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The role proactively identifies and escalates risks to customer commitments, project margin, cash flow, quality, safety, and contractual performance, and drives actions through resolution.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nParticipate in the review of project RFQ’s and provide input to project estimating as required.\nAttend project “kick off” meetings and ensure handover of all information from Sales to project management.\nDistribute customer’s specifications, standards, buy-off protocols, and other supporting documentation to team members.\nCreate and maintain project timing plan in MS project.\nEstablish project budget plan and manage project expenditure within agreed item values.\nReport budget and timing, actual and forecast to complete, and identify any areas of risk in a timely manner and escalate potential margin erosion, unapproved scope, schedule exposure, overdue customer decisions, and contractual risk.\nDefine mitigation actions, owners, and target dates, and escalate material risks through the applicable management process.\nIn coordination with Sales, Engineering, Legal, and Finance, identify scope changes, develop the technical and commercial basis for change requests, lead negotiations with the customer, obtain required internal approvals, and ensure authorized changes are reflected in the applicable purchase orders and project baseline.\nEnsure change requests are documented, commercially evaluated, approved, and incorporated into the customer purchase order before execution whenever practicable.\nWith input from engineering write specifications for third party services or scope of supply.\nReview supplier quotations against specification and make recommendations for selection\nArrange and manage; project review meetings, buy-off meetings, site visits and other meetings with the project team, customers, suppliers and affiliates.\nTake meeting minutes, create open issues lists and follow up on actions to get resolution.\nAct as the single point of communication between the customer and the project team.\nDistribute all current or relevant information to interested parties and maintain issue control.\nProvide manpower plan and regular updates to SIC field service coordinator and coordinate with affiliates and sub-contractors for additional manpower as required.\nCoordinate site set up, delivery and start of installation with customer, Schuler site manager and logistics dept.\nEnsure project activities are planned and executed in compliance with applicable EHS and company requirements, while coordinating with Site Management and the customer to address safety, quality, site-access, installation-readiness, nonconformity, and customer complaint issues through resolution.\nAttend site regularly to monitor progress and provide support to Schuler site manager, following up on any open issues as required.\nCreate requisition for materials/services that are needed on site/installation phase.\nFollow up on material arrival and manage requests to send the parts to the customer site.\nReview and approve vendor invoices and back-charges to the affiliate.\nManage buy-off process and obtain customer sign off.\nFollow up with accounting invoices to be issued to the customer and affiliates.\nCreate and maintain a punch list and close out open items in a timely manner.\nEnsure that all training, documentation, spare parts lists, warranty details etc. are complete and handed over to SIC service.\nMaintain a complete and current project record, including contract documents, approved scope, project baseline, purchase orders, change orders, meeting records, customer approvals, forecasts, acceptance records, and closeout documentation, in the designated company systems.\nAt the conclusion of each project conduct a TGR/TGW review and capture the learning\n\nJob Specific Competencies\n\nExperience with corporate business operations software is a must; 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