About the Role
This position is accountable for managing customer project orders from initiation to closure, confirming customer requirements, and managing the complete job process from order preparation through financial reconciliation.
Responsibilities
- Partners with Field Sales or higher level project management roles to review and validate the project’s purchase order and bill of material, including both technical and commercial elements.
- Becomes lead contact for customer for balance of project order.
- Validates a project schedule and communicates with the customer to ensure expectations are being met.
- Direct engagement with the internal manufacturing facilities and third party vendors.
- Monitor the execution of the customer’s project order, verifying execution through kick-off meetings, communication to all parties and exchange of technical requirements and project plan information.
- Monitor the performance of the customer’s project through its lifecycle, including task completion verification, project team monitoring, schedule reporting and issue resolution.
- Lead the closeout of the customer’s project to include financial reconciliation, verification of job site equipment arrival, installation, start-up, and training support completion.
- Compares/differentiates/propose alternate products with additional customer value.
- Solves problems with customer interaction that results in positive feedback and improved relationship.
- Utilizes a base knowledge of Schneider Electric products and their use and demonstrates an understanding of the fundamental knowledge, processes and terminology needed for effective project management.
Requirements
- 4-year engineering degree in ME/EE/IE, or equivalent experience.
- Industry experience a plus.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multi task.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
- Time management skills.
- Standard business application software experience to include MS Office, MS Excel and MS Access.
- CAPM certification a plus.
- Proven track record in managing technical projects, particularly in equipment and engineering environments.
- Strong technical knowledge with expertise in project planning, organization, and resource control.
- Demonstrated ability to create detailed project documentation and risk management strategies.
- Excellence in stakeholder management and cross-functional team coordination.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to quality standards.
- Must submit an online application to be considered for any position.
Skills
- Project Management
- Technical Project Management
- Equipment and Engineering Environments
- Project Planning
- Organization
- Resource Control
- Project Documentation Creation
- Risk Management Strategies
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Team Coordination
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Quality Standards
- MS Office
- MS Excel
- MS Access
Location
- U.S. based
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Equivalent experience
Education Level
- 4-year engineering degree in ME/EE/IE
- CAPM certification
Salary/Compensations
- USD 86,400 - USD 129,600 per year
Benefits
- Medical (with member reward points)
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic life insurance
- Benefit Bucks
- Flexible work arrangements
- Paid family leaves
- Well-being programs
- 12 holidays per year
- 15 days of paid time off per year
- Competitive pay
- Incentives
- Company share ownership
- 401(k) with match
- Performance discussions
- Global opportunities
- Schneider Career Hub
- Learning platforms like Coursera
- Volunteer leave
- Programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation
- Youth education initiatives
- Military leave benefits
About the Company
- €40 billion global revenue
- +9% organic growth
- 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
- Schneider Electric values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success.
- IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork.
- Contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions.
- Achieve a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
- Intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.
- Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
- Uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance.
- Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity.
Equal Opportunity
- Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
