Director Project Management Office

Astec is a global, environmentally focused infrastructure and manufacturing company of asphalt road building and aggregate processing. Our mission is to design and build the most innovative products for the industries we serve. Leveraging innovative solutions and technologies, we serve customers all over the world.

The Director of the Project Management Office (PMO) is the senior leader responsible for leading, establishing, scaling, and governing the company's project, program, and portfolio management capabilities. This role ensures that all key operational and strategic initiatives are executed with discipline, transparency, and measurable business impact. The Director leads the PMO team, sets enterprise project standards, and ensures focus on critical cross-functional organizational strategic objectives.

This position will lead and develop Program Managers and their project teams in the areas of Business Operations, Manufacturing Operations, New Product Development, and large customer order projects, ensuring they align with Astec strategic plans and initiatives.

• Define and implement the enterprise PMO governance framework, including methodologies, standards, and reporting structures.
• Partner with senior leadership to prioritize the strategic project portfolio and ensure alignment with corporate goals.
• Serve as the enterprise authority on project execution, risk management, and escalation pathways.
• Oversee all major cross-functional programs, including operational excellence, digital transformation, capacity expansion, new product development, and large ETO orders.
• Guide and support the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) members in the development and management of Strategic Business Plans (SBP) and associated projects.
• Ensure that projects are proceeding according to milestones, meeting targets and expectations, and adhering to established operating parameters; negotiates changes in project resources and focus as necessary to achieve objectives and timelines.
• Responsible for the development of KPIs to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against budgets, plans, and strategic objectives.
• Improve project delivery performance - on-time, on-budget, and within scope - through coaching, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Establish PMO processes for intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and change control.
• Drive consistent use of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid) based on project type.
• Organize cross-functional input (ex., Engineering, Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing) for all strategic projects, ensuring key stakeholders have alignment and agreement on strategic projects.
• Develop and execute cadenced project communications (project status, action items, achievements, risks) to ensure transparency of, and accountability to, the project plans.
• Lead the development and ongoing management of the site and group level Strategic Program (Project) Management portfolio. Facilitate and implement project rankings systems based on identified business criteria.
• Commitment to consistently adhere to Astec's core values, mission statement and vision statement.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in an Operations, Engineering, or other technical discipline and 10+ years of directly related experience. A Master's Degree in business is highly desirable.
• Expert level of Project Management tools and techniques;
  Current PMI certification highly desirable (PMP, OTI, PgMP, SCRUM).
• Superior analytical, problem identification, and problem resolution skills.
• Experience in Organizational Change Management (OCM).
• Ability to have critical conversations with, and hold…