Project Manager

The Project Manager is an experienced and highly motivated professional responsible for leading complex, custom-engineered capital equipment projects from order acceptance through installation, commissioning, and final customer acceptance. This highly visible, customer-facing role oversees the full project lifecycle, ensuring successful execution while maintaining alignment between customer expectations and internal teams. Through strong leadership, proactive problem-solving, and effective cross-functional collaboration, the Project Manager drives projects forward, resolves challenges, and delivers solutions that meet customer requirements and support long-term business relationships.\ Responsibilities\ - Manage projects from order acceptance through SAT and final customer acceptance, ensuring compliance with contractual, technical, quality, schedule, and commercial requirements.\ - Serve as the primary point of accountability for project execution and overall customer satisfaction.\ - Lead project kickoff meetings, establish objectives and deliverables, and define milestones, schedules, and responsibilities.\ - Conduct regular project reviews and status meetings, providing updates and executive-level communications.\ - Manage customer expectations regarding project scope, schedule, technical performance, and commercial matters while building strong, long-term relationships.\ - Coordinate customer design reviews, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), installation planning, commissioning, and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)\ - Lead cross-functional teams in a matrix environment, driving alignment and accountability without direct reporting authority.\ - Coordinate activities across Mechanical, Controls, Software, and Application Engineering; Operations and Manufacturing; Supply Chain and Procurement; Sales and Account Management; Service; and Quality.\ - Develop and maintain integrated project schedules using Microsoft Project or similar tools, monitoring progress against baseline commitments.\ - Identify schedule risks, remove roadblocks, and implement recovery plans to address delays and maintain project timelines.\ - Establish, track, and manage project budgets from initiation through closeout.\ - Identify and escalate critical issues, recommend corrective actions, and drive timely resolution.\ - Partner with Application Engineering and Field Service teams to support startup, commissioning, and successful project completion.\ Experience and Qualifications\ - Bachelors degree in engineering, or related technical discipline, PMP Certification preferred.\ - 8+ years of project management experience within semiconductor equipment, automation, capital equipment, advanced manufacturing, or related high-tech industries\ - Demonstrated success managing projects valued from several hundred thousand dollars to multi-million-dollar programs.\ - Proven experience leading cross-functional teams in a matrix organization\ - Proven track record of developing and deploying project management frameworks for custom manufacturing equipment organizations, enabling improved schedule predictability, cross-functional execution, customer communication, and on-time project delivery.\ - Strong customer-facing experience managing strategic customer relationships.\ - Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project or equivalent project management applications\ - Experience managing project budgets, cost controls, forecasting, and financial reporting.\ - Strong leadership, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills\ - Ability to travel as needed to support customer meetings, FATs, installations, and SAT activities\ - Experience working with international projects and global teams as well as ERP systems and project financial controls.\ For full job description, please email [email protected].