Project Manager

Project Manager

The Opportunity:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed Project Manager to join the Engineering Services Project Management Team in the King of Prussia, PA office. If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills as a project manager on national and international projects and working on power system solutions with our power customers, then this position is for you!

This position is located in King of Prussia, PA.

King of Prussia is a suburb of the greater Philadelphia area in PA. This area is rich in cultural and historic attractions and is famous for the Amish settlements and the history of the American Revolution and Civil War. Shopping is readily available along with a diversity of cuisines offered. This position is located in the Engineering Services Division that provides high quality, innovative and high value systems and services using SEL technology.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage proposal efforts and successfully negotiate proposal/contracts to award.
• Negotiate and administer fair and appropriate contracts with customers, subcontractors and equipment suppliers.
• Identify, lead and direct team resources.
• Manage large, multi-discipline, international and national projects.
• Manage the schedule and budget of projects with several engineers, subcontractors, and end-user customers.
• Be the primary customer contact for a project throughout all phases of the project.
• Communicate with SEL Management and the project team.
• Resolve customer concerns and foster customer satisfaction.
• Manage customer expectations.
• Plan and control all aspects of a project such as scope, schedule, budget.
• Effectively use project management tools.
• Work daily with project technical lead engineers to bring a project to successful conclusion.
• Run daily meetings, delegate tasks, evaluate performance, and provide regular project summaries for internal and external customers.
• Create, follow and improve processes.
• Supervisory and other duties as assigned.
• Mentor and train project coordinators.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Physics or Chemistry
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certified
• Over five years relevant experience as a project manager of electric power system projects
• Excellent presentation and writing skills
• Skilled at conflict resolution
• Willing to travel nationally and internationally up to 30%
• Ability to work independently, accepting complete ownership of assigned responsibilities
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL
• Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience being a part of project teams
• Electrical utility, consulting or system integrator experience
• Bachelors of Science degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Physics or Chemistry
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certified
• Knowledge of MS Project
• Knowledge of Deltek Vision software
• Project management or leadership training
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license

If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.

SEL sends an initial e-mail response to all applicants at time of resume submittal. If you do not receive this communication, please check your SPAM filter and make sure your system is not blocking e-mails from SEL. It is important that you ensure your receipt of this e-mail as SEL may communicate future position updates via e-mail.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
 

An Award Winning Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has earned a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service. This has enabled us to expand within both the electric utility and industrial markets to include international customers and OEM markets.

SEL earned a spot on the 2012 FORTUNE Magazine 100 Best Companies to Work For list. This prestigious ranking celebrates the SEL 100% employee-owned culture as one of the best in the country. SEL has received numerous awards, including the Puget Sound Business Journals 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State (1999 through 2003, 2010, and 2011), Inc. Magazines 500|5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies (1990, 1991, 2008, 2010, and 2011), the Association of Washington Businesses (AWB) Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service Award (1998 through 2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evens Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including: technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. Since 2006, SEL has also held the elite VPP STAR status certification for outstanding safety and health programs.

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to 3000 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.

Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.

Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the companys growth.

In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.

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Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.

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