Director, Project Management

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.