Director, Project Management
Job Location:
Grand Rapids, MI - USA
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Job Summary
We offer:
What we offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
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Global Opportunities
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $180000 - $210000 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:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Construction Management Business or related field (Masters 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.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.
