Project Manager, Robotics

STOW Group • Romeoville, IL

67d • $130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The PROJECT MANAGER is an integral person in helping our customer’s vision for an automated storage solution from Movu US come to life. The core objective is to execute sold projects within the set timelines and budget. Oftentimes, there’s close collaboration with the assigned Racking Project Manager from stow US. Solutions include fully automated storage solutions such as pallet shuttles (atlas), tote shuttles (eScala), automated mobile robots (iFollow), and ancillary systems like conveyors and lifts. Customers include end users located throughout the United States and Canada, working with many leading integrators as Sales partners. Typical project size ranges from 1-40M.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a directly relatable position
• Experience with the complexities of executing multimillion-dollar custom warehouse systems projects from A-Z
• Bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required
• PMP certification is preferred but not required
• SAP knowledge is beneficial
• Willingness to travel throughout North America to customer sites, 30-75% across the year
• Regular travel to the office in Romeoville to work closely with Engineering and Management (20-30% depending on project travel requirements)
• Occasional travel to headquarters in Belgium (possibly once a year for no more than 2 weeks)

Responsibilities

• Take over from Sales and Sales Engineering and lead kick off meetings
• Act as the single point of contact for the integrator customer throughout the project lifecycle
• Collaboratively create material schedules based on the customer’s timeline
• Communicate progress, roadblocks and suggested solutions proactively to the customer and internal stakeholders at all stages of the project
• Develop the project budget with assistance from management
• Issue purchase orders for locally sourced products, equipment, services, etc.
• Collaborate with Project Engineering and Supply Chain regarding transport planning
• Ensure that building specs are confirmed in an initial site survey
• Present the project plan to the end-customer and integrator
• Create project schedules
• Secure installation contractors and share instructions/drawings
• Initiate change orders
• Initiate customer invoicing at key milestones in SAP
• Keep track of project spend
• Identify project risks or uncertainties, escalate issues to the relevant project stakeholders, take mitigative action to stay within the project timeline
• Be accountable for the automation installation with the assistance of a lead commissioning engineer
• Work with a stow US Racking Project Manager to ensure racking is installed on time and within the needed automation specification

Benefits

• 20 days PTO
• 5 days paid sick leave
• 11 US paid holidays
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, including Family coverage, currently 90% Company paid
• Company paid Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Company Paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• 401K with employer match, currently 4%
• Partial Tuition Reimbursement after 12 months

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees