Senior Project Manager
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Acted as the primary customer point of contact from sales hand-off through site acceptance testing; managed projects ranging from $500k to $5M in revenue. Responsible for overall project success and financial performance with targeted margins.• Managed project execution through Engineering, Manufacturing, Assembly, Testing, Quality Assurance, Shipping, Installation, Production Startup, and Finance in order to exceed customer expectations.• Managed and oversaw project budgets, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost control throughout the project lifecycle.• Generated a positive and productive working relationship with customers, team members, and vendors with routine communications, and clearly setting achievable expectations.• Specified installation requirements, OEM equipment, solicited bids, and selected vendors for mechanical and electrical installation contractors for the equipment to be installed.• Ensured timely invoicing at project milestones and assisted with resolving payment delays through outreach to customer.• Developed and managed detailed project schedules using available resources, project requirements, and delivery milestone dates; maintained master project schedule.• Developed and maintained ACAD equipment layout drawings.• Conducted review meetings of machinal and electrical designs to assure all stakeholders were aligned.• Hosted Factory Acceptance Testing with customer to demonstrate system met customer specification and objectives.• Developed Safety Risk Assessment for all robotic systems as required by the ANSI RIA.• Conducted onsite project kick-off meetings as well as site surveys of customer’s facility to verify building details such as columns, drains, ceiling, and any other existing equipment point of connections.• Assessed risk and shortfalls and implemented plans to mitigate the risk to the customer and the company.• Conducted 360 wrap-up meetings with internal team members to generate lessons learned action items.