Senior Project Manager

FLANDERS PMO (Project Management Office) is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join the team! This role will focus on the planning, executing, and monitoring/controlling project management methodologies. Projects assigned to this position will be manufactured/remanufactured products, engineered products, innovation pipeline projects, corporate strategic initiatives, and other Business Optimization projects.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Leads project teams through development of a detailed project schedule by identifying linkages, critical paths, task ownership, and resource conflicts. Analyzes the plan and challenges the team to expedite or parallel path activities to speed time to delivery.

• Proactively leads teams to identify and communicate key issues / risks and develop contingency plans to address them. Leverage team's experience to deliver efficient, effective, and innovative solutions.

• Enables successful motor manufacturing/repair/remanufacturing and delivery by understanding, coordinating, and communicating effectively with customers, sales, business development, engineering, supply chain, finance, and other internal Remanufacturing Centers on both global and regional levels.

• Serves as a central hub for communications of project plans, status and issues. Prepares reports and assessments to assist the Operations Managers and/or gatekeepers in decision-making regarding project priorities, resources, and budgets.

• Partners with Supply Chain and Engineering in the development of the scope of work and resource plans for assigned projects, identifies conflicting demands for resources, and works with Operations to resolve to maintain project timeline.

• Strengthen project team capability to overcome barriers in planning and execution through training, coaching, and implementing best practices for efficient and effective teamwork.

• Coaches project teams to follow best practices, standard operating procedures and process methodologies, and complete appropriate documentation. Adheres to project management principles, processes and methodologies as defined by the Project Management Office.

• Provides status updates and portfolio visibility to key stakeholders (internal and external), functional leaders, and department coordinators.

• Measures and communicates results for project execution and team effectiveness against agreed scope and success criteria. Works with team and customers/suppliers to close gaps between current and desired results.

• Collaborates through the Project Management Office and Community of Practice to create and implement new approaches to enhance project execution capabilities and improve speed to delivery.

• Partners with operations to identify and suggest solutions to project interdependencies that achieve business objectives and maximize efficiency of resources.

• Archives key project documentation for project performance measurement and sharing lessons learned with other project teams.
• Able to work and manage using internal policies, procedures and processes, and ability to challenge them when and where appropriate. Adherence to all quality processes, safety procedures and use proper safety equipment including, but not limited to eye, ear, and hand protection.

Requirements:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Management or related field required and at minimum 5 years of project management experience.

PMP certification required.

Experience:

• Five years of process and/or project leadership experience
• Five years of leadership/management experience.

Other:

• Experience influencing and managing project teams in matrix organizations.
• Experience managing a project budget.
• Strong critical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to multitask while coordinating multiple high-level priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks to meet timelines and deliverables.
• Strong communication, organizational and time management skills
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and problem solve.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise initiative, judgment, and decision making related to routine responsibilities.