Manufacturing Project Manager

Description:

Who we are:

Aerzen USA Corp. is an international manufacturer of positive displacement blowers, hybrid blowers, screw compressors and turbo blowers. These high-quality machines are used for air and gas applications across many essential industries, including: Wastewater, Cement, Biogas, Pharmaceutical and Food, among many others. We are One Team, and we Empower our team members to be both Inquisitive and Evolutionary.

What we offer:

Aerzen USA offers a competitive salary; generous health benefits (to include 96% company-paid benefit plans) with company HSA contribution; a 401(k) with company match; a tuition reimbursement program; and a profit share bonus package; along with the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of professionals.

What you will do:

As the Project Manager, you will manage and oversee many jobs / key strategic project processes that span across the environmental and/or industrial industries. You will review, analyze, evaluate, and record from the initiation process through to post-delivery process while providing technical support for customers and other internal customers.

Project Manager Duties:

Perform project processing requirements on time for numerous projects in different industries in Aerzen’s ERP system for production. Essential duties include: quality documentation review, ERP system navigation and processing, and technical support to various groups. Complete projects assigned using the Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure functions.

Reports:

Provide status reporting of all pertinent project activities against the program plan or schedule; Keeping direct supervisor, as well as Director of Operations, informed on project issues and status.

Ongoing personal development:

Maintains professional and technical knowledge development by attending professional workshops, reviewing internal documentation, developing job specific tools, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies. Maintains any project management related certifications.

Production liaison:

Maintains status of project completion, estimation, and customer expectation with direct supervisor as well as production and operations. Strong commitment to meet customer expectations as well as quarterly and yearly goals. Strong fundamental understanding of blower equipment including the required processing and documentation for Hybrids, Turbos, MCP- AERprocess panels, PD blowers, Compressors, E-series compressors, High Vacuum machines and more. Capable of processing orders for both ENV and IND customer types.

Customer relations:

Acts as the main point of contact for external customers, internal customers, sales representatives, engineers, and vendors, providing technical support as well as analytical solutions. Strong ability to grasp commercial implications of customer changes as well as anticipating schedule delays. Constant communication with the customer to ensure on time delivery of equipment. Acting not only as a project manager but also as a technical representative of the company providing solutions through change orders and other means. Gaining a fundamental understanding of Aerzen’s machinery and the groups they serve.

Communication:

Able to properly communicate tasks and problems to the proper team internally as well as following up on the completion of the various tasks/items. Capable of working with outside vendors or customers to ensure on- time procurement of fabricated machinery. Maintains equipment schedule with a strong understanding of possible holdups including but not limited to: equipment testing, witness testing, special freight preparation requirements for equipment, custom documentation, custom software programing, and more. Keeps constant communication with the sales team for issues with repeatable customers and possible solutions for ongoing problems.

Requirements:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree (Four-year college or technical school) Required in engineering, mathematics, sciences, or a related field with 2 - 5 years of relevant experience. Or 5 - 8 years of relevant technical experience directly related to blower technologies and its application.

Experience:

2 to 5 years of Project Management and/or project plan development, status/communications, Engineering design plans and risk management experience.

Computer Skills:

Intermediate Computer Knowledge: Able to create, use, navigate and perform reports at an Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Job Specific Software: Basic ability to create, use and retrieve project related information from ERP systems, scheduling software, etc.

Certifications & Licenses: PMP certification preferred but not required.

Other Requirements:

Must have motivational skills and a strong sense of urgency to meet Customer commitments in a timely and “above expectations” manner.

Hands-on experience utilizing lean manufacturing principles for continuous process improvements which drive productivity and profitability.

Knows the fundamental components of a financial statement and it's meaning; Understands and can create a functioning budget and meet the budgetary terms.

Identifies Aerzen products and understands their use for the job function.

Able to work simultaneously on multiple projects and numerous tasks effectively.

Aerzen USA Corp is an equal opportunity employer and selects employees on the basis of skills and experience. Aerzen USA ensures that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran’s status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. All employment decisions and actions are based on merit and made without regard to any characteristic protected by state, federal or local law.

All offers of employment at Aerzen USA Corp are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. In compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, Aerzen USA Corp has a longstanding commitment to provide a safe, quality-oriented, and productive work environment. Alcohol and drug misuse poses a threat to the health and safety of Aerzen employees and to the security of the company's equipment and facilities. For these reasons, Aerzen USA Corp is committed to the elimination of drug and alcohol use and misuse in the workplace. Applicants being considered for hire must pass a drug test before beginning work. Refusal to submit to testing will result in disqualification of further employment consideration.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including termination of employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.