Automation, Benchmarking, Best Practices, Billing, Budgeting, Change Management, Compensation Analysis, Computer Science, Contact Management, Continuous Improvement, Contract Management, Contract Requirements, Cost Control, Cost Forecasting, Customer Relations, Distribution Services, English Language, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Financial Management, Heavy Equipment/Vehicles, Industry Standards, Leadership, Legal, Logistics, Negotiation Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Development, Project Development, Project Planning, Project/Program Management, Quality Metrics, Resolve Customer Issues, Resource Management, Risk, Risk Management, Safety/Work Safety, Sales, Sales Support, Shipping/Receiving, Sustainability, Team Player, Time Management, Willing to Travel, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Writing Skills
At Kalmar, we are moving goods in critical supply chains around the world. As the forerunner in sustainable material handling equipment and services, we set the industry benchmark for a zero-emission future. We are driven by teamwork, innovation, and taking ownership to deliver results. With our global reach and local expertise, our success starts with a strong focus on the customer, ensuring their needs guide our daily work. We are dedicated to respecting others and fostering an inclusive culture where all voices are heard, empowering us to succeed together. With us, your work has an impact. Your work moves the world!
Join us and take your career to the next level
Kalmar is looking for a driven Project Manager to join our Automation Solution Services division. In this critical role, you will lead and manage customer solution projects, ensuring they are delivered within agreed timescales, budgets, and quality standards to resolve key customer and business needs.
Compensation Data
- Base Salary: $123k
- Eligible for Annual Bonus
- Eligible for Annual Salary Review & Merit Increase
What are your key responsibilities:
- Project Leadership: Lead assigned global project teams in Kalmar Process Automation to meet scope, budget, schedule, deliverables, and quality goals according to customer contracts.
- Financial & Resource Management: Maintain financial responsibility for project margins, forecasting costs, managing the WBS structure model, and ensuring on-time invoicing and payments.
- Customer Relations: Manage customer contacts, communication, negotiations, and relationship building while ensuring alignment with Kalmar's expectations.
- Planning & Execution: Prepare comprehensive project plans, establish technical and contractual requirements, and coordinate necessary resources for successful execution.
- Risk & Safety Management: Proactively handle change management, identify and mitigate project risks, and ensure health and safety protocols are strictly followed.
- Sales & Continuous Improvement: Provide sales support during the project sales phase, collect lessons learned, and share insights globally to continuously develop project management best practices.
What we offer you:
"Green business is good business - it's not just a slogan; we're investing in fossil-free steel and real change."
- Rewards that truly count: We offer meaningful development opportunities through varied assignments, fair and gender-neutral pay, and flexible working conditions - all within a culture that values your growth and celebrates success.
- Competitive Benefits: Medical, Dental and Vision coverage are effective day one of employment; flexible spending account, company paid Short- and Long-term disability coverage; company paid life insurance policy (2X's annual salary up to $200k); options for additional life insurance coverage for employee, spouse and dependents at affordable rates; safe harbour 401K plan with company match of 6% (no vesting)
- Work-Life Balance: Our generous time-off policy includes vacation time, personal/sick time, paid/floating holidays, and paid parental leaves, supporting a healthy balance between your professional and personal life.
- Safety that moves us forward: Build your career with a company rooted in safety since the 1940s, ensuring stability and an environment that empowers you to speak and be heard.
- Purpose that drives change: You'll contribute to solutions that transform global trade, creating environmental and operational innovations. You'll be in the driver's seat of ideas, developing digital technologies that set industry standards and position us as the forerunner.
- People who move together: You'll collaborate with people who build lasting relationships through global expertise, connections, and a commitment to sustainability.
Become part of our global network of 5,200 professionals across 120+ countries, where your work drives innovation, sustainability, and meaningful impact around the world.
What you bring to the role:
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, alongside fluency in written and spoken English.
- Industry Experience: Proven experience in project management and product development, with a strong background working in the Container Terminal industry and handling large, complex international delivery projects.
- Leadership & Mindset: Strong leadership and management capabilities with an ability to motivate and inspire teams, combined with a business, market, and customer-focused mindset.
- Communication & Problem Solving: Excellent written and oral presentation skills, a proactive, self-driven attitude, and the ability to effectively interact with customers and resolve complex issues.
- Legal & Contractual Knowledge: Basic commercial and business knowledge, including a strong understanding of legal and contractual requirements in project delivery.
- Availability & Safety Commitment: Flexibility to travel internationally and locally between 20% and 30% of the time, along with a strong awareness and adherence to safety protocols to ensure a secure work environment for yourself and your colleagues.
Ready to elevate your career? Apply today!
We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, and the position will be filled as soon as the most suitable candidate is identified.
Please note that we do not accept referrals through our job advertisements from external agencies.
For more information about this role, contact Brandy Besedich, CDR- Talent Acquisition Partner via email Brandy.Besedich@kalmarglobal.com
About Kalmar
Kalmar (Nasdaq Helsinki: KALMAR) is moving goods in critical supply chains around the world, with the vision to be the forerunner in sustainable material handling equipment and services. The company offers a wide range of industry shaping heavy material handling equipment and services to ports and terminals, distribution centres, manufacturing and heavy logistics. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Kalmar operates globally in over 120 countries and employs approximately 5,300 people. In 2025, the company's sales totalled approximately EUR 1.7 billion. www.kalmarglobal.com