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Job Summary
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Job Description
Nidec Industrial Solutions:
Nidec Industrial Solutions [NIS] is a $500M Business Unit of Nidec Corporation, a $18 Billion global company focused on motors, drives, and controls. NIS is headquartered in Milan, Italy with footprint in 10 countries and growing. Our US operations are based in Cleveland, OH. NIS Americas activities span a range of business models including products manufacturing, system engineering and automation, installation, and services. Our customers and applications are in Oil &Gas, Mining, Renewable Energy & Storage, Metals manufacturing, Pulp & Paper, Marine, Material Handling, Power Generation, Electrical Vehicle Charging and other diverse sectors.
Position Summary:
Provide perfect execution project management of standard and custom power conversion products, assemblies, and systems which include AC and DC Low Voltage Drives, Inverters for Battery Energy Storage & EV charging, Medium Voltage Drives, PLC’s, and HMI’s for both industrial and renewable energy applications. Directly manage projects, typically 4-5 simultaneously at different stages of progress/completion, while working closely with customers, installation contractors, engineering, field service, procurement, and contracts to ensure successful project completions of customer applications across North America.
The project manager will be an independent, customer-facing technical application engineer for several strategic accounts and customers. This role requires a self-motivated, results-oriented professional with a strong technical aptitude and a passion to succeed.
Essential Job Functions
- Develop detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
- Lead and manage cross-functional teams on electrical and controls projects to deliver commitments on schedule, under budget, and exceeding customer expectations
- ‘Execution face’ of Nidec: Communicate and meet with customers through the life of each project
- Review, summarize, and communicate the contractual requirements, milestones, and criticalities to internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate material delivery timeline with procurement to properly plan and stage manufacturing and assembly resources
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties’ suppliers during project’s execution
- Prepare and present reporting of progress and financial performance of Projects under management
- Provide expertise in project initiation, scope definition, resource planning, schedule development, time estimating, cost estimating, budgeting, risk analysis and management, reporting, and project closure
- Manage changes to project's scope, schedule, and costs
- Assist in the estimation and preparation of RFQ’s for sub-contracted services and vendor equipment
Competencies:
- Strong technical skills, in electric fundamentals as well as computers
- Aggressive, goal oriented self-driver with strong work ethic
- Innovative, creative person
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
- Outstanding verbal and written communications skills
Education Requirements
- Engineering or Engineering Technology degree, or equivalent
- PMP certification desired
- PE Certification a plus
Experience Requirements:
- 3+ years of direct experience in industrial projects management
- Proven track record in managing large scale multi-million-dollar customer-facing projects
- Ability to work with team members that are not direct reports
- Experience with Electrical, Controls, and high-power applications will be a plus
- Working knowledge of NEC, OSHA and NFPA codes
- Project management tools experience – MS Project, MS Excel, SharePoint
- Percent of Complete (PoC) Accounting familiarity preferred
- SAP environment experience preferred
Working Conditions
- Able to physically work at the newly constructed, OSHA compliant, ISO certified facility in Cleveland, Ohio, which provides a unique blend of office-style engineering and comprehensive manufacturing.
- Up to 15% Travel for site surveys, installation meetings, and site supervision if required
- Able to physically travel and traverse industrial and commercial sites including heights, long walking distances and flights of stairs
Additional Job Details
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf
No Soliciting
Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.
