Director - Design Project Management

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The Director of Design Project Management is responsible for leading the Design Project Management organization and ensuring successful execution of Stellar Energy projects from contract award through engineering completion. This role provides leadership, direction, and oversight to a team of Design Project Managers (DPMs) and is accountable for engineering project execution, schedule performance, resource utilization, project controls, risk management, and customer satisfaction.

The Director of Design Project Management establishes project execution standards, drives engineering predictability, manages project performance metrics, and ensures projects are executed on time, within budget, and in accordance with customer requirements and company standards. This position serves as a critical link between Engineering, Project Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Executive Leadership to ensure alignment and successful business outcomes.

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of Design Project Managers responsible for the execution of Stellar Energy projects.

• Own engineering project execution performance across the project portfolio, ensuring delivery commitments are met for scope, schedule, budget, and quality.

• Establish and maintain project execution standards, processes, tools, and best practices across the Design Project Management organization.

• Drive accountability for project planning, schedule development, resource forecasting, and execution performance.

• Provide oversight of project schedules and ensure Design Project Managers maintain integrated project schedules utilizing Microsoft Project.

• Ensure project baselines are established and maintained for scope, schedule, cost, and resource commitments.

• Implement and drive project controls processes including earned value management (EVM), schedule performance measurement, cost performance tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Monitor project portfolio health and proactively identify risks, constraints, and resource conflicts that could impact project execution.

• Drive corrective actions and recovery plans for projects experiencing schedule, budget, quality, or resource challenges.

• Ensure Design Project Managers perform critical path analysis and maintain accurate schedule logic, dependencies, and engineering milestones.

• Lead portfolio reviews and provide executive-level reporting on engineering project performance, risks, resource requirements, and forecasted outcomes.

• Drive engineering resource planning and capacity management to ensure proper allocation of engineering personnel across projects.

• Partner with Engineering Operations, Chief Engineers, and Functional Engineering Leaders to balance workload and optimize engineering productivity.

• Develop and maintain engineering execution metrics including on-time delivery, schedule adherence, engineering productivity,…