Senior Project Manager
Carbice Corporation
Carbice Corporation – Atlanta, GA (ON-SITE POSITION)
http://www.carbice.com
Company Overview
Based in Atlanta, GA, the Carbice Corporation is a thermal solutions company focused on manufacturing aligned Carbice® Nanotube thermal products to drive the future of the modern, sustainable digital world on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Our products are designed to bring increased freedom, connectivity, inspiration, and satisfaction to all human life. Carbice® technology has set the new standard of performance for thermal materials while helping customers achieve new, better, or more cost-effective solutions for thermal management. We are presently looking for talented, driven, and enthusiastic professionals to join our dynamic team and help us build the future.
The Opportunity - Senior Project Manager
This is an exciting opportunity to work across the Carbice Corporation organization, managing key technical and product level projects from definition to completion. The successful candidate will be responsible for working with R&D, engineering, product management and the customer facing team to define the project, understand the keys to success, document the plan to execute, and follow through to on time completion. He or she will develop a good working understanding of the products and technology and develop a strong working relationship across the organization.
The successful candidate will not only have an opportunity to join a fast-growing company, but also join a team that is focused on being an outstanding corporate citizen, and a responsible member of the community. We are focused on environmental sustainability as well as serving our community as leaders and mentors.
Responsibilities
This role will develop both over the short and long term. This position will provide opportunity to advance to leadership roles over time. The role offers an opportunity to learn and become an expert in our product and in product interfaces and solutions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow into a Senior Executive running large areas of the Carbice business over time.
- Lead company project and program management across the organization.
- This leader will be accountable for creating technical and product project plans working with engineering, product development and marketing.
- This leader will be responsible for understanding the needs of each project, defining the project scope, project objectives, laying out the project actions, activities and documenting the schedule in collaboration with management and company stakeholders.
- This leader will identify resources required to complete the project
- This leader will identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies and monitor risks through the project lifecycle.
- They will be responsible for creating project plans and implement / organize using Microsoft Project or other tools.
- This leader will be responsible for communicating status and tracking all plans to closure.
- This leader will be a critical resource for the engineering team and product management teams provide coordination and control of all company key projects.
- This leader will have a key role in problem solving, bringing in all key company personnel as needed to solve issues and keep projects on track.
- The candidate must have the executive presence working with company leaders to communicate and drive progress.
- The successful candidate will team up with all the key business functions across the front end, engineering and manufacturing.
In addition, this role will:
- Develop positive work relationships with all levels of management and other departments in the company, work collaboratively with corporate functions, HR, legal, finance, etc.
- Educate internally and externally including business partners and new sales channels for Carbice products.
- Help resolve any issues and problems faced by teammates and deal with technical issues to build personal and company trust.
- Communicate with the executive, engineering and the product team about progress as well as the process of project management.
Qualifications
- BS in Engineering, Materials Science or related technical field, BBA, BSBA, or MBA.
- Experience in project management and leadership
- Strong technical skills, able to teach and learn.
- 5 years of experience in project management
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Mastery and experience using Microsoft Project and other project management tools.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience balancing technical and business aspects of projects to drive value solutions to customers.
- Track record of meeting measurements and KPI’s while completion of projects and programs.
- High motor – high energy business leader.
- Ability to “roll up sleeves” and personally take action.
Desired Qualities
Desired Qualities
- Track record for exceeding KPI’s and/or business goals.
- Curious/Analytical: Able to be the customer. (internal and external) Understand how they think, what they want and why.
- Resourceful/Scrappy: Creative about ways to get the job done efficiently.
- Hungry/Results Oriented: Hard worker, highly motivated to learn, execute, deliver and be accountable for results.
- Organized/Diligent: Follow up regularly and maintain momentum with counterparties. Equip yourself with all required documents, tools, and methods to move the audience.
- Polished/Relatable: Manage conversations and meetings with external parties smoothly, charismatically, and with gravitas. Endeavor to avoid jargon wherever possible. Get along / resonate well with everyone from VPs to entry level analysts.
- Self-aware/Humble: Enjoy constructive feedback (+’s and deltas), and proactively identify opportunities for self-improvement.
