Job Description

HICO America, headquartered in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with facilities in Los Angeles, Greensburg, PA, and Memphis TN, is part of the Power Systems business unit, in the Industrial Performance Group of the Hyosung Corporation, a large publicly traded corporation based in Seoul, South Korea. HICO is an ISO 9001 and 14001 certified company, with primary business in power system products.

Manager or Director of Switchgear Execution

Experience Qualifications:

Minimum of five years managing High Voltage and Medium Voltage switchgear projects for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), Electric Utility, or Developer.

Educational Requirement:

Bachelor of Science in engineering, supply chain, or business from an accredited university.

Computer Skill Requirements:

SAP, Microsoft Office Suite Skills required with Advanced Knowledge working with Microsoft Xcel and Microsoft Teams/360.

Travel: 10%

Manage the Switchgear Product Execution PMO department. Provide tactical guidance and strategic leadership to the project management team executing all switchgear product-only orders including Gas Circuit Breakers, MV GIS and HV GIS.

Duties Include but are not limited to:

• Develop and evaluate current team of five project managers and coordinators
• Create process flow mapping to ensure consistency of execution across PM’s
• Responsible for revenue and margin goals for department
• Advise senior leadership on staffing requirements with future backlog
• Ensure continuous improvement feedback loop
• Directly manage several GIS and GCB to increase experience and acumen
• Travel to customer and project sites as required
• Develop relationships with customer alliance partners
• Acquire technical expertise with our switchgear product offerings

Ensure department executes their project work scopes according to following:

• Project budgetary performance of contractual scope of work obligations
• Submittal and schedule performance per contract and communication to customer stakeholders
• Customer perception and satisfaction
• Milestone and progress payment management and notification to HICO Accounting
• Warranty and MRO service level initial point of contact
• Responsible for estimating costs for HICO services with support from HICO Procurement
• Support review of final bid package as requested
• Attend project site and alliance meetings with customers as directed

Project leader regarding the customer and internal HICO stakeholders:

• Single POC (Point of Contact) with customer
• Management and communication of schedule to customers, suppliers, and HICO stakeholders
• Communication of contractual milestones to factory and internal stakeholders.
• Potential travel to Memphis transformer production facility or project/customer locations.
• Coordination and support design review meetings
• Report any planned budgetary deficit to internal HICO stakeholders and determine root cause
• Support HICO procurement functions for his/her assigned projects
• Manage scope and budget of services including assembly, oil, HICO field service technicians
• Control costs of HICO services and sub-contractors
• Request and execute changes orders as required.

HICO America provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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