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

As a Project Manager reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end execution of a diverse portfolio of small-scale projects, typically valued at under $1 million. You are responsible for ensuring these projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget, while maintaining high quality standards and client satisfaction.

This role requires a high degree of agility and organization, as you will often manage multiple projects simultaneously, each with different scopes and in different project phases. You will work closely with the Senior Project Manager to align project goals with broader company objectives and provide regular status updates on resource allocation and financial performance.

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. 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 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 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 Management:Proactively identify and resolve problems; manage issue/risk processes.
• Communications:Establish comms plans and ensure all stakeholder are informed /engaged. 
• Change Management: Partners with stakeholders to formally integrate change management best practices and frameworks to ensure sustainability of solution implemented.
• 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 (Each Function tied to projects under $1M)

• Organizes project teams by assigning responsibilities, developing schedules, and determining resource requirements for project success.
• Performs business analysis and drafts formal requirements to align scope, solutions, resources, timelines, and costs.
• Collaborates with solutions teams to estimate project phases and allocates tasks to meet cost and time targets.
• Executes established project plans, monitoring ongoing progress and performance against defined milestones.
• Identifies and coordinates workstreams, as well as and orchestrates collaboration across the project team.
• Monitors the status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing.
• Identifies and resolves obstacles to completing project on time and to budget.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.
• Manages vendors and contractors, ensuring seamless integration and high service standards.
• Delivers projects on time and within budget while serving as the primary client contact for quality and specifications.
• Forecasts project financials and resource utilization while managing revenue models and cost-to-completion projections.
• Identifies resources needed to complete work and collaborates with resource manager(s) to assemble appropriate skills/teams.
• Manages issues, risks, and changes using appropriate and agreed upon processes and tools.
• Provides regular status reports and can communicate to executive leadership.
• Assists with defining and leading Change Management associated with a project.
• Supporting Customer Experience Center through Customer and Partner visits, and center maintenance/cleanliness
• Other duties as assigned.

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 2+ years’ experience in Project Management, Project Engineering, or similar field
• Applicant should show experience running multiple projects simultaneously to successful completion.
• Application should have experience with 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.
• Proven ability to drive projects from concept through completion with minimal guidance.
• Familiarity or experience working with continuous improvement specialists to deliver projects.
• Willing to travel up to 50% to project sites as necessary.
• Must be located in, or willing to relocate to, Atlanta GA
• Previous Start-Up experience preferred

Computer Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.).
• Expert in Microsoft Excel (deep knowledge of formulas and data analysis).
• Intermediate skills with team productivity tools (SharePoint, Smartsheet, etc.).
• Intermediate skills in process mapping tools (Visio or equivalent)
• Project Management Tools

Attributes

• Proactive and growth mindset with the desire to work in a collaborative environment.
• 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.
• 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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