Program Manager

REPORTS TO:

VP, Operations and Program Management

Exempt

This role offers work from home flexibility while maintaining regular collaboration with onsite teams and customers as business needs require.

The Program Manager will oversee the strategic planning, execution and monitoring of related custom engineering and complex fabrication projects. In this collaborative program management role, you have a direct impact on the profits and losses and will drive excellence, integration, and improvement of project management and execution methods in the organization.

• Oversee program contract, scopes, budgets, reporting and assigned project managers and project coordinators to ensure project goals, timeframe, quality, and budgets are achieved.
• Monitor individual project progress, identify potential issues and coordinate necessary adjustments across projects within the program.
• Drive consistency in project execution using Project Management Excellence tools.
• Lead and manage project managers and project coordinators to ensure implementation of PME best practices and scheduling standards across all projects within a program.
• Take the initiative in identifying and implementing process improvements in project management best practices.
• Organize and develop project managers within the program to ensure customer needs and organizational requirements are met.
• Determine skills needs. Manage and assign resources as needed to support programs ranging from $3M to over $30M.
• Manage and maintain a productive and collaborative working relationship with customers.
• Communicate with customers as needed and step in when conflict resolution with customers or contract issues needs to be escalated to the next level of management.
• Oversee change management to ensure scope changes are accurately captured and implemented to ensure compensation and compliance within the contract.
• Take an active role in identifying risks and issues at both the program and project level to reduce schedule slips and/or cost overruns.
• Encourage collaboration across the organization to facilitate successful project execution, transparency, and problem solving.
• Actively support and promote values of the organization.

Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws. Includes training, coaching, appraising performance, mentoring, and developing assigned employees.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, science, business or other related technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in project management, program management or combination of both. 2+ years of project management responsibility in custom fabrication or equipment building environment. This experience should include the ability to interpret technical specifications, drawings and diagrams.
• Must have proven success managing complex projects/programs with budgets greater than US $10 million.
• Prefer experience with Government programs/projects and/or experience with nuclear or NQA-1 related programs/projects.

• Strong organizational skills and time-management with the ability to handle multiple assignments
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to effectively present project information including options, alternatives and recommendations to the customer
• Ability to manage teams through influence rather than absolute authority
• Ability to work with individuals and set KPIs as well as professional goals
• Willingness to provide resources for professional development and actively participate
• Attention to detail with the ability to define problems and collects data to overcome challenges
• Action oriented, independent leader with the ability to drive solutions and improve project performance with minimal supervision but knows when to elevate issues
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with all organization levels both internally and externally
• Effective communication skills and the ability to communicate complex issues across the organization and to senior management
• Change…