Job Description

Worthington Armstrong Venture is adding a Project Manager, Adjacent Products to our Belcamp, MD Facility. Join our team, we build better, together! Under the direction of the Belcamp General Manager, the Project Manager, Adjacent Products is responsible for coordinating design, engineering, supply chain, vendors, manufacturing and customer communication on strategic and custom projects. The successful candidate will have experience or background in construction management, project management, data center design, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, vendor coordination, installation and proactive communication with sales, manufacturing and customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the business.

Primary Areas of responsibility include:

• Provide leadership and coordination on all strategic and custom projects to be serviced by the Belcamp facility.
• Primary liaison between Sales, Design, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and installation team members for specified projects
• Project coordination to ensure products design is meeting design intent as well as ensure on-time delivery to customer
• Prepare project management documents to effectively communicate status of projects
• Collect necessary information and quotes to determine project cost / sales estimation
• Take ownership of strategic outside vendor relationships and orders that would require 3rd party assistance to fulfill customer orders.
• Review and process new orders
• Issue and manage purchase orders
• Inventory management
• Production and shipping schedule
• Communication between the plant and sales for lead times, readiness, shipping confirmation
• Manage online store including order entry, payments, shipping, and customer communication (if applicable)
• Update raw material costs to generate standards
• Participate in flow of customer orders between Sales, Design, Customer Service, Manufacturing and Supply Chain team, ensuring smooth communication to produce each of these orders
• Provide project specific pricing for sales team.
• Review incoming orders for completeness and accuracy. Ensure that orders have corresponding quotations and validate pricing.
• Identify and procure required materials for new jobs as needed; working with Supply Chain as necessary.
• Assist in NPD through the planning process of newly manufactured items and any required item creation. Create all Bills of Materials and Routings.
• Responsible for vendor relationships and holding vendors accountable to quality and delivery expectations.
• Coordinate custom projects across multiple disciplines.
• Responsible for the creation and communication of the daily manufacturing production schedule to the production team.
• Production Planning and scheduling required to support new orders. The production schedule needs to meet the customer requirements in terms of onsite delivery date.
• Assist in daily reviews of new orders to ensure raw material inventory availability as they pertain to the production schedule and onsite delivery date.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Minimum of associate’s degree in construction management, Project Management, Business, Engineering, or Supply Chain. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience estimating building products and custom projects desired
• Experience with production planning
• ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) experience needed
• Ability to work at both a tactical and strategic level
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time as needed
• Strong written, verbal, analytical and presentation skills
• Ability to interact effectively across levels and departments throughout the organization
• Ability to communicate and coordinate with external customers and vendors
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and meet deadlines in a time sensitive, rapidly evolving environment
• Experience within building products industry, engineering, CAD, architectural design, construction management, estimating, Supply Chain planning or project management preferred

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit for prolonged periods; repetitive motion of hands/wrists/fingers; concentrate and repeat the same physical or mental activities over and over; think analytically and be exact or highly accurate; make decisions such as to identify moderate to complex problems, develop options and implement solutions; work in a team; ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADAAA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards; pay attention to and remember details; communicate effectively including active listening to understand points being made, and asking appropriate questions and not interrupting inappropriately; speak to convey information effectively; write to communicate effectively as appropriate for the needs of the audience; read to understand work related documents; move between different physical locations within and between buildings; and push, pull, carry and lift in the normal course of travel.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions with standard level of noise common to an office environment including office equipment and co-workers speaking to each other and on phones. Employees are required to wear personal protective equipment when entering the floor of manufacturing facilities based on the specific requirements of each location.