Implementation Project Manager

Description

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We’re a family-owned company under our fourth generation of leadership and have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.

LiftOne invests in people, facilities and innovative technology as part of the essential role we play in supporting our country’s supply chain and enabling critical goods to be delivered to homes and businesses. We’re a privately held company, and pair our scale with a strong foundation in our culture and values. This combination gives us a competitive advantage in the market and helps make us a trailblazing organization that is built to last.

We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential. We offer great benefits, competitive salaries and opportunities for advancement to all our employees.

Be a part of the essential work we do at LiftOne and make a difference for our customers, our community and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with LiftOne.

Summary

The BlueSkye Project Management team is responsible for managing engineered solutions, robotics and automation projects for our customers. The Company values engagement and partnership, and Project Managers who share our passion for building strong relationships with stakeholders and driving successful project outcomes.

As a member of the BlueSkye Automation team the Implementation Project Manager is responsible for, though not limited to, planning and executing project deliverables within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints. Under minimal supervision, this job utilizes deep knowledge of the project requirements to manage large-scale automation and engineering solutions projects for our customers. The Project Manager will work across multiple areas to manage deliverables related to robotics & automation, IT systems, and facilities from project initiation through customer acceptance and handover to aftermarket service.

The Implementation Project Manager forms a strong relationship with the business stakeholders, customers, and key vendors, while partnering to resolve project related issues, providing project status updates and escalating issues and concerns appropriately. To be successful in this role you must be willing and able to partner with business stakeholders, “roll up your sleeves,” and provide value outside of basic project management tasks. Prior project management or change management experience in one or more of the following industries or functions is preferred: robotics & automation, material handling / logistics, manufacturing, warehousing & fulfillment, facilities, or ERP implementation.

Responsibilities include championing project delivery through the project lifecycle, including: 

• Initiation: Align with sales and application/solutions team to identify high-level requirements & all impacted stakeholder groups, and to align the project scope. Plan and organize the project based on established project management methodologies. Lead project Kickoff with internal & external resources and customer.
• Execution:Leads internal and external project teams to safely complete project related work within the established timeline and targets. Coordinate multiple internal/external resources in areas such as transportation/delivery, mechanical/electrical installations (racking, conveyor, workstations, etc.), commissioning of automated systems, integration of software & IT systems, customer training, and go-live & stabilization.
• Budget Management:Manages/tracks actuals, cashflow and forecasted spend.
• Scope:Ensures scope is managed and changes follow the PMO change mgmt. protocols. 
• Quality:Gets the details rights. Ensures project deliverables achieve expected outcomes.
• Risk & Issue Mgmt.:Proactively identify and resolve problems; manage issue/risk processes.
• Communications:Establish comms plans and ensure all stakeholders are informed /engaged. 
• Change Management: Partners with stakeholders to formally integrate change management best practices and frameworks to ensure sustainability of implemented solution.
• Facilitation: Able to bring together a group of people to chart out the best possible course for the project to ensure its success.
• Closure: Ensures customer satisfaction through successful achievement of final acceptance and handover to aftermarket/service. Actively uses, tracks and shares lessons learned within the organization.

Essential Functions

• Organizes project teams by assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements necessary to ensure project is successful.
• Identifies and resolves obstacles to completing project on time and to budget.
• Manages issues, risks, and changes using appropriate and agreed upon processes and tools.
• Performs business analysis and develops formal requirements documentation for scope alignment, developing solutions, and determining resources, time, and costs.
• Coordinates the activities of vendors and outside contractors to ensure they are integrated into the project and that the organization receives satisfactory standards of service.
• Work with solutions team to estimate the costs, resources, and time required to complete each phase of a project and allocate resources and tasks to ensure these targets are met.
• Implements an established project plan and monitors progress and performance against this plan.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.
• Responsible and accountable for delivering large projects on-time, on budget, and meeting functional and quality specifications as the main customer facing contact during the project.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, General Business, Management, or similar studies.
• Preferred: Degree in Business Administration or Engineering.
• Required: Applicant should have 3+ years’ experience in Project Management and leading medium to large projects as the assigned Project Manager accountable for success.
• Applicant should show experience running multiple projects simultaneously to successful completion.
• Applicant should have knowledge of logistics & material handling robotics and automation projects and technologies, for example autonomous mobile robots (AMR), automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), conveyors, sortation, co-bots, etc.
• Requires 2+ years in a client or senior stakeholder facing role, with strong communication skills.
• Applicant should have exposure to and basic understanding of Lean / continuous improvement, Health & Safety, and PMI / Agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to drive projects from concept through completion with minimal guidance.
• Familiarity or experience working with continuous improvement specialists to deliver projects.
• Willingness to travel up to 75% to project sites as necessary.
• Preferred location Charlotte, NC or Atlanta, GA but open to considering remote candidates.

Certifications / Licenses / Registrations

• Preferred for candidate to have one or more of the following certifications:
  • PMI/PMP
  • PMI/ACP
• Driving is an essential function of this position, and a current and valid driver’s license must be always maintained.

Computer Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.).
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel (knowledge of formulas and data analysis).
• Intermediate skills with team productivity tools (SharePoint, Smartsheet, etc.).
• Exposure to or willingness to learn and use Project Management Tools (Monday.com, etc.)

Attributes

• High level of motivation, self-starter, excellent at follow-up, team-player with ability to work with front line employees, middle management, and executives to deliver within defined timelines.
• Proactive and growth mindset with the desire to work in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high growth technology environment.
• Entrepreneurial: If the right process or tool is not available, raise your hand and provide recommendations for a solution.
• Accountable: Does what they say. Honors commitments. Takes action. Follows through.
• Detail Oriented: Gets the details right in all work products and communications.
• Positive & Engaged: Brings a positive attitude to work. Understands that employees succeed together. 
• Principled: Does the right thing. Remains honest and provides constructive feedback.
• Adaptable: Improve always. Seeks to continuously improve the business, the team, and themselves.

Language Skills

• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, presentation).
• Able to communicate understanding and empathy when dealing with customers.

Workplace Requirements

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.

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