while maintaining quality and safety standards.

You will drive project outcomes, support continuous improvement, and partner with distributors, manufacturing plants, and sales

Qualifications

• Experience managing a high volume of customer product orders and complex projects as liaison between distributors, plants, and sales to ensure timely communication, issue resolution, order fulfillment, and customer satisfaction.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with confidence working independently under general guidance
• Collaborative approach with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams
• Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to compliance, quality, and safety
• Adaptability and resilience in managing dynamic, fast-paced project environments

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of customer projects, ensuring on-time delivery with full compliance to quality standards
• Drive project timelines, assess risks, and identify opportunities to enhance project outcomes and customer satisfaction
• Foster strong stakeholder and customer relationships through proactive communication and collaboration

Skills

Prioritization

Analytical thinking

Communication

Customer orientation

Decision making

Digital literacy

Project management

Operational efficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

Senior Customer Project Manager

Join us as a Senior Customer Project Manager, where you'll lead customer projects from order conversion to completion. You'll manage internal and external communication and project timelines while ensuring quality delivery and building lasting customer relationships across diverse environments.

This role is hyrbrid, two days per week in any of the following locations:

Irvine, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Andover, St. Louis, Foxboro, or Louisville - You must currently live there or be willing to relocate there on your own.

What will you do?

• Lead end-to-end execution of customer projects, ensuring on-time delivery with full compliance to quality standards
• Drive project timelines, assess risks, and identify opportunities to enhance project outcomes and customer satisfaction
• Foster strong stakeholder and customer relationships through proactive communication and collaboration

What are the key skills we are looking for?

• Prioritization - balancing competing demands across multiple projects and stakeholders
• Analytical thinking - assessing project data to make informed decisions and identify improvement areas
• Communication - keeping internal and external teams and customers aligned throughout the project lifecycle
• Customer orientation - ensuring project delivery meets customer expectations and builds trust
• Decision making - independently determining methods, tactics, and processes under general guidance
• Digital literacy - leveraging tools and platforms to track progress and report outcomes
• Project management - coordinating schedules, resources, and deliverables across the full lifecycle of a project
• Operational efficiency - streamlining execution to reduce costs while maintaining quality

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Experience managing a high volume of customer product orders and complex projects while serving as the primary liaison between distributors, manufacturing plants, and sales teams to ensure timely communication, issue resolution, order fulfillment, and customer satisfaction.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with confidence working independently under general guidance
• Collaborative approach with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams
• Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to compliance, quality, and safety
• Adaptability and resilience in managing dynamic, fast-paced project environments

What's in it for me?

• High-visibility role where your work directly impacts customer success and business outcomes
• Collaborative culture that supports continuous learning and professional development
• Opportunities to guide diverse teams and expand your project leadership capabilities
• Supportive environment that values continuous improvement and professional growth

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in project coordination, project management, customer operations, order management, sales operations, customer service, or related fields
• Experience supporting customer-facing projects in manufacturing, electrical distribution, construction, industrial, or engineering environments
• Experience working with distributors, contractors, manufacturing plants, or supply chain operations
• Familiarity with project lifecycle management from order receipt through delivery

What's in it for me?

• Lead meaningful projects that directly impact customer success and organizational performance
• Work with diverse teams across technologies and geographies in a collaborative environment
• Grow your career with opportunities to expand your expertise and leadership capabilities
• Be part of a team that values quality, innovation, and continuous improvement

At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career? When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

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Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

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