Director Enterprise PMO

MHI

$125K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, or Project Management.
  • 10-15 years of experience in project, program, or PMO leadership for complex initiatives.
  • 5+ years of experience in leading PMO or project management teams preferred.
  • Experience in coaching and developing team members and building project management standards.
  • Industry experience in manufacturing, energy, or other asset-intensive sectors preferred.
  • PMP certification is preferred; other certifications like PgMP, Lean Six Sigma are a plus.
  • Proficiency in integrated planning, governance, and financial management.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing enterprise PMO team.
  • Continuously improve the PMO framework including standards and governance.
  • Lead large-scale transformation initiatives from definition to implementation.
  • Collaborate with executive sponsors and business leaders to define business cases and success measures.
  • Establish governance structures and operational cadences for decision-making.
  • Manage project health with disciplined controls over scope, schedule, and resources.
  • Integrate change management into project delivery and promote stakeholder readiness.

Benefits

  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision & 401K Matching.
  • Development programs and advancement opportunities.
  • Tuition reimbursement and on-the-job training.
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
  • Commitment to quality products and services.
  • Positive work environment and culture.
  • Employee appreciation programs and events.
Full Job Description
Director Enterprise PMO

Role Overview

The Director Enterprise PMO is responsible for building, leading, and continuously improving Power Generation's enterprise Project Management Office capability across PG and its Business Units. Reporting to the Head of Transformation & Continuous Improvement, this role manages a team of project management professionals responsible for PMO standards, governance, reporting, capability development, and direct delivery of large, complex enterprise transformation initiatives. The Director converts strategic priorities into executable programs, establishes clear operating cadence and decision forums, and ensures projects deliver measurable business value. Success requires strong leadership, executive communication, disciplined project delivery, and the ability to influence business units, functional teams, Digital and IT, and external partners.

Key Responsibilities
  • Demonstrates our core competencies: Action oriented, change champion, customer-focused, developing self & others, and ownership
  • Build, develop, and lead a high-performing PMO team responsible for enterprise project governance, standards, reporting, capability development, and strategic project execution.
  • Own and continuously improve the PMO framework, including methodology, governance, stage gates, standards, tools, templates, reporting, training, and maturity development.
  • Lead large, complex cross-functional transformation initiatives from definition through implementation, stabilization, transition, and benefits realization.
  • Partner with executive sponsors, business owners, Business Units, functional leaders, Digital and IT, and external partners to define business cases, scope, outcomes, decision rights, resources, and measures of success.
  • Establish governance and operating cadence through steering committees, decision forums, escalation paths, action tracking, issue resolution, and executive decision support.
  • Manage project health through disciplined controls for scope, schedule, budget, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, constraints, and changes.
  • Provide portfolio and project visibility through executive dashboards, status reports, business reviews, decision papers, health metrics, and recommendations.
  • Integrate change management into delivery through stakeholder impact assessments, communications, readiness planning, training coordination, deployment, stabilization, and transition support.
  • Coach project managers, project teams, and functional partners on governance, execution practices, tools, accountability, and project management fundamentals.
  • Manage consulting firms, systems integrators, and third parties against defined outcomes, milestones, quality expectations, and commercial commitments.
  • Comply with safety policies, support departmental and company goals, foster a positive team environment, communicate effectively across the organization, protect confidential information, and maintain honesty and integrity.


Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, Project Management, Organizational Development, Information Systems, or a related field preferred
  • Ten to fifteen years of progressive project, program, PMO, transformation, operations, or business performance leadership experience, including large, complex cross-functional initiatives with enterprise-level impact.
  • Five or more years leading or managing PMO, program management, project delivery, portfolio management, enterprise project governance, or project management teams preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing direct reports or matrixed project professionals and building project standards, governance, stage gates, reporting, training, certification, and capability development programs.
  • Manufacturing, industrial, energy, field service, project-driven, engineering, or other asset-intensive business experience preferred.
  • PMP certification preferred; PgMP, Prosci or another change-management credential, Lean Six Sigma, SAP Activate, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and other relevant certifications are considered a plus.
  • Deep knowledge of integrated planning, governance, financial management, milestone and dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, vendor management, performance reporting, and benefits realization.
  • Strong executive communication, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, stakeholder-engagement, strategic thinking, and organizational skills.
  • Experience with SAP S/4HANA or other core-system transformations, operational excellence, business-process transformation, organizational change, multi-site programs, and external implementation partners is highly valued.


Why Should You Apply?
  • Excellent Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision & 401K Matching).
  • Excellent development programs and advancement opportunities.
  • Tuition reimbursement and on-the-job training.
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
  • Committed to quality products and services.
  • Great working environment and culture.
  • Employee Appreciation Programs and Event.


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