Project Manager - Custom Studio 431 Job at Landscape Forms in Kalamazoo

Currently seeking a Project Manager to join our highly collaborative, fast-paced customs team. Studio 431 is a design-focused business that works as a thought partner with world-class landscape architects, architects, and industrial designers to create high-visibility, custom-branded environments. Apply today if you enjoy managing technical projects of varying complexity and magnitude.

Close internal collaboration with Business Development, Estimating, Customer Service, Engineering, Manufacturing, Scheduling, and Supply Chain Management is required to define & manage project schedules and budgets. We pride ourselves on provided world class communication with clients, contractors, and end users. Relationship building is a key strategy for this role as it will take a high level of collaboration with internal departments as well as various customer types. This individual will be part of a cross-functional team, help resolve design criteria and project issues, responsible for project schedules and any technical problems that may arise.

Benefits: Landscape Forms takes pride in offering a competitive benefits package including, but not limited to, insurance benefits (available your first day), 401(k), family and parenting leaves, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, quarterly bonuses, and paid time off. This is a hybrid position, allowing you to work from home and in the office, you may be required to work in a noisy or hot environment and around moving machinery.

How You Contribute:

• Manage projects from purchase order to completion. Articulating project objectives, facilitating teams to develop project work breakdown structure, reinforcing client/project priorities, and identifying cross-discipline gaps.
• Provide excellent communication for owned projects and proactively keep leadership informed (scheduling meetings, compiling/distributing notes, tracking action items, ensuring follow-through on milestone deliverables, etc.)
• Collaborate with engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing to determine project schedules and maintain adherence to established milestones
• Catalog and maintain all project documentation and deliverables
• Document and process project change proposals and change orders
• Lead project team(s) through tactical and strategic issues, and alternative solutions in an expedient and decisive manner
• Develop strong knowledge of Landscape Forms business strategy and operations process
• Lead by example, visibly and consistently employing our corporate values

Criteria for Success:

This role requires an upbeat and positive attitude, and a willingness to work a flexible schedule in a fast-paced and every changing environment. Proven history demonstrating initiative and self-direction. Excellent people and engagement skills. Positive and creative approach to problem-solving. Open to continual learning to operate in a competitive manufacturing environment.

• Bachelor's Degree in the functional area of Manufacturing, Engineering, Process Planning, or Business.
• Three to five years of demonstrated success managing projects in construction or related industry is preferred.
• Experience in reading and working with construction documents is strongly preferred.
• Must be proficient in computer applications, project management, and business practices.
• Must be able to analyze data, solve problems with many variables, and apply common sense.
• This person must possess a high level of communication both verbally and with detailed written reports for a variety of disciplines.
• This position must be skilled in both verbal and written presentations.
• This position must possess a higher level of communication and reasoning ability, as they are required to work with a variety of disciplines and/or customers.

Who We Are:

Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated solutions of high-design site furniture and advanced LED lighting. For more than 50 years we have produced site furnishings that help designers and other clients achieve beautiful, functional environments that enhance the experience of outdoor space. Our secret is simple. Design, Culture, and Craft drive everything we do.