Position Details
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Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.
Position: Project/Program Manager I
Location: West Chester, OH 45216
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite/Remote
Night Shift: 07:00 PM to 04:00 AM
Note: This role requires 75% of Travel and prefer candidates who live close to a major airport for easier travel arrangements.
Location: West Chester, OH 45216
Duration: 4 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite/Remote
Night Shift: 07:00 PM to 04:00 AM
Note: This role requires 75% of Travel and prefer candidates who live close to a major airport for easier travel arrangements.
Job Description:
- Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program. Oversees all aspects of projects/program. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program.
- May require a bachelor's degree and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
- The project manager will be responsible for overseeing on-site execution, working night shifts (7 PM to 4 AM)
- Managing third-party labor teams.
- Executing a specific phasing plan. Ensuring the phasing plan is completed entirely for each night.
- Escalating any issues that arise during the night's work or forecasting potential issues.
- Maintaining in-depth communication between site operations and senior leadership.
- Candidates need to live close to a major airport for easier travel arrangements.
- The job requires being prepared to travel Monday through Friday for the duration of the 9-month assignment, minus major federal holidays.
- The goal is to assign one project at a time, so travel would likely be to a consistent location for about 5-6 months.
- There's a possibility that midway through the assignment (around the 5-6 month mark), they might have to travel to different locations week over week if assigned to two projects.
- The work involves retrofitting existing client grocery buildings, modifying them to meet new design requirements and customer needs.
- Responsibilities include design review, ordering shelving, overseeing installation of new shelving through third-party contractors, and ensuring all work meets permitted standards and food health safety standards.
- The project manager needs to be able to work in a live operational environment, making changes to buildings while they're still running without impacting customer or associate experience.
- The role requires strong communication skills, technological proficiency (including use of computers, email, Microsoft software, and potentially CAD or other specialized software), and the ability to travel continuously.
- The HM emphasized that this is a travel-intensive role with night work, requiring flexibility and the ability to work in various locations across the client locations.
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects
Current responsibilities include:
- Design review
- Ordering shelving
- Installing/overseeing installation of new shelving through third-party contractors
- Ensuring work meets permitted standards
- Ensuring work meets food health safety standards
- Preparing buildings to be turned over to operations for live pickup products
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
Role interesting
- Travel around the client locations.
- This is an experience that you won't get anywhere else in terms of interacting in a live operational environment with complexities that you don't see at your major grocery stores or retailers
- Get to learn a lot about the different brands of shelving and manufacturers throughout the client location, that support and supply of both client but other companies with the client locations.
Leadership principles:
- Bias for actio
- Earns trust
Candidate Requirements
Industry Preference:
- Preference for candidates with construction, grocery, or major retail, major retail construction
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Must live near a major airport/metropolitan city
- Read Composite / Drawings
- Understand / know how to use a computer, Microsoft products, smart sheets, BIM360, Bluebeam and CAD
- Strong communication and ability to make decision in high pressure situations.
- Experienced Projects before.
- Travel: Willingness to travel 75%
- Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Prior client employee experience would be beneficial
- Financial Acumen: Experience with financial analysis is a plus.
- PMP certified
- Engineering or Construction Background
Yrs Exp:
- 4-7 years of project management experience
Disqualifiers / red flags:
- Unwillingness to work nights
- Unwillingness to travel consistently
- Lack of access to reliable communication platforms
- Living too far from major airports/metropolitan area
Top 3 must-have hard skills
- Communication: "Clear and effective" communication skills
- Computer proficiency, Experience with email, Microsoft software, Ability to use Blue beam software, CAD
- Ability to travel (night work)
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
