Project Manager

This position is onsite in Pembroke, New Hampshire Essential Duties Review sales final quotes, project cost estimates, customer purchase orders, performance guarantees, specifications. Identify commercial and technical issues and work with sales teams to negotiate with customers. Set up and maintain sales orders and projects within SAP. Conduct project kick-off meetings and publish meeting notes. Drive project schedule, using SAP and Microsoft Project. Procure specialized machinery and controls from outside vendors. Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions. Issue purchase requisitions in SAP, and ensure purchase orders are issued. Follow up with vendors on schedules, drawings, approval, pre-shipment equipment check-outs. Follow equipment through mechanical and electrical engineering, manufacturing, check-out, pre-shipment testing and shipping. Visit vendors and other plants as required. Provide verbal project updates at weekly orders-in-progress (OIP) meetings. Maintain text and statuses in SAP to provide written project updates on the OIP report. Provide guidance and support to the field service dept. during installation and start-up. Manage all project scope, specs, schedule changes once hand-off from sales team has occurred. Monitor and analyze project costs and recommendations for future projects. Conduct project close-out meetings to identify source of discrepancies between planned and actual costs. Interface with customer and field service to generate and maintain project "punch list". Arrange for visits to customer's site to address warranty issues and time of installation and start-up and set up warranty sales orders to get parts on site. Required Education and Experience B.S. in mechanical or industrial engineering. At least five (5) years of experience within the food industry. Software skills" Microsoft Office including Excel, MS Project, SAP, CRM, AutoCAD viewer. Understand equipment assembly drawings, system layout drawings, electrical drawings. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Bilingual a plus. Available to travel 10%-20%. Excellent salary and benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K with company match, paid holidays, your birthday, PTO and sick and vacation! Heat and Control is an EOE/AA employer committed to workforce diversity. attach your resume in an email with the job title in the subject line to employment@heatandcontrol.com