ENGEL Machinery North America has a job opportunity for an Automation Project Manager in our Automation Department. ENGEL provides excellent benefits including health, dental and vision insurance all upon first day of hire (no waiting period and very robust coverage at an affordable price), 401k with match, over 3 weeks• PTO, employer paid life insurance, long and short-term disability, and an employee-centric environment. POSITION INFORMATION Job Summary: Maintains, tracks, and organizes projects for custom automation department. Creates and maintains project schedules. Coordinates with internal and external vendors and service providers to ensure timely execution of all project phases.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Creates project schedules and tracks against the key milestones. Investigates when critical dates are missed and work with the operations team to ID correction and update schedule.
- Effectively utilize resource pool for realistic schedules
- Leads conversations with suppliers, with technical support from operations.
- Contribute to project kickoff and weekly production meetings
- Maintain regular communication paths with customer, internal automation team, and other ENGEL teams as needed. Via status meetings with notes, LOPs, schedule updates.
- Act as technical representative for FATs including tracking performance and organizing post-test summary
- Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned by a supervisor.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS Educational/Training Requirement: - Minimum 2 year Associates Degree in technical field
Experience: - Minimum four (4) years• experience working as a project manager on technical projects similar to Automation and Robotic Systems
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: - Highly proficient in Microsoft Office with good document control skills
- Knowledge of ProjectWorx, MS Project or equivalent project planning software
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and exercise sound professional judgment
- Good time management skills • ability to handle several projects at once
- Proactive mindset to anticipate customer/team needs, address issues and escalate promptly
- Experience with risk management and change management
- Experience with Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint preferred
- Familiar with Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology preferred
- Prior experience in a technical role preferred
OTHER REQUIREMENTS Travel Requirements: - Travel approximately 1%-5% of the time to customer or vender site
- Must possess a valid driver's license
- Must possess a valid passport
- Ability to travel internationally
