Project Manager, Life Cycle

About the role:

As a Life Cycle Project Manager, you will join DCS’s Life Cycle team, focusing on the execution of expansion and modification projects for our existing customers and strategic projects for our new customers.

This role is designed to be a hybrid between a Project Manager and Site Manager position, giving the candidate extreme ownership of a project and hands-on experience with material handling systems. A typical Life Cycle Project will require a combination of both remote and on-site management, with typical projects requiring 1 to 6 weeks of time on site.

Though your primary responsibility will be on execution and project completion, your input and skills will be utilized throughout all project phases, including pre-sales activities such as concepting solutions, developing execution plans, and project budgeting.

As a DCS Project Manager, you’ll be the person our customers think of when they think of us, and we know they’ll think highly of you because you’ll be the partner they trust to bring their project to life. You’ll be there for them, providing communication and clarity, staying calm and solving problems, leading and guiding your team, and overseeing all phases of your project’s life cycle. And we can’t wait to meet you.

In this role, you will:

• Report through DCS’s Life Cycle team, focusing on existing customer expansions and strategic small projects.
• Lead a project team through all phases of a Life Cycle Project including initiation, planning, execution, and closure.
• Assist with pre-sales functions and discussions to ensure projects are properly scoped, defined, and budgeted.
• Develop schedules using Microsoft Project that accurately reflect the scope of the work and confirm alignment with priorities and resource allocation. Critical path must be defined.
• Provide leadership and guidance to a cross functional team to ensure process role, clarity, support, accountability and transparency, review projects and resources weekly and make suggestions when needed to align resources more effectively with project leads.
• Develop strong relationships with internal team members at all levels to further foster collaboration, transparency, accountability and risk mitigation.
• Be on-site and responsible for construction, start-up, and testing for Life Cycle Projects, typically 1-6 weeks in duration.
• Communicate with customers, vendors, and other suppliers concerning all staffing, scheduling, system layout and safety issues. 
• Oversee inbound receipt of equipment and resolve inventory issues.
• Prepare project reports (including daily reports and punch lists) in accordance with customer specifications, engineering as builts, and site-specific requirements.
• Perform workplace safety audits and write job hazard reports and task training outlines.
• Manage day-to-day client interaction and expectations for Life Cycle Projects.
• Manage and maintain budget and cash flow.
• Identify billing issues when they arise.

We’re Excited About You Because:

• You have 3+ years or more of Project Management or Site Management experience in a similar industry.
• You can manage a team of 8 through all phases of a $2 million material handling project.
• You are proficient in MS Office environment, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, and Calendar.
• You can speak and write clearly and accurately.
• You are willing to cooperate with others and work to the greater good.
• You possess multi-tasking capabilities
• You have the ability to adapt to work changes / work environment and adjust effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• You are focused on accomplishing work objectives for yourself and your team.
• You have the ability to coordinate technical requirements with non-technical personnel.

About Us:

Conveyor may be in our name, but it’s only part of what we do. DCS was founded in 1982 and has grown to serve major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their need. We don’t sell ready-made systems - we build relationships that empower us to craft custom solutions together. It’s the teamwork approach, sharing ideas and building upon them, that produces the best results.

And DCS is committed to creating an extraordinary employment experience for our team. We work like crazy to hire and develop great people, build relationships, and ensure that the programs and services we offer our team are among the best in the business- from a killer snack wall and casual work environment to flexible PTO and opportunities to give back within the community.

More reasons to join our team:

• We pride ourselves in our family-like culture and casual, but focused, work environment
• We offer competitive salaries and health benefits
• Our 401K program includes a 100% match up to 5%
• Participation in our Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program
• We offer our employees flexibility and autonomy
• We do community outreach projects throughout the year
• We know how to throw company events
• We work hard, but we also know how to have fun - darts, anyone?

Individuals seeking employment at Designed Conveyor Systems are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Accommodation is available to applicants with a disability condition, when applying, testing, or interviewing for a position. Please let us know if you need accommodation.