Project Manager

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is **ATS Life Sciences** - We don’t follow the trends. We set them

Are you interested in being part of a team that makes a difference? Join our growing **ATS Life Sciences Systems** team a division of ATS Corporation, a publicly traded global enterprise with a proud history, we are helping advance the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. Within Life Sciences Systems, what we do matters - we custom design, build and service critical automated solutions for medical device and pharmaceutical companies. We are dedicated to assisting our customers in improving the quality of life for people around the world. When there is no room for error, and product failure is not an option, leading life sciences companies trust us to resolve their production challenges.

**MAJOR DUTIES**:
Responsible for projects from receipt of purchase order through final installation and final customer acceptance.

**SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Leads the project team to execute projects on schedule, at or below budget delivering the contracted scope of work to all applicable codes and standards.
- Key customer contact for assigned projects. Responsible for customer satisfaction. Maintain regular contact (verbal and written) with key customer representative(s) ensuring all key project events and issues are documented in writing.

**Manage project risks including**:

- Assessment and Identification of risks
- Develop and Implement Risk Mitigation Plan(s)
- Forecasting

**Project Planning**
- Develop suitable budget allocations for ATS labour and materials.
- Oversee project schedule development and identify all critical path activities.
- Conduct Initial Project Build Plan meeting
- Manage project resources. Ensures that adequate resources are assigned to all project tasks.

**Project financial management.**
- Working with the financial analyst, ensure all billings and invoicing is submitted on time.
- Ensure all project deliverables are accomplished and supporting documentation is prepared for each project milestone payment. Obtain necessary FAT, SAT any other customer approvals needed to enable on-time payment including Final payment and project closure.
- Project Forecasting - Prepare accurate financial and resource forecasts. Prepare reports as required by ATS Management.
- Elevate deficiencies to department managers or Program Manager.

**Team Leadership**:

- Holds team communications meetings on a regular basis.
- Encourages and mentors employees to ensure that the build team’s morale and efficiency is maintained at the highest level.
- Manage projects and project teams in accordance with all applicable ATS procedures. Ensure project teams follow the required procedures. Conduct regular team meetings and issue weekly project updates to the project team.
- Coordinate the post project employee assessment process.

**Compliance**:

- Demonstrate leadership in Health, Safety and Environment compliance.
- Hold team members accountable for health, safety and environmental compliance as part of the annual performance review process.
- Ensure that the requirements of the health, safety and environment management system are implemented and maintained.
- Ensure that appropriate equipment, materials and protective devices are provided and maintained in safe condition.

**Customer Relationship Management**:

- Customer Advocate
- Deliver maximum customer satisfaction
- Pro-actively handle customer concerns
- Elevate customer issues when required to the next level of ATS management
- Partnership with ATS account manager to manage the customer
- Assists Applications Engineering with preparing quotations and customer interaction.

**Management Reporting**:

- Attend the project status meeting as requested by the Program Manager and/or Director, Project Management.
- For larger programs, this position may report to a Program Manager.

**Project Change Management**:

- Track all contract changes and prepare CORs (Change Order Requests).
- Ensure customer caused / requested changes are executed by the team only after receipt of customer agreement.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**:

- Post
- secondary college diploma, engineering degree or equivalent, specializing in electronics, electrical, mechanical or controls engineering; Completion of or in the process of achieving the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is an asset.

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Engineering experience in the manufacturing industry relating to equipment assembly or high volume parts manufacturing an asset
- Must have a proven track record of providing positive leadership and coordination to a multi-disciplined project design and construction team.
- Must have acted in a leading role with a minimum of three years’ experience in a variety of projects/markets on a multidiscipline team.
- Must have a practical working knowledge of robots, PLC’s, instrumentation or other machine controls packages, sensors and pneuma