Senior Project Lead | Industrial

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Lead Kick-Off Meetings to confirm project scope, customer deadlines, high-level schedules, labor budget hours, and revenue milestones.
• Collaborate with core functions (Sales, Engineering, Planning, Procurement, Finance, and Manufacturing) to generate project specifications and confirm customer requirements at the Sales Order inception:
  
  • Review Sales Budget Worksheet.
  • Validate Engineering and Production department labor hour budgets.
  • Communicate discrepancies to Sales and Finance.
  • Define key project requirements, including revenue milestones, and relay them to team members.
• Serve as the primary customer contact for project status updates, change order management, milestone tracking, and production schedule deviations.
• Review project plans to identify and resolve:
  
  • Labor load conflicts (under/overload issues).
  • Material lead time conflicts.
• Oversee the Production Build Plan, including:
  
  • Start-to-finish scheduling.
  • Coordination with Production Planning to align with customer needs.
• Take a leadership role in developing project schedules, tasks, completion estimates, specifications, test plans, equipment purchases, and revenue milestones.
• Assist in resource coordination for engineering and production to meet or improve deadlines and budgets.
• Ensure Quality department stays ahead of certification needs for shipments.
• Track Engineering due dates versus completion percentages, resolve conflicts, and improve design-engineering processes.
• Monitor budget hours versus completion percentages, communicating issues with Production and Finance.
• Meet with Finance to review project progress regarding schedule and budget.
• Facilitate production delivery of completed units to the Test department.
• Work with Procurement to adjust material schedules as needed.
• Coordinate witness test dates between customers and the Test department.
• Conduct project close-out meetings to review technical and budget changes.
• Document issues encountered throughout the project and recommend process improvements for future projects.

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