Project Manager - Elma Electronic

Elma Electronic Inc. is a global leader and industry innovator in advanced embedded computing solutions. Our products and integrated platforms are based on a set of modular building blocks such as, precision hardware components, rotary switches, and embedded computing boards.

As a global organization, we stay close to our customers and partners worldwide with sales, design, and manufacturing facilities across three continents.

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We have an excellent opportunity for an accomplished Project Manager to join our team in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Our ideal candidate will play a lead role in organizing, planning, and executing projects while working within restraints like budgets and schedules. The PM will lead entire teams, define project goals, communicate with stakeholders, and see a project through to its closure.

Responsibilities:

Their responsibilities at a high level include:

• Defining the scope of the project
• Staying on schedule
• Planning a project’s cost and sticking to a budget
• Managing project resources (including teams and workers)
• Documenting the progress of the project
• Communicating with stakeholders
• Assessing risks
• Troubleshooting

In more detail, a strong project manager will effectively lead projects as follows:

• Based on the requirements, objectives, deliverables, and proposed solution, develop a detailed project plan schedule with the identified task dependencies and critical path
• Identify, estimate, plan, and document the resources required to achieve the project objectives and deliverables
• Ensure coordination of activity, driving of progress, and tracking status against project plans, timelines, and changing priorities from initiation through closeout
• Evaluate change requests and manage the associated changes to project scope, time, and cost
• Coordinate directly and indirectly with project staff to ensure successful completion of projects, including directing, supervising, supporting and coordinating the project team members
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel and ensure accountability for task completion
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and continually manage those expectations
• Define the project scope, success criteria, objectives, and deliverables that are aligned with business strategy and objectives
• Report project status on a regular basis and assist in preparation of steering committee presentations as required
• Identify and manage project risks and track/manage resolution of project issues
• Balance and manage the project constraints of scope, cost, time, resources, risk, and quality
• Manage key stakeholder expectations, concerns, and needs throughout the project
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
• Lead post implementation reviews
• Partner with the cross functional project teams to build and implement a change management plan
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Cross function leadership and integration
• Excellent verbal and written communication with team members, stakeholders, vendors, and customers
• Highly organized – able to prioritize and multitask to keep a portfolio of projects running smoothly
• Critical thinking – analyzing and evaluating situations to help prevent issues before they happen
• A great attitude and sense of humor – having a positive approach to the projects and problems can ease stress and energize the project team members

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with studies in project management is a plus
• PMP and/or CAPM certifications are a plus
• A minimum of 5-7 years leading large, complex projects preferably in a manufacturing environment

Elma offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and benefits package.

Elma Electronic Inc. is proud of our diversity and equal employment opportunity practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.