Site Manager
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Job Description
Site Manager overseeing Vanderlande material-handling equipment installations, contracts, safety, and project delivery. Leading site teams and customer relationships with 80–90% domestic or international travel.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the on-site installation team on complex projects
- Take ownership of site-related challenges
- Manage P&L responsibility for site-based activities and associated costs
- Manage site-based contracts involving high project risk and complex installed equipment
- Understand contracts and mitigate related risks
- Monitor on-site activities for 50% of each scheduled workday, including at least three full site walks daily
- Identify and analyze potential problems, risks, and opportunities and initiate corrective and preventive actions
- Manage claim avoidance and claim handling when necessary
- Manage quality, time, costs, and information provision
- Report and escalate nonconformities to the customer and Project Manager
- Negotiate with customers and subcontractors and manage contract issues
- Manage stakeholders at all levels, including senior management
- Communicate with customers about progress, out-of-scope work, and site-related issues
- Manage high-quality installation execution according to corporate processes
- Perform quality checks on installations and related processes
- Organize and oversee HSE activities on site
- Produce the Installation Project Plan covering objectives, organization, planning, and cost calculations in consultation with the Project Manager
- Initiate improvements to the site management process
- Provide timely reporting to customers, the Project Manager, and head office
Requirements:
- Relevant Project Management experience managing engineering projects, though a craft-based background is equally valid
- Track record in project delivery
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written skills
- Proven leadership capabilities in creating unified and motivated project teams
- Exceptional organizational skills and experience working effectively in a team environment incorporating engineering and project management
- Proactive and hands-on work ethic
- Proven ability in problem solving, especially in intense situations
- Working knowledge of electromechanical controls wiring and systems
- Experience with contract management, project planning, and site organization
- Ability to travel up to 80–90% domestically or internationally
- Ability to talk and hear regularly
- Ability to lift materials up to 50 pounds on occasion
- Ability to bend at the knees to inspect pallets or read packing lists
Benefits:
- Annual performance bonus program
- Eligible for an hourly rate
- Full-time, exempt position
- Equal opportunity/affirmative action employer








