Project Manager - Indianapolis

Are you looking for a career with a growing company? Do you like to travel and work with different people across the United States? Bastian Material Handling is the fastest growing systems integrator in the U.S. We are looking for a Project Manager who will promote BMH in all appropriate forums. Someone who will can work as a team with the rest of the office “small business mentality”, and who can master product information through training and personal efforts. If this is what you are looking for, please join us in a challenging environment, that supports blended personal and professional lives, and to have fun as we compete in the marketplace.

Bastian Material Handling (BMH) is dedicated to helping companies compete in their markets by providing the best material handling system solutions and information technology. We have been serving the material handling industry ince 1952. BMH is an independent system integrator dedicated to the development of practical engineered material handling systems and equipment combined with information technology and superior service to help the industry meet their customer's demands. To meet this goal, we want a company that our people are proud of and committed to, where all the employees have an opportunity to contribute, learn, grow, and advance based on merit. We want our people to feel respected, treated fairly, listened to, and involved.

Overview:
The Project Manager’s (PM’s) normal involvement in the sales cycle generally begins as part of the Sales team on the project. This may involve estimating, solicitation of subcontractor proposals, assistance in presentations, review of proposed contracts, and systems design. As the sales process continues, the PM takes on increasing responsibility for understanding and controlling BMH’s risk from technical, contractual, and cash flow, and organizational standpoint. Once the order becomes a contract, the PM has sole responsibility for budget, schedule and design. The PM translates the Sales estimate into a budget suitable for entering into Great Plains.
For larger projects, and increasingly so as the group grows, the PM’s success will depend increasingly on his or her leadership, communications ability and performance, and ability to manage the details of multiple projects; although technical and problem-solving skills will continue to be important.

The technologies used range from high-level automation (robotics, AS/RS, AGV’s, high speed sortation, light directed picking, etc.) to conventional products (workstations, rack pick modules, fabricated carts, vertical lifts, etc.) Our goal is to help companies compete in their markets by providing the best material handling system solutions and technology.
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications:
Bachelors of Engineering required. Masters Degree in Business or Engineering or P.E. preferred. Experience and/or education in basic financials, conversant with concepts of project ROI, discounted cash flows, simple and compound interest and depreciation.
Must be extremely literate with MS Office software suite (particularly MS Excel).
AutoCad and MS Project or Primavera experience preferred. Material Handling, Robotics, Manufacturing or Packaging background required.
Previous conveying experience desired.
Must have a solid understanding of application of contemporary industrial control systems.

Attributes:
Energetic ambitious and hard working.
Strong interpersonal skills and sales or management experience required.
Strong demonstrated sense of customer service.

General Duties:
Maintain a consistently positive, enthusiastic attitude.
Communicate with BMH management regarding personal expectations and goals so that the company and individual can better work together to maintain, tweak, or overhaul the job description to everyone’s benefit.
Submit Annual Review inputs and personal goals.
Pursue MHMS Certification/GA Tech Logistics Certification.
Follow the BMH Systems Checklist.
Review proposals, contracts and new orders for accuracy and commercial and technical issues. For your proposals or key documents have another team member review.
Get the customer to commit to the design parameters and givens in writing! Fall back position is to document our assumptions as part of our proposal (ensure that they are included in the contract).
Recommend the best internal BMH team for the project. Coordinate assignment of resources with other PM’s. Primary responsibility for subcontractor selection with input from Sales and Systems Manager. Ensure that contracts with subs are structured correctly and leverage off of existing BMH templates.
Estimate and direct internal BMH resources necessary to successfully complete the project. Communicate with other Systems Team members current and anticipated needs.
Maintain positive cash flow on all projects. Work with Coordinator to follow-up on past due invoices.
Publish weekly Project Logs for projects larger than $500,000. (Smaller projects should have published minutes of key meetings and/or decisions). (Frequency of logs may be reduced where appropriate, with Systems Manager’s approval).
Be aware of budget margin and current forecast margin +/- 1% of all major projects at all times (Typically 2-3 projects at a time)! Advise Sales and Systems Manager of any significant expected deviations. Update forecast in Great Plains.
Responsible for content, format and timeliness of all project correspondence and submittals including drawings, letters, equipment and controls documentation, spare parts lists, purchase orders.
Anticipate problems take action rather than reacting.
Take ownership of BMH’s project team and our suppliers! It’s “our” conveyor, not “the vendor’s conveyor”. Take ownership of the controls. The PM should explain the project status to the customer, not the subcontractor.
Manage the project schedule. Use electronic Gantt chart for installed projects. Communicate when other project parties (e.g. customer) delay BMH. Maintain the baseline schedule for comparison.
Approve all supplier invoices related to the project. Immediately return “held” supplier invoices to coordinator and communicate the reason for holding.
Support the Site Supervisors when they need help in the field.
Lead quick resolutions to customer back-charges (always a challenge). Use the Golden Rule with back charge issues, treat suppliers how we would want to be treated, not necessarily how the customer is treating BMH.
Assist Sales in managing escrow amounts of post-completion costs, if applicable. Coordinate resolutions to post-project warranty and customer service issues.
Document, publish and present project “lessons learned”…ensure that current project “close-out” checklists are complete.
Forward all contact information for inclusion into Siebel CRM.
Organize and participate in post project “victory” engagements.

If you would like more information regarding our Project Manager position, or would just like to learn more about Bastian Material Handling, please visit our website at www.bastiansolutions.com.