Integration Specialist (PR26114)

• Analyze business unit needs to mitigate integration and major subcontracting supply and delivery risk, recommend appropriate solutions, implement as approved

• Develop and recommend optimal integration and major subcontracting supplier selection criteria

• Manage qualifications and performance evaluation of integrators and major subcontractors

• Lead the process of development, revision control, and storage of a standard set of specifications for procurement of integration and subcontracting services, in collaboration with the BU engineering department

• Negotiate standard integration pricing matrix and lead-times with suppliers, not less than annually, and communicate to appropriate BU personnel

• Negotiate non-standard integration pricing, communicating with appropriate BU personnel as needed

• Identify and recommend integration and subcontracting service providers with optimal quality, cost, and delivery qualifications

• Identify opportunities to maximize savings integration and subcontracting services

• Drive continuous cost reduction via standard integration design

• Design, develop, and implement a tool for opportunity tracking status

• Track non-conformance reports and cost of quality at integrator and subcontractors, and lead supplier recovery activities

• Ensure timely resolution of all damage claims of integrator parts through collaboration with appropriate personnel

• Coordinate cross-functional project teams, including parent company resources and suppliers, for successful execution of integration scope for business unit projects, ensuring that company objectives are met

• Recommend and implement risk assessment and abatement plan to meet integration budgets, targets, and schedules

• Serve as single point of contact for BU personnel, integrators, and major subcontractors regarding pre-order commitments and post-order deliverables

• Provide timely updates on integrator and major subcontractor performance, integration processes, market trends, project status, and supplier relationships to management

• Identify opportunities and provide recommendations to management for improvements on project execution processes pertinent to major equipment suppliers in the integration chain

• Track and report status of integrator and major subcontractor milestones and report to project management as needed

• Evaluate committed dates for shipment and delivery, in collaboration with Project Manager, and communicate requirements to appropriate sourcing personnel

• Lead respective process component of first article inspection and client witness acceptance test as assigned

• Maintain current safety qualifications appropriate to the assigned tasks to adhere to Company, supplier, and client safety requirements

General Employee Accountabilities

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

• Give manager best advice

• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

• Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

• Recommend viable improvements proactively

• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Electronics, or related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 3 years’ experience in mechanical integration of AC and DC power control systems or equivalent equipment
• 3 years’ experience qualifying major sub-contractors
• 3 years’ project management experience in a technical environment
• 2 years’ experience participating in sales transaction process for equipment and/or services
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply knowledge of contract deliverables, terms and conditions, and guarantees
• Demonstrated success developing, implementing, measuring, and improving effective processes in functional areas
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Availability to travel, domestically, up to 50%, and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success leading matrix teams

• 5 years of project management experience, including capital and/or construction contracts in excess of $1M per contract

• 5 years of experience in contract negotiation for industrial equipment and services transactions

• Working knowledge of Oracle, Oracle Business Intelligence tools