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The Project Manager will be interacting and directing resources on projects involving the integration of Cognex designed solutions. Engaging within the pre-sales phase of potential project lifecycle’s, you’ll be responsible to prepare accurately, assess risks, and subsequently deliver the hottest technology in this market, ensuring we meet customer expectations for quality, delivery, and service, while delivering Cognex high standards for growth and profitability.\nEssential Functions:\nActively plan, organize, and align resources, both internal and external, in a cost-effective manner to win and execute against the project schedule.\nMaintain and develop effective relationship with customers both pre- and post-sale.\nDevelop project schedules and track project progress against milestones while ensuring timely communications to internal and external stakeholders on project status.\nIdentify, create simple, and track complex documented scope. Communicate scope changes to all key stakeholders, ensuring that project completion and customer acceptance is achieved, via all providers to the project\nManage all project documentation through the lifecycle including providing all details on documentation to either the service team or customer to set them up for success.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nSolid experience or familiarity with Project management processes and PMI standards\nPossesses strong written and verbal communication skills and someone who exhibits solid customer relationship maintenance skills with the ability to influence, through facts and fast action.\nSolid knowledge and understanding of appropriate industry segment and automation technology including the knowledge of design for the manufacturability, assembly, test and manufacturing test development on industrial, electro-mechanical products.\nSolid interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate, collaborate, and influence both internal and external stakeholders to achieve project objectives.\nPossesses strong time management and organizational skills to manage multiple projects with quality and efficiently in a dynamic, fact-based fast paced environment\nSolid understanding of complicated data analysis theory, project cost estimation, and profitability analysis.\nCapable of planning difficult schedules by breaking down tasks in efforts to avoid scope creep\nSolid decision making and problem-solving skills with the ability to sort through competing priorities, anticipate and manage risks, an develop effective mitigation plans to produce effective solutions in unexpected situations.\nSolid understanding of business process, order proceeding and basic project-finance knowledge.\nAbility to handle routine customer situations and has the proper discernment to escalate when necessary.\nExperienced using Project Management tools such as Microsoft Projects\nAbility to rapidly learn new technology and understand new markets\nMinimum Education and Work Experience Required:\nBA degree in a technical discipline(preferred) or relevant equivalent professional experience\nTypically requires a minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a project manager within the service high-tech industry or for projects in a related field\nAbility to be on-call and respond to customer emergencies. Availability to work evening and weekend hours or varying work patterns depending on project needs.\nAbility to travel between 20-50% of the time. Travel will vary depending on region, time of year, and customer needs.\nMust possess English language proficiency as a minimum for the role. \nCertifications related to Project Management are preferred (PMP, CSCP, etc.)\nSalary Range: An estimate of the base salary range for this role is $74,000 - $100,000 USD Annual. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. 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