KSB
Project Manager - Engineered Business
Richmond, VA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
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About the role
- This position requires an individual who is interested in connecting and communicating with internal and external stakeholders, including KSB Factories from around the world.
- Position Primary Role and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the KSB primary point of contact to the customer and internal KSB stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop project schedules specific to each customer order, including factory/sub-supplier procurement, production, testing, and delivery of equipment.
- Project Management - Establish, document, and communicate effective project structuring, monitoring/tracking performance against milestones and deadlines, while keeping projections and expectations current and conveyed.
- Time Management - Reliable attendance; manages time for the day-to-day responsibilities in adherence to associated initiative requirements, completing assignments in allotted time. Effectively prioritizes tasks to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Professionalism - Leads by example. Deals with pressure and conflict in a positive manner. Demonstrates self-confidence and an optimistic attitude. Demonstrates productive use of time, per assignments and organizational needs.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree required in related discipline, preferably business management or engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in successful project and contract management in a related industry or with industrial products and/or services.
- Broad experience in business operations (i.e., demonstrated knowledge of activities across multiple functions), preferably with an international organization.
- Working knowledge of Lean Enterprise, Lean Project Management, Critical Chain, and Theory of Constraints concepts
- Broad experience in quality management, manufacturing, and systems thinking.
- Manage project documentation schedules, working with KSB stakeholders, global factories, and sub-suppliers to obtain all required documentation.
- serves point of contact role for customer representative and, when required, works through the supply chain colleagues to interact with vendors associated with respective orders.
- Must be a resourceful and proactive problem solver.
- Project management skills with ability to support multiple projects simultaneously and balance priorities through planning, execution, reporting, and effective controls.
- Demonstrated experience working with multi-site operations and deploying and managing project fulfillment stages through others.
- Project Manage Professional (PMP) certification
- Leadership and Change management Experience
- Lean Enterprise and Human Centered Design Thinking - Understand principles and strategies for identifying process problems and solutions by prioritizing the perspective of internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative solutions, services and systems.
Nice to have
- Preferred Experience
Skills
- Active Learning - Able to learn quickly and independently, on the job. Must be a resourceful and proactive problem solver.
- Intuition - Identifies and addresses potential problems before they become issues.
- Safety - Demonstrates personal responsibility in adherence to Company safety guidelines.
Compensation
- This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship.
Benefits
- Active Learning - Able to learn quickly and independently, on the job.
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