Faith Technologies is a company that focuses on innovative construction, engineering, manufacturing, and renewable energy solutions. The Project Manager, R&D will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage project resources, timelines, and budgets while ensuring adherence to quality performance metrics throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Serves as change agent: makes project goals their own and uses their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team and encourage improvement opportunities
Utilizes best practice Project Management methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver with-in budget on desired outcomes. Leads the project with passion, as if it was his or her own business
Works closely with cross-functional teams (i.e., Marketing, Sales, Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, etc.) to define project scope and objectives to ensure project members understand what is expected of them and what they should expect from one another
Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports
Uses a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored, and controlled. Adapts approach to the context and constraints of each project, knowing that no "one size" can fit all the variety of projects
Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation of risks or issues. Proactively follows escalation and change control processes. Manages overall ownership of reports on a given engagement
Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project. Cultivates the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of the project stakeholders
Maintains detailed record throughout the life of a project by ensuring documentation is saved within project repository in a timely manner and shares information as necessary
Serves as a mentor to project members along with fellow project managers
Manages all aspects of costs, including estimating, funding, budgeting, forecasting, controlling, and reporting
Engages team to identify project risks. Develops mitigation strategies/plans and works to have strategies in place should they be needed. Negotiates conflict resolution when needed between team members or solution owners, if necessary
Recognizes when problems surface or potential problems are looming. Brings the right people together to solve problems and knows when the problem has been properly addressed and closed
Demonstrates success in scope management, schedule management, cost management, quality management, resource management, stakeholder management, communication management, risk management, and integration management
Ensures projects are completed safely, profitably, timely, of high quality, and according to customer expectations
Promotes a positive Company Culture by fostering friendly and constructive employee relations
Performs other related duties as required and assigned

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Management, Project Management, Engineering, Analytics, or a related field is required
Minimum of 5-10 years of demonstrated Project Management experience
Experience with stage-gate Product Development Process (PDP) and Product Lifecycle Management experience
Experience with Solution Delivery Process (SDP) required
Management of small to large project teams
Managing and controlling project budgets between $50k - $1M
Strong stakeholder management skills with experience interacting with Executive Leadership
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
Lean Six Sigma experience preferred
Recent experience managing projects of all sizes small to medium and medium to large size with varying complexity

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Project Manager, R&D