Project Manager

Vollrath Careers; Sheboygan (WI); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Vollrath Careers seeks a Project Manager to lead NPD initiatives, coordinating cross-functional planning and continuous improvement events. You will ensure adherence to the NPD process while guiding teams through planning, execution, and closing phases.

Responsibilities include managing multiple projects, scope, schedule, cost, risks, and stakeholder engagement. A PMP and 3–5 years PM experience are preferred, with Smartsheet proficiency expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a product development field (Engineering, Marketing, Design) required.
• Minimum 3-5 years PM or Project Engineer experience.
• PMP certification is desired.
• Stage-Gate / NPD / Lean Product Development knowledge.
• Proficiency with Smartsheet or similar PM software.

Responsabilités

• Project Leadership: Lead between 5-12 projects of various scale & scope.
• Scope Management: Define scope, translate requirements, and adhere to scope to limit changes.
• Schedule Management: Create cross-functional schedule, manage dependencies and critical path; report variances.
• Cost Management: Compile cross-functional project costs and monitor against baseline.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify risks, develop mitigations, escalate high-impact risks.
• Practitioner Expertise: Apply PM best practices to improve team engagement and productivity.
• Process Expertise: Ensure NPD process compliance and proper documentation.
• Prioritization: Sequence tasks by dependencies and deadlines; resolve conflicts.
• Continuous Improvement: Propose and implement process updates.
• Team Leadership: Build cross-functional teams, motivate, mentor, and develop talent.
• Influence: Build buy-in using data, logic and empathy.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate communications and escalate concerns.
• Conflict Resolution: Facilitate open discussions and resolution.
• Mentorship: Offer guidance and share lessons learned.
• Facilitation: Lead project planning events and maintain balanced participation.
• Presenting: Share status and gate presentations to executives with effective visuals.
• Reporting: Provide planned and ad hoc updates with key metrics.
• May perform other duties as assigned in support of team goals.

Connaissances

Cross-functional leadership

Facilitation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Mentorship

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in product development related discipline

MBA preferred

PMP Certification

Stage-Gate / NPD / Lean Product Development Knowledge

Project Management Software Knowledge (Smartsheet or similar)

Minimum 3-5 years PM or Project Engineer experience

Outils

Smartsheet

Description du poste

The Project Manager will lead cross-functional project teams through the planning, execution, and closing of New Product Development (NPD) projects, facilitate cross-functional planning and continuous improvement events, and ensure adherence to the NPD process.

Job Responsibilities

Project Leadership: Lead between 5-12 projects of various scale & scope.

• Scope Management: Understand the project justification. Clarify project requirements & translate them into scope of work. Communicate & adhere to the established scope, mitigating scope change to limit project impact.
• Schedule Management: Facilitate creation of a cross-functional project schedule, define dependencies & manage the critical path. Communicate variances to baseline. Identify schedule improvement opportunities & drive them to realization.
• Cost Management: Compile cross-functional projects costs by gathering labor, development, and capital expense estimates. Monitor performance to baseline.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify project risks. Develop & manage mitigation plans. Escalate high impact risks appropriately & lead resolution of critical project issues to limit project impact.
• Practitioner Expertise: Demonstrate project management best practices (meeting cadences, communication, etc.) that improve team engagement & productivity through application.
• Process Expertise: Understand the NPD process & ensure projects comply through proper documentation & storage of process deliverables.
• Prioritization: Within projects, ensure tasks are sequenced based on dependencies & deadlines. Highlight priority conflicts across projects & coordinate with contributors to resolve.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify, propose, plan, & implement process updates & improvements.

Team Leadership

Build strong cross-functional teams including Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Quality, & more.

• Team Motivation & Development: Encourage collaboration & open dialogue. Coordinate recognition & team-building.
• Influence: Use data, logic, & empathy to gain buy-in. Build trust-based relationships. Navigate resistance & facilitate consensus.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate communication across functions, escalating concerns or misalignment appropriately.
• Conflict Resolution: Identify the underlying causes of conflict & facilitate open & respectful discussions, arriving at resolution through shared understanding.
• Mentorship: Offer advice & encouragement to others. Share helpful resources and lessons learned.

Communication

• Facilitation: Lead project planning events while ensuring balanced participation. Guide cross-functional teams in process improvement & mapping exercises.
• Presenting: Share project status & gate approval presentations to an executive audience, tailoring the message & reading the room for appropriate detail. Use effective visuals to support key points.
• Reporting: Provide both planned and ad hoc project updates, organizing content logically & concisely, highlighting key metrics & milestones, & ensuring consistency across formats.

Other

• May perform other duties as assigned in support of team, departmental, and organizational goals.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in a product development related discipline (Engineering, Marketing, Design); MBA preferred.

Minimum 3-5 years of Project Management or Project Engineer experience.

PMP Certification is desired.

Stage-Gate / NPD / Lean Product Development Process Knowledge.

Project Management Software Knowledge (Smartsheet or similar).

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