Project Manager

• Lead cross-functional project teams across Banjo and KZValve to plan, execute, and deliver projects that drive new product development and profitable growth
• Develop and manage project plans, including scope, timelines, resource allocation, and budgets, ensuring project execution from initiation through completion
• Create clear, consistent communication frameworks to ensure alignment across customers, product management, engineering, and internal stakeholders, providing transparency on progress, risks, and changes
• Coordinate closely with sponsor customers and internal teams to deliver projects that meet customer requirements while supporting business objectives
• Implement and standardize project management processes, tools, and best practices across the Agriculture Group to enable repeatable, scalable execution
• Oversee and coordinate broader project management initiatives ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and processes
• Leverage project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, and O365 to enhance visibility, collaboration, and execution efficiency
• Operate as a highly engaged partner to the business, supporting strategic initiatives and reinforcing the Agriculture Group’s commitment to new product development

• Coordinate between Valmont and customers regarding requests for quotations, order acceptance and processing, accurate pricing, margins, price and delivery negotiations, and quote/order issues
• Report to a Project Administrator Supervisor or Manager and collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Drafting, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Manufacturing, Production Control, Purchasing, Shipping, Traffic, Accounting, Certifications, and remote manufacturing locations
• Process quotes and orders timely, monitor their flow through departments, and expedite when required
• Maintain understanding of quote and order entry systems and process/procedure changes
• Build and manage front-end project schedules so production facilities receive work timely
• Establish working relationships with Valmont manufacturing plants
• Resolve internal and external problems
• Verify orders against quote and contract documents; enter, schedule, and communicate order progress
• Maintain customer master files for assigned accounts
• Handle order processing, purchase-order term comparisons, contract review, order costing, expediting, customer complaints, and product liabilities
• Maintain information flow between company departments and external contacts
• Calculate margins and commissions and determine manufacturing sites
• Provide production control input for scheduling and information to Engineering and Drafting
• Use drafting systems to determine production part numbers for new orders and ship shortages
• Provide Sales with feedback on territories and customer orders
• Carry out special assignments requested by the Manager or PA Supervisor

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Project Manager

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