Project Manager

What You Will Do

• Strategy – Utilize internal PE / PM to identify, develop, and execute capital projects for various plants inside the building products division while gaining knowledge, developing subject matter experts that create value and competitive advantage.
• Compliance – Company standards and expectations are followed through project completion.
• Subject Matter Expert –Provide guidance to operating management, field teams, discuss progress with Senior Leadership, present data validating project priority/status, implement existing/new technology that will enhance processes, quality, and/or product yield; and identify and gain endorsement for scope and deliverable changes necessary to ensure success.
• Project Oversight – Provide direct support to operating group, design team, field teams, and management in the form of process calculations, general arrangement layouts, drawings estimate, cost management / forecasting, scheduling, manage escalations to resolution, report out on safety successes/failures, regularly report on tracking metrics, reprioritization and reallocation of resources as appropriate, assist in creating plan adjustments where applicable, consistently apply knowledge acquired across entire network as needed and when applicable.
• Vendor Management – Identification, assessment of services for understanding and alignment of GP’s Market Based Management® approach to doing business, and escalations.
• Leadership – Technical coach to project teams, influence senior leadership to best business outcomes, increase Market Based Management® understanding across project teams, leverage Risk Management System in emphasizing safety commitment among project teams.
  
  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum of 5 (Five) or more years of Project Engineering / Project Management experience in the industrial manufacturing environment
• Experience with Mechanical and Process Engineering concepts and applications in a manufacturing environment
• Experience using Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) and AutoCad
• Ability to see things in three dimensions, space relations
• Ability to use computers and associated programs
• Project Scoping, Project cost estimation, Project scheduling
• Project involvement from development through completion
• Personnel coaching experience
• Willing and able to travel at least 50%-75% of the time (Project Dependent Fluctuates)
• Willing and able to work in areas without climate control for extended periods of time
  
  

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Higher
• Wood Products and/or Corrugated industry experience
• Direct experience on Wood Products equipment
• PMP Designation