Director, Project Management

Senior leader responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex MHE projects, driving schedule, cost, quality, safety and customer satisfaction across multiple concurrent programs.

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• Career Development
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• Global Opportunities

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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $180,000 - $210,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

Core responsibilities:

• Own program delivery: lead planning, resourcing, budgeting, scheduling and execution for multiple, highcomplexity projects.
• Build and run repeatable execution models, playbooks and governance to standardize delivery and capture lessons learned.
• Lead and coach project managers, site leads and crossfunctional execution teams; set objectives, KPIs and career development.
• Ensure commercial performance: manage project P&L, change orders, claims and supplier performance.
• Risk & issue management: identify, mitigate and escalate critical risks; drive timely recovery plans.
• Stakeholder management: act as primary interface to customers, senior leadership and major suppliers; provide clear, timely reporting.
• Drive safety & quality: enforce safety, compliance and quality standards across sites.
• Continuous improvement: lead postproject reviews and apply learning curve gains to reduce engineering and PM effort on followons.
• Resource & supplier strategy: optimize internal and external capacity, prequalify vendors and secure critical longlead items.

Required qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related field (Master's preferred).
• 10+ years of project delivery experience, including 5+ years in a senior project leadership role.
• Proven track record delivering complex, multisite industrial projects (material handling equipment/automation experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrable experience managing multimillion dollar project portfolios and supplier networks.
• Strong financial acumen with experience owning project P&L and commercial negotiations.
• Certifications preferred: PMP, MBA

Key competencies & skills:

• Strategic leadership and peoplemanagement skills.
• Excellent stakeholder, negotiation and escalation management.
• Strong planning, scheduling and earnedvalue familiarity (MS Project, Primavera or equivalent).
• Datadriven decision making; uses KPIs and dashboards for performance management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable at executive and customer forums.
• Willingness to travel frequently to sites.

KPIs / success measures:

• Ontime delivery rate (projects completed to committed ROS).
• Budget performance (% projects within +/- target).
• Customer satisfaction / NPS for delivered sites.
• Safety performance (TRIR / recordable incidents).
• Change order rate and schedule growth (%).
• Reduction in engineering and PM hours on followon sites (learning curve gains).
• Supplier delivery reliability (OTD for longlead items).

Reporting & scope:

• Reports to Sr. Director of Project Execution
• Directs a team of project managers and site leads; dotted relationships with engineering, procurement, manufacturing and service functions.
• Responsible for a regional or global portfolio depending on company scale.

Nicetohave:

• Prior experience with Amazon or large ecommerce/3PL customers.
• Background in automation, controls and systems integration.
• Change management / transformation experience.