Project Manager

Comau, is a worldwide leader in delivering advanced industrial automation products and systems. Its portfolio includes technology and systems for electric, hybrid and traditional vehicle manufacturing, industrial robots, collaborative and wearable robotics, autonomous logistics, dedicated machining centers and interconnected digital services and products able to transmit, elaborate and analyze machine and process data.

At Comau, we globally thrive by building and fostering an equitable and inclusive workforce across all dimensions: gender, sexual diversity, abilities, ethnicity, and generations. We are committed to foster a culture that acknowledges individual uniqueness and fosters creativity, in which employees of diverse backgrounds and with different abilities can feel safe, respected, and included.

The Project Manager leads one or more project teams consisting of cross-functional members. This role involves defining and communicating clear project deliverables and performance targets. The successful candidate will manage all aspects of customer relationships to ensure overall satisfaction with contractual deliverables. Furthermore, this position is responsible for external stakeholder management and working with the team to assure the program's quality, profitability, and timing targets are met.

Duties and Responsibilities

(these are the positions essential duties and is not an all inclusive list)

• Accountable for Profitability, Timing and Quality of multiple related projects (program)
• Evaluate and completely understand contractual deliverables, in content and contractual obligations.
• Scope management: direct Project managers in building the project Work Breakdown Structure, to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
• Change management: develop ECs with clear cost, delivery impact, and expiration date. Negotiate ECs securing customer concurrence, in cost scope and delivery.
• Maintain timely budget updates based on scope of work changes, optimizing project execution improvements.
• Manages Cost Budget and given Cost targets
• Time management (schedule): formulate a detailed execution-timing plan, including critical path timing, mitigation timing plans, with constant updating, improvement, and follow-up.
• Risk management: identify risk and opportunities, and develop risk mitigation plans and actions plans to realize opportunities.
• Managing/coordinating the project team (people assigned to the Project by the other departments)
• Team Building and Coaching: facilitate and develop a productive and cohesive project team, manage conflict resolution.
• Manage all customer communication including but not restricted to, phone conversation note’s meeting minutes, documenting and communicating all appropriate verbal communication, customer runoff documentation, cost information, Engineering Changes (ECs) content cost and schedule impact, customer timing reporting, open issues lists and actions.
• Conduct customer technical reviews, buyoffs.
• Supervision of on-site activities
• Supervision of the procurement process (related to key supplies)
• Pursue Customer satisfaction
• Manages accounts receivable totals related to project and minimize overdues.
• Monitor project activities for compliance to company policies and processes. Manage and maintain master project documentation or project binder in real time.

Knowledge & Skill

• SAP, other ERP system
• PLM system
• Office automation, Microsoft Project
• Decision making methodology
• Cost Control

Behavioral Competencies

• Highlights from FCA Group Leadership model:
• Drive Teamwork and collaboration
• Coach, empower and develop others
• Hold himself accountable
• Drive for discontinuity
• Company Business vision
• Communication
• Business orientation
• Decisiveness
• Results orientation
• Influencing others
• Customer orientation
• Conflict management
• Negotiation
• Creativity
• Multicultural ability
• Flexibility
• Coping with stress

Qualification & Experience

• Good standard of written and spoken English: a second language is highly appreciated
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification from PMI

EHS Roles & Responsibilities

• Maintaining EHS practices.
• Consultation with customer regarding Comau as an EHS implemented organization.
• To provide support to EHS management program

Authorities

• Initial approval authority for signing the gate pass within the department.
• Initial approval authority for Project Purchases