Quality & Continuous Improvement Sr Project Manager

About the role

The Simplification Sr. Project Manager partners with business units and functions across the Oshkosh enterprise to accelerate multi-size, multi-type strategic initiatives while building key capabilities along the way. This role collaborates closely with project and department leaders to help achieve near and long-term goals by using Simplification best practices and principles: providing data insights, reducing complexity, and leading people through change.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the evolution of the Oshkosh Operating Model – working on initiatives that run, grow, and transform the business
• Build, cultivate, and maintain long term relationships at all levels and across the enterprise with an understanding of customer’s imperatives
• Advise business unit leaders in making business and culture decisions based on data and insights, considering the return on investment to the organization and the impact to team members
• Coach and develop skills for team members, SMEs and leaders through the 80/20 analysis, lean tool application, and leading change
• Facilitate communication between suppliers, customers, leaders, and team members
• Align viewpoints by guiding and influencing project leaders, sponsors, and team members to ensure plans are connected and practical
• Identify, monitor and mitigate people and/or organizational risk
• Prepare and present program status, issues, plan proposals, and lessons learned to internal and external customers
• Works closely with implementation partner(s) to rollout solution
• Create, improve, and maintain the Oshkosh Operating Model training and coaching materials
• Shape key measurements, product quality, process controls, people readiness and other project goals (milestones met, risks mitigated, lessons learned, VOC)
• Engage project leadership to ensure transfer of ownership is successful
• Perform other tasks as requested

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree(6+) years of experience with change initiatives
• Excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
• Aptitude for training, coaching, facilitating, and advising a variety of people
• Able to travel up to 25% of the time

Standout Qualifications

• Project Management
• Organizational Change Management (i.e. ADKAR model)
• Operational Excellence / Shingo / Lean / Six Sigma Green-Black Belt
• 80/20 analysis and business application

Pay

$92,600.00 - $154,400.00

Working Conditions

• Physical Demands: Frequent Typing, Standing, Sitting, Hearing, Visual
• Non-Physical Demands: Frequent Analysis/Reasoning, Communication/Interpretation, Reading, Sustained Mental Activity (i.e., auditing, analysis, problem solving, data maintenance, composing reports, etc.), EQ Engagement
• Environmental Demands: Occasional Work Alone, Frequent Task Changes
• Work Schedule: Routine shift hours. Infrequent overtime, weekend, or shift rotation
• Demands/Deadlines: High volume and variable work demands, and deadlines impose strain on routine basis or considerable stress intermittently; OR regular direct contacts with distressed individuals within the immediate work environment; and /or exposure to demands and pressures form persons other than immediate supervisor