Sonny's Enterprises is the world's largest manufacturer of conveyorized car wash equipment, parts, and supplies. We are the industry leader, recognized and awarded by the International Car Wash Association for innovating new technologies to advance the industry with products proudly designed and built in the USA. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We embrace change and the opportunity it produces to maximize the potential of our most valuable resource — our PEOPLE! We invite you to explore our opportunities and grow your career with us.
The Engineering Project Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing engineering projects from charter approval through production release and APQP approval. This role involves implementing and adhering to gateway processes, utilizing Smartsheet for efficient project tracking, and managing project capital and costs to ensure successful and timely project delivery.
Responsibilities- Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, goals, schedules, and deliverables.
- Utilize knowledge of gateway processes to ensure project stages are defined, reviewed, and approved at appropriate gateways.
- Implement project tracking tools, such as Smartsheets, to monitor progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Work closely with stakeholders to develop accurate cost estimates for projects, considering materials, labor, and other relevant factors.
- Create and manage project budgets, monitoring expenses and ensuring adherence to financial constraints.
- Collaborate with department heads and stakeholders to allocate resources effectively, considering skillsets, availability, and project requirements.
- Optimize resource utilization to ensure efficient project delivery while maintaining a balanced workload.
- Identify potential risks that could impact project timelines, costs, or quality.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies and action plans to address identified risks and uncertainties.
- Facilitate regular project status meetings and ensure effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and management.
- Prepare and present project reports, dashboards, and updates to communicate project progress, issues, and achievements.
- Implement quality assurance processes to meet industry standards and ensure project deliverables meet the required specifications.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies, industry regulations, and safety standards throughout the project lifecycle.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, managing their expectations and ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Act as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, addressing inquiries and providing updates on project progress.
- Effectively manage the timely completion of tasks by the cross functional project team and inter-departmental stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of projects that meet customer requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Project Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, goals, schedules, and deliverables. Utilize knowledge of gateway processes to ensure project stages are defined, reviewed, and approved at appropriate gateways. Implement project tracking tools, such as MS Planner, to monitor progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Cost Estimation and Budget Management: Work closely with stakeholders to develop accurate cost estimates for projects, considering materials, labor, and other relevant factors. Create and manage project budgets, monitoring expenses and ensuring adherence to financial constraints.
- Resource Allocation and Management: Collaborate with department heads and stakeholders to allocate resources effectively, considering skillsets, availability, and project requirements. Optimize resource utilization to ensure efficient project delivery while maintaining a balanced workload.
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Identify potential risks that could impact project timelines, costs, or quality. Develop risk mitigation strategies and action plans to address identified risks and uncertainties.
- Communication and Reporting: Facilitate regular project status meetings and ensure effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and management. Prepare and present project reports, dashboards, and updates to communicate project progress, issues, and achievements.
- Quality Assurance and Compliance: Implement quality assurance processes to meet industry standards and ensure project deliverables meet the required specifications. Ensure compliance with organizational policies, industry regulations, and safety standards throughout the project lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, managing their expectations and ensuring alignment with project goals. Act as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, addressing inquiries and providing updates on project progress. Effectively manage the timely completion of tasks by the cross functional project team and inter-departmental stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of projects that meet customer requirements.
- Communication Skills - The ability to write clearly, succinctly and understandably. The ability to effectively communicate and relate well to all kinds of people. Treats all people with respect, courtesy and consideration; respects differences in the attitudes and perspectives of others; listens observes and strives to gain understanding of others.
- Professionalism – demonstrates appropriate businesslike behavior when dealing with coworkers, vendors and customers. Understands and adheres to the values of honesty and integrity.
- Personal Accountability - A measure of the capacity to be answerable for personal actions. Accepts personal responsibility for the consequences of personal actions; avoids placing unnecessary blame on others.
- Teamwork - The ability to work effectively and productively with others. Shares responsibility with team members for successes and failures.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Safety - Practices safe work habits and encourages others to do the same. Identifies ways to improve the safety of the work environment. Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures to promote effective safety operations.
- Dependability-the individual is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction and solicits feedback to improve performance.
WORKING CONDITIONS / EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE
Working Conditions: Majority will be an inside office environment.
Physical Demands: Regularly required to stand or sit and move about the facility.
Education and Formal Training:
- Bachelor’s degree Engineering preferred.
- Project Management (PM) certification a plus.
Experience:
- 5–7 years of Project Management experience, specifically in the engineering domain.
- Proficiency in utilizing MS Sheets, MS project, or similar project tracking tools.
- Familiarity with gateway processes and their application in project management.
- Strong understanding of project capital and cost management principles.
- Ecellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
The pay for this position is dependent upon experience, between $115,384.50 and $155,925.00.
We offer a 100% employer-paid medical plan for eligible employees. In addition, the Company provides employer-paid Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage.
Employees and their eligible family members may also elect from a variety of voluntary, employee-paid benefit options, including additional medical plan choices, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), Long-Term Disability (LTD), life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a Company matching contribution.
EEO Statement
Equal Opportunity Employer
Sonny’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of project management experience specifically in the engineering domain
- Proficiency using MS Sheets, MS Project, or similar project tracking tools
- Familiarity with gateway processes and their application in project management
- Strong understanding of project capital and cost management principles
- Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Project Management certification
What We Do
Sonny's OneWash - Complete Car Wash Solution This is a new era in commercial car washing, where the customer experience feeds your bottom line. To deliver top value, you need new parts, new equipment, better chemistry, superior technology, and more training – and Sonny’s is leading the way. With Sonny’s OneWash™, we offer the industry’s only complete suite of car wash business solutions. It’s everything you need to succeed. All from one partner. Sonny's is the world's largest manufacturer of conveyorized car wash equipment, parts, and supplies. Sonny's eight lines of business – consulting, college, equipment, vacuums, controls, marketing, chemistry, and parts combine to create OneWash, the industry's first and only complete car wash management suite designed to promote the growth of car wash businesses everywhere. With full tunnel systems in each of the 50 United States, and equipment in countries all over the world, Sonny's equipment delivers millions of clean, dry, shiny cars each year, around the globe. Sonny's legacy began in 1949 when founder, Sonny Fazio, built his first full-serve car wash. Upon retiring, he began manufacturing replacement parts and eventually equipment for his son's chain of 12 washes spanning three states. Engineered by a car wash operator for his family, Sonny manufactured equipment to do one thing — help his sons make more money washing cars. Soon, word got out and Sonny was flooded with orders for his reliable equipment that washed better, cost less, and produced a clean, dry, shiny car faster with less hassle and expense. That was the beginning of Sonny's The Car Wash Factory. Today, Sonny's is the industry leader, recognized and awarded by the International Car Wash Association for innovating new technologies to advance the industry with products proudly designed and built in the USA! We also have a full line of OEM parts for Hanna, Peco, PDQ, Belanger, Macneil, Ryko, and other car wash equipment manufacturers.
