Project Manager; Smart Handling

Daifuku Airport America Corporation is a subsidiary of Daifuku North America, a group company of Daifuku in Japan – the largest material handling company in the world. Our advanced systems move everything from car bodies at auto plants to luggage at airports to packaged goods  are experts in engineering, manufacturing, and servicing innovative automated material handling systems including conveyors, automatic guided vehicles, automated storage & retrieval systems, and integrated controls.

This position reports to the Director of Project Management in our Non-Airport Products division with the primary purpose of providing overall project management support for small to medium‑size Smart Handling Projects with a minor amount of supervision, contributing to the success of the team, department, and company.

• Administer the project contract requirements from point of sale to completion with warranty commencement.
• Maintain open and professional lines of communication with our customers as the central point of contact.
• Chair regular team meetings and document minutes to members and project folders.
• Assist in developing project timelines and milestones; document status of each project regularly to the customer.
• Evaluate team progress and report weekly to management; proactively outline potential project risks and define them with triggers for contingency plans.
• Track financial project progress and report monthly to cost accounting; generate invoice requests to AR.
• Work with internal departments and external customers to track and resolve challenges, errors, or complications in any phase of the project to bring projects on schedule and under budget.
• Work with Senior Project Managers to assist with large projects as needed.
• Lead the Request Letter process and define customer requirements to estimating; ensure design approvals from the customer are obtained.
• Coordinate installation plans, site supervision, and commissioning.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Lead “Lessons Learned” reviews and document them at the completion of the project.
• Mentor Associate Project Managers.

• Time Management – managing one's own time and the time of others; focused on multi‑tasking.
• Service Orientation – actively looking for ways to assist other team members.
• Critical Thinking – using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems; facilitate brainstorming sessions.
• Judgment and Decision Making – considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one with assistance from Senior PMs or Director of PM.
• Monitoring – monitoring/assessing performance of you, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Verbal and Written Expression and Recognition – ability to listen to, understand, and communicate information and ideas presented through spoken or written words and sentences.
• Information Ordering – ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules.
• Problem Sensitivity – the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong; it does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there could become a problem.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

• Basic – 4‑year degree in business, PMP certification or technical discipline & previous work experience in material handling or the automation industry; a minimum of five years of work in the material handling automation industry in an engineering/project lead type role.
• Preferred – 4‑year undergraduate degree in engineering/PM.
• Preferred – Knowledge of computer scheduling software (MS Project, Primavera, etc.), MS Excel/Word/Powerpoint, and Procore.

Remain stationary for 50% of the time; move/traverse throughout the office to access file cabinets and office equipment; operate a computer and other…