Project Manager - Networking (REMOTE) Job at Lear in Southfield

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Job Description As a member of the Automation team, the Automation Project Manager will be responsible for Leading, Supporting, Implementing, and Managing Automation projections while driving innovation in advancements.
The candidate will use their vast knowledge, experience, and resourcefulness to lead and implement automation cells and drive standards across North America.
As a Project Manager in Automation, you will have project ownership from quote hand off to project close, providing customer support & communication, and ultimately responsible for the related activities performed by multi-disciplined cross functional teams.
We take a disciplined approach to project management, clearly defining objectives, timing, and critical elements to ensure success.
Advantages of working at Lear in the Automation group: Opportunities for future training to broaden skills Be part of a team of experts to drive solutions that improve efficiencies, safety and quality Work with various assembly plants and integrators.
You will provide leadership for projects including scope, risk, timing, cost, and quality.
As the customer main point of contact, you will spend most of your time communicating and facilitating the design and build process and ensuring customer satisfaction.
This will include weekly updates and direct communication with the customer to resolve open issues.
During the project you will report status updates, to both the customer and in house teams.
After project completion you will share best practices and lessons learned in monthly BP review.
Understand the financial details and budget of each assigned project.
Ensure that the projects stay within budget and alert management when the job approaches 80% of budget.
Develop Milestone Timeline and kickoff the job with a meeting with all leaders @ ASI and Automation Team that will impact the job.
Develop & manage issues lists.
PMs focus at this point of the job is to drive resolution & manage schedule to allow the team to complete the job.
Communicate to the customer timing for FAT and any shipping arrangements that need to be made.
Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent combination of experience and education. 5+ years of experience in industrial automation or engineering services industry. ~5+ years of experience in Project Management. ~ PMP desired but not required.
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Applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system.
Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.