Project Manager I

Element is seeking a motivated Project Manager to support our Defense / Commercial / Nuclear Product Qualification and Test (PQT) projects as part of the Element Huntsville team. This role supports our EMI, Environmental and Dynamics Departments. The role includes planning and coordinating successful projects and ensuring projects are completed within the specified timeframes, budgets, and quality standards. The ideal candidate is an extremely consistent communicator, detail-oriented and organized, eager to learn, and capable of managing multiple project timelines while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Help Element Make Tomorrow Safter Than Today and assist our customers in bringing exciting advanced new products to market.

Salary: $60,000 - $70,000/yr DOE 

 -Initial Customer Contact and kickoff meeting scheduling- Confirming project documentation and test readiness is Correct for Success- Facilitating resolutions to questions from both internal and external parties and getting the correct information to the appropriate groups- Maintaining easily accessible and detailed status of all assigned projects- Communicating with Customers and Element engineers and Department Managers about status updates, project scope changes.- Tracking completion of PO items and submitting invoices via our internal systems, communicating to customers about these invoices and working with internal Accounts Receivable personnel about unpaid invoices.- Ensure deliverables (reports) were delivered to customers in accordance with needs- Submitting after project customer satisfaction surveys to customers- Potential for learning the procurement process and entering purchase orders for your own or other's projects

- Communications excellence - You must regularly stay in touch with multiple customers and relay and record communications from all parties, internal and external.- A Team Player Attitude - If one PM is out of the office and their customer needs something urgent, there should be no issues in stepping in to assist that customer. The same would be done for you during vacation or PTO times.- Strong Email and Organizational Skills - Including Online Meeting Scheduling, summarizing meetings, and keeping various groups informed of status and what is required of them.- Strong Time Management Skills - Multiple projects are in various states of execution simultaneously- A Desire to Understand the Product Testing Business -- A 4 Year Degree in a Technical or Business field. Although engineering is not a requirement, we find the best candidates have engineering educations but prefer engineering adjacent business-related careers.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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