Lead Project Manager

Job overview

The Lead Project Manager role is onsite in Phoenix, AZ. Compensation is not specified. Heitek Automation, a SunSource company, provides industrial automation components and integrated solutions to customers across multiple industries. The project manager coordinates customer projects from order receipt through final delivery, aligning customer expectations with engineering, purchasing, production, warehouse, and supplier activities. The role leads project staff, manages priorities and risks, and drives communication to support on-time, on-budget, and profitable completion.

What you'll do

• Coordinate customer project schedules and control-panel build activities
• track material readiness
• maintain change logs and open-issues matrices
• coordinate engineering releases and ERP production orders
• communicate production schedules and customer status
• coordinate material expediting and shipments
• close out projects
• assign projects and workloads to project managers
• coach and develop team members
• call project review meetings
• collaborate on production schedules
• escalate material shortages and engineering delays
• recommend production priorities
• hold departments accountable to milestones.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead project manager

heitek automation

sunsource

phoenix az

onsite

industrial automation

customer projects

project scheduling

control panel builds

cross-functional coordination

team leadership

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The role directly supervises and supports project managers and other assigned team members. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is listed, and PMP certification or equivalent is highly desirable.

About the employer

SunSource is hiring for this role. Industry: Electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers. Sector: 42.