Plant Project Manager

As Plant Project Manager, you will be single point of contact to Front Office, responsible for ensuring execution from order opportunity thru hand off to services while providing updates based on information from multiple departments at plant.You will work collaboratively with both Front and Back Office to identify and mitigate all execution risks while supporting margin attainment.

What will you do?
• Proactively and consistently communicate directly with Front Office on regular basis to inform and mitigate any execution barriers to order fulfillment with full compliance with CPP.
• Coordinate meetings with plant stakeholders to track progress of order fulfillment thru scheduling, engineering, procurement, kitting, assembly, test and pack-out of order.
• Identify, mitigate, log and track execution and cost risks throughout duration of project.
• Proactively work with plant flow controllers as well as engineering to resolve long lead time and or missing parts via ship shorts, part substitutions and deviations that are acceptable to customer.
• Review customer change orders to define and communicate impact on schedule and cost impact, providing input to pricing team.
• Coordinate any witness testing that is required.

What qualifications will make you successful?

• Bachelor's Degree preferred, not required.

Equivalent experience and skills can be substituted for education
• Basic understanding of CPP as well as how order progresses thru gates at manufacturing plant:scheduling, approvals, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing and pack- out for shipment.
• Previous experience working with ETO (engineer to order) products and familiarity with different types of applications and complexity features related to ETO products, including determining and communicating barriers & risks.
• Experience pro-actively identifying execution risks to on-time delivery of order throughout fulfillment process of order life cycle.
• Basic familiarity of core gear components such as circuit breakers, electrical components, bussing, and structure are required.Ideal candidates would have deeper understanding of electrical and mechanical elements of design and build of gear.
• Ability to work with tendering and sales to define standard applications and collaborate with engineering and manufacturing to further standardize the electrical and mechanical BOM.
• Tool knowledge of SEA, plant's ERP (AMAPS, SAP, MAPICS), Windchill, Symmetry & BFO are required
• Working knowledge of other tools such as OE, ODM & LDS is preferred.

Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees, including things such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, company stock option purchase+ match, and much more.

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