
Project Manager
29 June 2022
Swisslog is a member of the KUKA Group, a leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions with more than 14,000 employees worldwide.
Working as part of our Project Team you will use the power of technology to shape the future of intralogistics for forward-thinking customers. We’re offering a talented individual the opportunity to join our incredible team and get the most out of their potential – could it be you?
Short Facts
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Redditch, United Kingdom
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Project Management
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Part-time
Make an impact
Leadership
- Establish, manage and motivate mixed (Swisslog and client), cross-functional realization project team
- Leverage team member’s skills / experience to enhance the project team’s results
- Influence and convince customers, sub-suppliers, direct reports and managers
- Lead/drive change process at client
- Increase project benefit and prevent project risks by appropriate risk management
- Selection of potential sub-contractors for the project in cooperation with other company functions (engineering, control system etc.)
Technical / commercial knowledge & planning
- Regularly perform and update critical path analysis
- Elaborate contracts with sub-contractors, minimizing risks for SLOG
- Keep updated lists of outstanding items, correspondence with the relevant interfaces (customer, subcontractors, co-suppliers), minutes of meetings and discussions
- Prepare, manage and keep updated the official project time schedule (in MS Project) with reference to SLOG supplies and the relevant customer milestones
- Give support to Sales department. in the contract definition phase and in future relationship for extensions and/or new business
- Ensures the issue of the project documentation according to the SLOG quality standards
- Ensures Sub-contractors supply on the required level of quality (CE, validation, etc.)
- Lead responsibility that all the project specifications (layout, functional, acceptance test specs. etc.) are timely issued and detailed enough to avoid technical and contractual risks for SLOG
- Assume a constant attention and motivation in claim management towards the sub-contractors
- Motivate change orders / claims towards the customer
- Set up and manage effective project cost controlling and milestone based payment
- Keep updated project forecast (PKU), cash flow and status report
- Present Swisslog and take responsibility towards for the customer
Bring to the team
- Previous experience in project management or work with a project methodology approach in a technical / engineering and customer-oriented environment
- Proven experience of successful managed long-term projects
- Previous experience of working in the supply chain field/logistics field would be desirable but not essential
- Technical understanding of Automation Software, supplier components (cranes, conveyors, AGV etc.) would be desirable but not essential
Our promise
Swisslog provides you with the possibility to grow while working with us to deliver a game changing mission: to shape the future of intralogistics by introducing an era of robotic and data-driven automated solutions that create exceptional customer value. We are proud of our Swiss roots, while the opportunities we offer stretch across the globe. We don't expect perfection, but we do expect Collaboration, Commitment, Clarity, and Competence (our Core Values) from all our colleagues. In return, we offer you the chance to be part of the driving force behind solutions that are shaping the future, while we develop the leaders that will shape ours.
About Swisslog
WE OFFER
Swisslog is part of a global organization that strives to provide opportunities, a healthy work-life balance and a wide range of social activities. Just some of the benefits our teams enjoy include:▪ Competitive salary and benefits
▪ Working with advanced technologies
▪ Encourages new ideas & innovations
▪ Empowerment & project ownership
▪ Multi-cultural workplace that promotes diversity
▪ Future-oriented projects with leading brands
▪ Hands on training & skills development
▪ Domestic and international career opportunities.