Director, Project Management

About the role

Senior leader responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex Material Handling Equipment (MHE) projects, driving schedule, cost, quality, safety, and customer satisfaction across multiple concurrent programs.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Willingness to travel frequently to sites.

Qualifications

• Certifications preferred: PMP, MBA.
• Prior experience with Amazon or large e-commerce/3PL customers (nice-to-have).
• Background in automation, controls, and systems integration (nice-to-have).
• Change management / transformation experience (nice-to-have).

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.

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.

Pay

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.

Benefits

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

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