Project Manager – Energy & Power Solutions
Rittal LLC has built a strong tradition of innovation and takes pride in a progressive approach to engineering. We design and manufacture the world’s leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks, and accessories, including high efficiency, high-density power management, and climate control systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications.
As the Project Manager you will direct/manage/supervise the delivery of projects/programs within the energy and power business unit. Develop and enforce project delivery standards and establish the organization's approach to the full life cycle of projects, from planning, initiation, resourcing, execution, monitoring, control, and completion. Oversee project teams, drive resources, budgets, and schedules. Track and provide project status and audit reports; manage the risk, issue, and change resolution process and work with other leaders to take corrective action, as necessary. Work across teams to define project priorities and implementation opportunities and challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Leading project teams, with clear guidelines, tasks, and milestones, while assuring compliance to a standardized process and identifying and implementing best practices
- Collaborating with the staff, establish a standardized PM process including standardized tracking and reporting, escalation, change manage, management and issue resolution.
- Overseeing the development of project plan documents in relation to scope, budget, schedule, and risk management.
- Monitoring project implementation to ensure best practices in cost control, resource efficiency, risk management and health, safety, and the environment.
- Identifying, analyzing, and addressing project risks, with the regular sharing of lessons learned
- Oversees contract negotiation and claims with customers, in collaboration with the Supply Chain and Legal functions as required to critical projects.
- Building strong relationships with customers and stakeholders, and achieving overall project deliverables and compliance with contract requirements
- Possessing tact, empathy, diplomacy, and efficiency in communicating effectively, and requires decision making ability with ability to work independently and on own initiative.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with customers and management.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and customers in a timely and clear fashion.
- Set and continually manage project team expectations.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, required documentation and presentations for executive team. Document the quality concerns of customers and provide follow-up communication.
- Drive on-time performance based on customer requirement consistent with production availability.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering and/or business-related field is preferred.
- General knowledge of electrical systems and applications.
- Minimum of 4-6 years of relevant experience
- A PMP certification preferred.
- Project Management experience in a manufacturing environment is highly desired.
- Proven capacity to coordinate and lead remote teams, working in different geographic locations.
- Demonstrated experience in management of project scope, cost, schedules, and vendors/subcontractors.
- Knowledge and experience in MS Project, and other PM tools
What we offer is an opportunity to be a part of a team that increases the optimization and efficiency of our Global Company. Our goal is to create a safe work environment that our customers can trust us to deliver quality products. We enjoy all the benefits of an international company quickly growing in the US.
Rittal LLC is proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. EEO/M/F/Vets/Disabled If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may contact the company’s Human Resources Department. This option reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.
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Rittal North America LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and was founded in Springfield, Ohio in 1982. Its parent company, Rittal, was started in Germany in 1961 and has grown to include offices in more than 70 countries and manufacturing facilities on 4 continents.
Rittal North America LLC's U.S. Headquarters, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois, is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a customer training center, including expanded teaching resources, product testing facilities and a large-scale product showroom where customers can have a hands-on experience with the entire Rittal System. Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing center of excellence facility in Urbana, Ohio, consists of more than a half-million square feet of space to ensure that customers' production and stocking requirements are fully met. Lastly, Rittal North America LLC's distribution centers in Georgia, Texas and Nevada enable Rittal to meet the needs of its customers quickly and reliably.
Situated on a 105-acre campus, Rittal North America LLC's manufacturing facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and processes, and contains in-house engineering and modification services, as well as the longest non-automotive paint line in North America, stretching more than 3 miles within the confines of the factory. The on-site warehouse is outfitted with an 8-story Automated Storage & Retrieval System.
Rittal manufactures the world's leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications. Rittal's off-the-shelf standard, modified standard and custom-engineered products are known throughout the world as high quality, affordable solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application - from single enclosures to comprehensive systems.
Rittal is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.
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