Project Manager Operations - Construction & Design

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin is seeking a full-time Project Manager Construction and Design at its U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.

You will coordinate moderately complex projects between project teams and other departments in the development of Garmin products and may serve as a Project Leader on small to mid‑size projects. The Construction and Design team manages new construction, remodeling, and facilities projects across North America, ensuring milestones, scope, budget, and timelines are

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years project management experience.
• Excellent academics (GPA 3.0+ as a general rule).
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication across functions.
• PM skills with proven track record delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Ability to coordinate with upper management, clients, and other departments.

Responsibilities

• Applies project management skills on moderately complex projects and communicates milestones.
• Documents scope, requirements, objectives, validation needs, and timing.
• Leads meetings, informs stakeholders, and communicates tradeoffs for progress.
• Maintains complex timelines and milestone tracking.
• Applies risk management to identify and mitigate schedule issues.
• Drives project progress and escalates as needed.
• May serve as project leader on small to mid-size projects.
• Supports design reviews and contributes to process improvements.
• Maintains clear project documentation and stakeholder relations.
• Collaborates with Garmin teams and external entities.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Team leadership

Budgeting

Multi-tasking

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration/Management/Operations/Engineering or related field

Tools

MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full‑time Project Manager Construction and Design at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for providing project management and coordination for moderately complex projects between project teams and other departments in the development of Garmin products and may serve as a Project Leader on small to mid‑size projects.

The Construction and Design team is responsible for the management of new construction, remodeling, and facilities projects of all types of construction, including tracking and managing every aspect of the projects across North America.

Essential Functions

• Applies project management skills on moderately complex projects or tasks, including understanding and communicating milestones, timelines, and project decisions
• Provisions the timely documentation of clear project scope [i.e. detailed assumptions, requirements (internal, external, regulatory), objectives/targets, validation needs, resource estimates, costs, and timing]
• Leads effective and efficient team meetings, ensures team members/stakeholders are appropriately informed, and communicates project tradeoffs and decisions to ensure forward moving progress of the project
• Supports creation and maintenance of complex timelines and milestone tracking
• Applies project metrics and risk management principles to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
• Drives the overall progress of assigned projects towards completion, using good judgment in determining when to escalate issues to management
• May perform as a project leader on small to mid‑size projects
• Leverages understanding of product domain to support concept/new feature development efforts
• Ensures accurate project reporting and consistently provides clear and accurate project documentation
• Develops good relationships between the various team(s), other Garmin teams/departments and external entities (e.g. customers, suppliers, etc.)
• Collaborates and participates in design reviews by providing input, feedback, and process improvement suggestions
• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques including support of root cause and corrective actions for given problems
• Demonstrates full use of accepted standards, procedures, tools and requirements as they relate to project management and product segment
• Demonstrates good customer communication skills, including but not limited to handling difficult conversations and negotiating with the customer for reasonable delivery targets
• Provides mentoring and guidance to less experienced Project Managers (Project Manager 1)

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations, Engineering or related field AND a minimum of 2 years project management experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to work across functional and organizational departments
• Demonstrated Project Management skills with a proven track record in delivering projects within the expected timeline and budget
• Demonstrated experience with effectively eliciting cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments and ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies
• Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead projects in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to deal with confidential company matters
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint)

Desired Qualifications

• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5 as a general rule)
• APICS Certified (American Production and Inventory Control Society)
• Previous experience with Oracle ERP demonstrating technical competence in configuration of business functional modules
• General understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design
• General understanding of Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits