Plant Project Manager

Schneider Electric • FULL_TIME • Columbia, South Carolina • 4d ago

Job Description

About the position 

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

What will you do? 

You will proactively and consistently communicate directly with the Front Office on a regular basis to inform and mitigate any execution barriers to the order fulfillment with full compliance with CPP. You will coordinate meetings with the plant stake holders to track progress of the order fulfillment thru the scheduling, engineering, procurement, kitting, assembly, test and pack out of the order. You will identify, mitigate, log and track execution and cost risks throughout the duration of the project. You will proactively work with the 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 the customer. You will review customer change orders to define and communicate impact on schedule and cost impact, providing input to the pricing team. You will coordinate any witness testing that is required.   

What qualifications will make you successful? 

You should have a basic understanding of CPP as well as how the order progresses thru gates at a manufacturing plant: scheduling, approvals, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing and pack out for shipment. Candidates should have previous experience working with ETO products and familiarity with the different types of applications and complexity features related to engineered to order products. They must be able to understand the ETO application such that they can determine and communicate the barriers & risks in such a way that they can gain agreement with the front office on mitigation plans. They should be able to pro-actively identify execution risks to the on-time delivery of the order throughout the fulfillment process of the order life cycle. Basic familiarity of the core gear components such as circuit breakers, electrical components, bussing, and structure are required. Ideal candidates would have a deeper understanding of the electrical and mechanical elements of the design and build of the 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.  

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