Manufacturing Project Manager - Estimator
Current• Own the Quote to Cash (QTC) lifecycle of manufacturing projects which involves the cross-functional coordination of sales, account management, legal, supply chain, production, finance, and accounts receivable• Collaborate with Sales & Business Development and prepare timely, competitive and accurate project estimates and proposals in response to opportunity requirements• Manage and maintain the sales pipeline to track opportunity stage and status• Ensure project quoted scope and customer issued POs are in alignment, establish project baseline expectations; Any deviations driven by customer needs can be communicated and agreed on through our change order process• Conduct coordination meetings in alignment with stage-gate process best practices to ensure organizational readiness of new project and/or products• Perform sales handover meeting with engineering to review project scope and initial timelines• Coordinate schedules with engineering to ensure submittal arrangement drawings and submittal packs are completed on time with project deliverables• Professionally communicate project timelines and expectations across critical resource groups and establish accountability for delivery of their work products to meet the established milestone dates• Coordinate with Supply Chain for awareness of potential project needs of long-lead time components; provide technical guidance and procurement assistance as needed• Collaborate with Operations to manage and maintain a unified manufacturing production schedule of manufacturing shop capacity; keep Sales & Business Development apprised of build slot availability• Develop, and maintain, effective internal and external business relationships to ensure project success• Conduct cross-functional project post-mortems to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements and create recommendations reports to drive continuous improvement of project lifecycle management
