Bilingual Project Manager (English & Spanish)

Positions Available: Bilingual Project Manager (Spanish & English)

Reports To: Engineering Manager

Job Type: Full-time (Hybrid) FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary:

Lube-Power, Inc. (LPI) is a privately owned ISO 9001 certified small business founded in 1979. Our mission is to understand our clients’ businesses, budgets, and technical needs, enabling us to support them in accomplishing their goals. Our success is in our customer care, our quality of work and our employees. We are an equal opportunity employer seeking employees who agree with our values and take pride in their work. LPI’s main office and manufacturing facility is located in south east Michigan in a suburb north of Detroit. We have globally been an industry leader in oil lubrication systems for over 45 years. LPI also provides custom solutions and manufacturing for other special industrial fluid and gas equipment, and packaging for a wide range of rotating equipment and industries and continues to increase our reach and capabilities.

Feel free to visit us online at http://www.lubepower.com.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

The successful candidate is responsible for the overall project management function, including scope of supply, customer communication and management, scheduling, profitability, and customer satisfaction keeping projects on schedule and in budget. The project manager directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of projects by performing the following duties:

- Reviews contractual documents like the sales proposal/write up, purchase order and contracts traveler along with other key terms/conditions/specifications to manage and maintain a clear scope of supply.

- Develops a project plan supporting deliverables such as documents, material lead times, inspection, and final shipment.

- Controls project costs by approving expenditures and administering contract changes.

- Help determine and assign priorities when conflicting project tasks arise in any department.

- Lead company and customer or inspector group meetings in and out of the office by phone conference and in person. The successful candidate will be the main point of contact on all projects they are managing.

- Provide expertise, experience, and problem resolution for complex project issues.

Benefits:

- Vision, Group Life, Medical, Dental, and STD/LTD Insurances.

- Employer contributes up to 70% cost of Medical and Dental premiums.

- Low deductible plans offered (both PPO and HMO).

- Employer contribution up to 3% Simple IRA plan.

- Paid time off: Holidays (8 days per year), Vacation (up to 5 weeks), PTO (4 days per year) and Bereavement.

- Tuition Reimbursement is Available when directly related depending on performance as is participation in professional training, certifications, licenses and memberships.

- Remote Work / Relocation Reimbursement may be considered depending on the candidate.

- Minimal travel may be expected as required by the project, below 5%.

Qualifications / Skills / Personality Traits:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

- Must be open to 20% travel locally, out of state, and internationally.

- Must be able to fluently speak English and Spanish

- 5+ years of closely related equipment and industry experience as a project manager (preferably with lube oil system experience, ASME piping and API 614).

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills: Effectively communicate via email, written and verbally by phone or in person. Able to listen, absorb, follow directions and provide valuable feedback.

- Performance Driven Self Starter: Need to have a strong work ethic and be self-motivated, disciplined to achieve goals and deadlines putting in extra time or effort as needed. Needs to face obstacles head on with determination and persistence to work through them.

- Positive Team builder: Ability to work in harmony with others. Must be able to develop and maintain good working relationships with co-workers, vendors and customers.

- Problem Solving Skills: Able to proactively identify and analyze problems and determine solutions to implement the best possible outcome with minimal direction.

- Project management and delivery: Organizational and planning skills are necessary for time management, multi-tasking and working through competing demands to use effectively use resources and complete tasks correctly and on time.

- Technical Understanding/Competency: Able to learn and absorb how complex mechanical and electrical equipment work and how to grasp sizing and selecting sub-parts of that equipment, review and understand technical industry standards and customer specifications.

Preferred:

- PMP (Project Manager Professional) Certificate

- Bachelor of Science or greater.

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools such as Outlook, Excel, Project, and Word.

- Working Experience using ERP systems similar to SAP Business One

If you are interested, please apply with your cover letter with Salary requirements and resume. We look forward to hearing from you.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Dental insurance

- Flexible schedule

- Health insurance

- Health savings account

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Retirement plan

- Vision insurance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Houston, TX