Impactful Project Manager, Operations Excellence

supply-chain; Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Project Manager OE to lead medium to large projects across North America, aligning with growth plans and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery. You will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage budgets, and de-risk opportunities while delivering against business cases.

Ideal candidates bring PMI PMP certification (preferred) and 5+ years in manufacturing operations, supply chain, or production management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 7+ years of experience within project management or operations related field.
• PMI PMP certification, preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing operations environment, preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain, preferred.
• 5+ years of production / operations management experience, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages the implementation of medium to large new business start-up and other business projects with significant risk and complexity.
• De-risks new business opportunities through to execution.
• Manages start-ups to deliver upon promises to our customer and shareholders.
• Assures Supply Chain culture, standards & business practices are deployed in new operations.
• Implements strategic initiatives.
• Manages overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of medium to large projects with high risk and/or complexity.
• Ensures sales to delivery requirements are met for startups to ensure successful delivery.
• Establishes and manages scope to ensure business case realization, including Deviation to Plan post go live.
• Drives risk/ issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution.
• Manages the budget and resolves spending issues.
• Manages communication and escalation at all levels of the organization.
• Delivers best practice project documentation.
• Provides support to the sales / bid management process, upon request.
• Manages project performance against business cases.
• Identifies project resource requirements.
• Implements previous lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
• Leads, drives and challenges the project team.
• Facilitates Steering Team meetings to ensure senior team awareness and alignment.
• Develops and executes robust Cutover Plans, which include all Operational, Systemic and Customer activities.
• Prepares for and participates in Project Assurance Reviews.
• Facilitates Lessons Learned and Project Assurance Reviews for Small – Medium projects that are led by others

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Risk management

Cross-functional teamwork

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or 7+ years PM/ops experience

PMI PMP certification

Job description

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Project Manager OE to lead medium to large projects across North America, aligning with growth plans and ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery. You will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage budgets, and de-risk opportunities while delivering against business cases.

Ideal candidates bring PMI PMP certification (preferred) and 5+ years in manufacturing operations, supply chain, or production management.