Project Manager

Project Manager

Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries. We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Since 1957, we have been known for our high-quality, custom-built control packages, our comprehensive service, and our technological and manufacturing expertise. This expertise assures you of our ability to handle the largest and most complex packages quickly and efficiently.

Panelmatic is seeking a detail-oriented experienced Project Manager. The Project Manager plans and develops the production projects. They need to create and lead the team, monitor project progress, set deadlines, solve issues that arise, manage money, ensure customer satisfaction, and evaluate project performance, including the performance of their team members.

Manage multiple projects from pre-booking to customer final acceptance

Prioritize and direct project activities during the project lifecycle to include planning, scheduling, design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, testing, shipping, and subsequent handoff to customer

Manage and maintain overall responsibility for all details of each assigned project

Ensure assigned projects meet contractual objectives by effectively managing the project cost, and scope

Act as the primary contact between the customer and the organization to maintain existing customer relationships and drive customer satisfaction while meeting business objectives

Provide consultation on proposal development as required

Participate in the internal kick-off meeting from sales / estimating to the organization

Initiate and lead the customer kick-off meeting

Communicate specification requirements to the team to ensure each member is aware of his / her obligations

Allocate project resources based on initial commitments

Actively develop and manage the project with input from various departments to ensure alignment with both internal and external commitments

Conduct project-specific meetings with both in-house personnel and the customer, as needed

Follow document management processes for project documentation to ensure compliance with business, contractual, and document retention requirements / laws

Manage the scope and deliverables from vendors and subcontractors

Validate project terms, conditions, and commercial viability using a quote and standard business practices as the baseline

Participate and present project status at production meetings, as required

Establish and purchase a Bill of Material to be furnished by PBS

Ensure proper updating and reporting of project status to the customer

Prepare or oversee the preparation of contractual invoicing, pursue timely payments from the customer, and authorize payments for major buys to material suppliers and subcontractors

Obtain formal acceptance from the Customer for all contractual deliverables

Authorize and approve all project shipments

Ensure completion of project closeout activities

Is accountable for the commercial success, customer satisfaction, and delivery of the assigned project