Lead Project Manager
About The Position
The Lead Project Manager coordinates and oversees customer projects from order receipt through final delivery, serving as the primary liaison among customers, sales, engineering, purchasing, production, warehouse operations, and suppliers. The role provides leadership and guidance on project execution, establishes priorities, identifies risks, and drives cross-functional communication to support on-time, profitable project completion and customer expectations. The position also directly supervises and supports Project Managers and other assigned team members. It assigns work and priorities, coaches and trains employees, provides performance feedback, conducts evaluations, supports development plans, assists with recruiting and onboarding, and monitors team performance and capacity. Success is assessed through project execution, team productivity and development, communication accuracy, fewer delays and escalations, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred minimum of 2–5 years of project management experience in a relevant industry.
- Proven track record of managing projects from initiation through completion.
- Experience with project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall.
- Demonstrated ability to manage project budgets, timelines, and resources.
- Experience in risk management and developing mitigation strategies.
Nice To Haves
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate customer project schedules.
- Coordinate control panel builds.
- Track material readiness.
- Maintain a change log for approved requested changes and related costs.
- Coordinate engineering releases.
- Create and maintain ERP production orders.
- Communicate production schedules.
- Provide customer status updates.
- Coordinate material expediting.
- Maintain an open issues matrix.
- Problem-solve with other teams to meet customer requirements.
- Coordinate shipments and project closeout.
- Assign projects to Project Manager staff and establish workload priorities.
- Coach, train, and provide performance feedback to team members; conduct performance evaluations and support employee development plans.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the project coordination team.
- Assist with recruiting, onboarding, and training new team members as needed.
- Monitor team performance and workload capacity.
- Call project review meetings, collaborate with Production Managers on production schedules, escalate material shortages and engineering delays, recommend production priorities, and hold departments accountable to project milestones.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
