Project Manager Operations Excellence

Supply Chain / DHL; Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Discounted Stock Purchase

General Bonus Plan

Generous PTO

Job summary

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Project Manager OE to lead medium to large start-up projects across North America, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery. The role focuses on risk management, cross-functional collaboration and delivering against business cases.

The position offers a national salary range of $85,000–$150,000 and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, prescription, and PTO. Commitment to excellence and stakeholder communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree or 7+ years in project management or operations.
• PMI PMP certification preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in manufacturing operations.
• Minimum 5 years in supply chain.
• Minimum 5 years in production/operations management.

Responsibilities

• Manage medium to large new business start-up projects.
• De-risk opportunities through to execution.
• Lead startups to meet customer and shareholder promises.
• Ensure standards and best practices across new operations.
• Develop and manage project plans, budgets and schedules.
• Facilitate Steering Team meetings and communicate progress.
• Support sales/bid management as needed.
• Deliver project documentation and lessons learned.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

PMI PMP certification

Job description

The Project Manger OE role has a national salary range of $85,000- $150,000.

DHL Supply Chain offers multiple benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription, Discounted Stock Purchase, General Bonus Plan and a generous PTO policy.

Are you an innovative thinker who can easily prioritize and communicate key points quickly? Do you want to have a direct impact on customers and the overall business strategy? Do you enjoy managing multiple projects at the same time with the responsibility to keep them on-time and on-budget? Do you feel that your skills of thinking outside the box and working across multiple teams, functions, etc. are in need of a new home?

If so, DHL Supply Chain has the opportunity for you.

Job Description

In support of the North America growth agenda, the Project Manager will:

• 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
• Implement strategic initiatives
• Manage overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of medium to large projects with high risk and/or complexity
• Ensure sales to delivery requirements are met for startups, to ensure successful delivery
• Establish and manage scope to ensure business case realization, including Deviation to Plan post go live
• Drive risk/ issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolutionManage the budget and resolve spending issues
• Manage communication and escalation at all levels of the organization
• Deliver best practice project documentation
• Provide support to the sales / bid management process, upon request
• Manage project performance against business cases
• Identify project resource requirementsImplement previous lessons learned and drive continuous improvement
• Lead, drive and challenge the project team
• Facilitate Steering Team meetings to ensure senior team awareness and alignment
• Develop and execute robust Cutover Plans, which include all Operational, Systemic and Customer activities
• Prepare for and participate in Project Assurance Reviews
• Facilitate Lessons Learned and Project Assurance Reviews for Small — Medium projects that are led by others

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or 7 years of experience within project management or operations related field, required
• Professional project management certification e.g.-PMI PMP, 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

Our Organization is an equal opportunity employer.