Site Manager

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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