Associate Project Development Manager

The Associate Project Development Manager (PDM) primary function is to assist the project team, specifically the lead PDM, by acting as an intermediary between internal departments, supporting initial project setup, communicating and monitoring deadlines and associated deliverables with the team, tracking the project as it moves through the project development plan, facilitating internal communication between departments, and providing document control.

The Associate PDM also supports project development by collecting project data onsite, coordinating with customers, conducting basic analysis and report writing.

There will be 20% North American travel associated with this role.

What do you get to do in this position?


* Project Safety


* Support safety strategy for the project and communicate safety requirements to all project team members and subcontractors.


* Customer Satisfaction


* Collaborate with customer, sales, and lead PDM to identify and understand the customer's mission and vision.


* Support a project strategy that aligns with the customer's mission and vision and operational needs.


* Ensure customer satisfaction by identifying and exceeding project expectations.


* Facilitate the technical communication and presentation in customer project under mentorship of lead PDM.


* Project Planning and Management


* Collaborate with lead PDM to develop schedules/timelines, define intermediate milestones & associated deliverables, and create the project budget.


* Track intermediate milestones & associated deliverables to completion.


* Identify schedule delays and/or probability of missed deadlines and associated corrective action plans.


* Provide project status reports that include schedule, budget and issue analysis.


* Schedule Project Status Reviews and Team Meetings.

Provide meeting minutes for meetings or coordinate with other administrative staff to provide meeting minutes of both internal and external meetings.


* Setup and maintain project collaboration archives.

Provide document control (i.e.

review, finalize/quality control/assemble, distribute & maintain) for all documents that are received from or issued to sources external to Schneider Electric such as client, subcontractors, vendors, etc.


* As required, assist project team members with the distribution of information amongst project team members to enable excellent communication and coordination amongst project team members.


* Manage the Project Debrief (Lessons Learned) function after each deliverable; organize and run the meeting.

Coordinate with PACT resource if assigned.


* Project Development:


* Assist lead PDM as needed (i.e.

prepare documentation for kick off meetings, new project setup, correspondence, etc.).


* Lead effort to collect and organize project specific information from customer and/or jobsite such as utility bills, data loggers, record drawings, etc.


* Arrange customer ...