Senior leader responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex MHE projects, driving schedule, cost, quality, safety and customer satisfaction across multiple concurrent programs.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $180,000 - $210,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:Core responsibilities:- Own program delivery: lead planning, resourcing, budgeting, scheduling and execution for multiple, high-complexity projects.
- Build and run repeatable execution models, playbooks and governance to standardize delivery and capture lessons learned.
- Lead and coach project managers, site leads and cross-functional execution teams; set objectives, KPIs and career development.
- Ensure commercial performance: manage project P&L, change orders, claims and supplier performance.
- Risk & issue management: identify, mitigate and escalate critical risks; drive timely recovery plans.
- Stakeholder management: act as primary interface to customers, senior leadership and major suppliers; provide clear, timely reporting.
- Drive safety & quality: enforce safety, compliance and quality standards across sites.
- Continuous improvement: lead post-project reviews and apply learning curve gains to reduce engineering and PM effort on follow-ons.
- Resource & supplier strategy: optimize internal and external capacity, pre-qualify vendors and secure critical long-lead items.
Required qualifications & experience:- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related field (Master's preferred).
- 10+ years of project delivery experience, including 5+ years in a senior project leadership role.
- Proven track record delivering complex, multi-site industrial projects (material handling equipment/automation experience strongly preferred).
- Demonstrable experience managing multi-million dollar project portfolios and supplier networks.
- Strong financial acumen with experience owning project P&L and commercial negotiations.
- Certifications preferred: PMP, MBA
Key competencies & skills:- Strategic leadership and people-management skills.
- Excellent stakeholder, negotiation and escalation management.
- Strong planning, scheduling and earned-value familiarity (MS Project, Primavera or equivalent).
- Data-driven decision making; uses KPIs and dashboards for performance management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable at executive and customer forums.
- Willingness to travel frequently to sites.
KPIs / success measures:- On-time delivery rate (projects completed to committed ROS).
- Budget performance (% projects within +/- target).
- Customer satisfaction / NPS for delivered sites.
- Safety performance (TRIR / recordable incidents).
- Change order rate and schedule growth (%).
- Reduction in engineering and PM hours on follow-on sites (learning curve gains).
- Supplier delivery reliability (OTD for long-lead items).
Reporting & scope:- Reports to Sr. Director of Project Execution
- Directs a team of project managers and site leads; dotted relationships with engineering, procurement, manufacturing and service functions.
- Responsible for a regional or global portfolio depending on company scale.
Nice-to-have:- Prior experience with Amazon or large e-commerce/3PL customers.
- Background in automation, controls and systems integration.
- Change management / transformation experience.
