Project Manager
Summary
Oversee cross-functional projects for a life-safety product company, coordinating engineering, compliance, and operations to deliver fire suppression solutions on time and within scope.
Join Us as a Project Manager at Potter Global Technologies
At Potter Global Technologies, we’ve been protecting lives around the world for over 125 years—and we’re just getting started. We’re a global leader in life safety solutions, committed to saving lives through innovative technology and trusted partnerships.
Our vision is for our customers to know us globally as their innovative, easy-to-do-business-with, best-in-class life-safety product partner. And our mission? With a passion for creating safer environments worldwide, our mission is to provide our customers with a team of real people that connect them with reliable expertise in life safety applications.
If you're inspired by purpose, energized by collaboration, and thrive in an environment of feedback, ownership, and experimentation—you’ll feel at home here.
As a Project Manager, you will play a key role in driving the successful execution of cross-functional product development, engineering, and strategic initiatives that support the growth of our Fire Suppression division. Our team is looking for someone who is highly organized, proactive, and energized by managing multiple priorities while collaborating with cross-functional teams to keep projects moving forward. In this role, you will lead projects from concept through completion by coordinating schedules, managing project scope, identifying and mitigating risks, and ensuring clear communication among stakeholders to deliver projects on time and aligned with business objectives.
What You’ll Do
- Lead cross-functional technical, compliance, and strategic projects from initiation through closeout.
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, resources, and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, work breakdowns, action logs, decision logs, and documentation.
- Coordinate activities across Engineering, Product Management, Compliance, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and Finance.
- Facilitate kickoffs, project reviews, status meetings, and decision forums; publish actions and due dates.
- Track progress against schedule, quality, and launch commitments and drive corrective action.
- Identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, constraints, and escalations.
- Control project changes and assess impacts to scope, schedule, cost, quality, and compliance.
- Ensure adherence to product development, stage-gate, quality system, documentation, and approval requirements.
- Coordinate with all functions on cost, capital equipment, tooling, suppliers, testing, certification, and launch planning.
- Coordinate with respective functions on prototypes, pilot builds, verification, certification testing, and production readiness.
- Communicate status, risks, decisions, financials, and resource needs along with Product Management to stakeholders and leadership.
- Partner with functional managers to secure resources, balance priorities, and resolve conflicts.
- Support supplier, customer, and external partner interactions as required.
- Lead lessons learned and continuous improvement of project management processes.
- Take on additional responsibilities as needed to support team goals and project milestones.