[Hiring] Project Manager @STOW Group

Role Description

The PROJECT MANAGER is an integral person in helping our customer’s vision for an automated storage solution from Movu US come to life. The core objective is to execute sold projects within the set timelines and budget. Oftentimes, there’s close collaboration with the assigned Racking Project Manager from stow US.

Solutions: Fully automated storage solutions including pallet shuttles (atlas), tote shuttles (eScala), as well as automated mobile robots (iFollow) and ancillary systems such as conveyors and lifts.

Customers: End users are located throughout the United States and Canada. We work with many of the leading integrators as our Sales partners.

Typical project size: 1-40M

• Lead the handoff from Sales and Sales Engineering and conduct internal and customer kickoff meetings
• Serve as the customer’s single point of contact throughout the project
• Define project roles, communications, meeting cadence, and escalation paths
• Own the integrated schedule across engineering, procurement, delivery, installation, controls, commissioning, customer activities, and acceptance
• Create material and delivery schedules aligned with the project and customer timelines
• Proactively communicate progress, risks, roadblocks, recovery plans, and solutions
• Own project financials, purchasing, change orders, and milestone invoicing
• Coordinate procurement, delivery, installers, and contractors for safe, on-time execution
• Confirm site readiness, interfaces, access, utilities, and installation requirements
• Align customers and integrators on the plan, responsibilities, risks, and decisions
• Maintain project controls, mitigate risks, and drive actions and recovery to closure
• Coordinate site readiness, safety, contractors, materials, progress, and issues with the Site Manager
• Lead technical resolution through the appropriate experts without assuming specialist duties
• Lead installation through commissioning, acceptance, and Service handover with cross-functional support
• Build trust through clear communication, timely decisions, ownership, and follow-through
• Close punch-list, documentation, commercial, and handover items; capture lessons learned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a directly relatable position
• Experience with the complexities of executing multimillion-dollar custom warehouse systems projects from A-Z is required
• Bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required
• PMP certification is preferred but not required
• SAP knowledge is beneficial
• Travel throughout North America to customer sites, 30-75% across the year; varying based on the project phase
• Regular travel to our office in Romeoville to work closely with Engineering and Management (20-30% depending on project travel requirements)
• On rare occasion, travel to our headquarters in Belgium (possibly once a year for no more than 2 weeks)
• Morning hours are important to connect with European colleagues while our business hours overlap across time zones

Benefits

• 20 days PTO, 5 days paid sick leave, 11 US paid holidays
• Medical (currently BlueCross BlueShield), Dental and Vision Insurance, including Family coverage, all currently 90% Company paid
• Company paid Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Company Paid Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• 401K with employer match, currently 4%
• Partial Tuition Reimbursement after 12 months

Company Description

The warehouse of the future is equipped with our autonomous robots instead of forklifts and our Atlas 2D pallet shuttles or tote shuttles that allow for high-density storage (no wasted space).

As part of stow Group which has a 40 year history, we’ve grown into a company with 10 manufacturing facilities, 19 commercial offices, and the know-how of around 2000 employees serving customers in 40 countries.

Early 2021, we opened our US Office in Romeoville, IL and have since grown to over 70 people. It's exciting times to be at Movu! (pronounced Mow-voo)