Project Manager (Working remotely from Japan)

About this role

## Key Responsibilities

• Manage projects end-to-end, including the preparation and presentation of initial sales and technical proposals.
• Review and acknowledge customer purchase orders, ensuring alignment with the approved project proposal and terms.
• Coordinate project phase-gate reviews as well as internal and external project kickoff meetings.
• Maintain regular communication with customers and provide ongoing project status updates.
• Lead regular project team meetings to monitor progress, issues, and deliverables.
• Coordinate and monitor design and build activities to ensure timely project completion.
• Plan and allocate the manpower and material resources required for successful project execution.
• Proactively identify project risks and potential issues, assess root causes, and work with the team to implement effective solutions.
• Conduct customer meetings and prepare and distribute meeting minutes, action items, and key decisions.
• Prepare and distribute standard project management reports and tracking documents, including daily status updates, task and action item logs, issue and risk logs, decision logs, resource plans, and weekly dashboards.
• Manage contract changes through Project Change Notifications and maintain the related revision summary.
• Lead project closeout meetings to document lessons learned and project performance highlights.

## Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience in automation or equipment manufacturing.
• Experience in related technical fields is preferred.
• Project management certification such as PMI/CAPM, PMP, or PRINCE2 is desirable but not mandatory.

• Proficient in MS Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, as well as MS Project.

• Good understanding of the full project life cycle, covering Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing.

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