Project Manager Internal

TekWissen LLC

Alpharetta, GA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$37.50–$39.28
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Marketing, Budget Management, Capital Project, Cargo/Freight, Communication Skills, Cost Control, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems, Diversity, Documentation, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Feasibility Analysis, Freight Forwarding, Healthcare, Healthcare Providers, Heavy Equipment/Vehicles, Insurance, Logistics, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Marine Cargo, Medical Imaging, Multitasking, Network Routers, Organizational Skills, Performance Management, Problem Solving Skills, Project Execution, Project Management Certification, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Planning, Project Schedule, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Purchasing/Procurement, Quality Metrics, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Requirements, Risk Management, SAP ECC (fka SAP R/3 and SAP ERP), Safety Compliance, Safety Training, Salesforce.com, Supply Chain, Third-Party Logistics (3PL), Transportation Planning, Transportation Regulations, Transportation Routing, Warehousing, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Alpharetta, GA
POSTED
2 days ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The opportunity below is with one of our clients, a leading global medical technology company. This organization provides a wide range of diagnostic imaging and laboratory diagnostics, as well as advanced therapies and digital health services. Its solutions span prevention and early detection through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care, empowering healthcare providers worldwide.
Job Title: Project Manager Internal
Location: Alpharetta, GA 30022
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Shift: 8:00AM to 5:00PM
Job Description:
  • The Transportation Project Manager will oversee the end to end planning, coordination, and execution of over dimensional freight, heavy loads, and complex transportation projects.
  • This role is responsible for ensuring safe, compliant, and cost effective delivery of critical equipment through close coordination with internal stakeholders, logistics providers, carriers, and regulatory authorities.
  • The ideal candidate combines strong project management skills with deep knowledge of heavy haul transportation, special handling requirements, and regulatory compliance across domestic and international freight movements.
Key Responsibilities:
Project & Transportation Management:
  • Plan, coordinate, and manage end to end transportation projects involving over dimensional, overweight, and high value freight
  • Develop detailed transportation execution plans, including routing, mode selection, scheduling, warehousing/storage, and risk mitigation
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for transportation project execution from origin through final delivery
Heavy Haul & Special Handling:
  • Coordinate heavy lift, heavy haul, and special handling requirements, including cranes, rigging, escorts, and specialized equipment
  • Ensure compliance with local, state, federal, and international permits, regulations, and safety requirements
  • Manage routing surveys, feasibility studies, and engineering input as required for complex moves
Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination:
  • Collaborate with internal teams (proposal and project management teams, manufacturing, and procurement) to align transportation plans with overall project schedules
  • Select, manage, and oversee transportation providers, freight forwarders, carriers, and third party logistics partners
Cost, Performance & Risk Management:
  • Identify and mitigate transportation risks related to scheduling, safety, compliance, and cost related concerns.
  • Monitor budgets, track transportation costs, and identify cost saving opportunities
  • Resolve delivery issues, delays, or disruptions while maintaining project timelines
Compliance & Documentation:
  • Ensure all required transportation documentation is accurate and complete (letters of credit, permits, customs, insurance, bills of lading, etc.)
  • Adhere to client Smart Infrastructure policies, quality standards, and EHS requirements
You ll win us over by having the following qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
  • 4-year bachelor s degree or equivalent years of experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or a related field
  • 3+ years of experience in transportation project management, heavy haul, or special freight operations
  • Proven experience managing over dimensional and overweight shipments
  • Strong understanding of transportation regulations, permitting, and compliance requirements
  • Experience working with freight forwarders, carriers, and heavy haul providers
  • Excellent communication, coordination, and organizational skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently in a fast paced environment
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 4-year bachelor s degree specifically in: supply chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in transportation project management, heavy haul, or special freight operations
  • Experience supporting industrial, infrastructure, energy, or large capital projects
  • Knowledge and familiarity with domestic and international transportation (road, rail, port, and ocean freight)
  • Project management certification (PMP or similar)
  • Experience working in a global organization
  • Proficiency in SAP or other ERP systems
  • Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM systems
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/