**Overview** Element has an opportunity for a **Project Manager** . This role is a key function in servicing our clients by ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to their demands, delivering efficient and excellent performance. Manages a book of active, customer projects that may consist of short-term, transactional work, mid-term testing projects, and long-term, complex projects. Ensures projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within scope with the goal of compressing the project life cycle (from New to Complete as quickly as possible) and delivering the project to the customer expectations while minimizing the cost to complete the project. Provides the level of engagement as required by type of project and specific customer to ensure the customer’s needs and expectations are met. Has a high focus on customer engagement and on creating a positive customer experience. **Responsibilities** Manages, plans, and controls individual projects through their entire life cycle from new to completion. Must move projects from initiation to closing as quickly as possible while keeping costs at or below quoted amount. Takes complete ownership of projects within the assigned book of business. Ownership entails: + Focusing on delivering business value to Element and our customers, + Fulfilling our commitments and customer needs, + Understanding project success means ensuring the project is completed on-time, within budget and within scope, + Responsible for ensuring project-related tasks are completed including outsourced, supplier-based tasks, + Engaging and communicating immediately with stakeholders regarding anything impacting project success, + Holding other stakeholders (ex. Department Managers, technicians, etc.) accountable to deliver their portion of the project, + Planning to meet project goals given any constraints, + Ensuring scheduling meets customer needs and expectations, + Coordinating the flow of work through the facility with Customers and Department Managers, + Implementing corrective actions when projects become distressed, + Consistently using the best practices of project management + Establishing collaborative and mutually supportive relationship with those responsible for operations, + Striving to make operations successful + Skills in prescribed internal tools for full scheduling, ERP, and MS Office skills **Skills / Qualifications** + AA Degree; BA/BS preferred or equivalent industry experience + 3-6 years testing or technical customer service experience. Project management experience required + Self-supervision of projects even with high PM volume and implementing corrective actions. + May require supervision for solving complex problems + Ensures projects are completed on-time, within budget, and within scope + Monitors budgets weekly + Attempts to compress schedule to maximize company utilization including leveraging the full network of company facilities + Identifies and works to mitigate all suspected future budget overruns before the overrun is reached + Manages projects to prevent downbooks + Follows best practices and procedures in managing book of active projects + Builds productive internal and external working relationships + Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action + Proactively manages planned and unplanned subcontracted work including negotiating pricing, setting expectations with the subcontractor, and monitoring subcontractor progress + Manages budgets to ensure accuracy + Processes all material receipts and balances budgets of all projects weekly + Scope of work may be non-routine for the facility + Able to manage change of scopes + Able to identify the opportunity to upsell services via COS such as Expedite, Unique Test Services, Test Procedures, etc. + Typically, engages with the customer more as the complexity of the projects increase + Strong knowledge of facility’s core business (ex: Environmental testing, Dynamics testing, EMC testing, etc.) + Advanced Skills in prescribed internal tools for full scheduling, ERP, and MS Office skills \#LI-TF1 **Company Overview** 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. **Diversity Statement** 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. **Job Locations** _US-CA-Fremont_ **ID** _2025-15435_