Manufacturing Project Manager
Regal Rexnord
- Florence, KY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage, lead, and support large and/or complex manufacturing operations projects through the entire project lifecycle through a structured Stage Gate process. Including management of Regal Rexnord restructuring projects.
- Design and deploy visual management to track project status and key metrics. Utilize multiple levels of planning and management tools to reinforce accountability and clarify individual ownership.
- Leverage planning and organizational skills to assign individual responsibilities, develop and monitor scope, budget, resources, schedules, and risk mitigation plans to deliver committed milestones.
- Develop and manage the overall project work breakdown structure and integrated master schedule to deliver projects on time, within budget and to scope. Recommend countermeasures to course correct off-track projects (schedule, budget, resources, scope).
- Develop critical path analysis and identify means to accelerate timelines, reduce cost, and/or mitigate risk.
- Challenge traditional methods of thinking to ensure the work is always structured in the most effective manner to achieve project goals utilizing effective and advanced manufacturing methodologies.
- Actively communicate and mitigate issues before they impact the project. Protect the critical path and when necessary, escalate with urgency to remove obstacles, evaluate move forward options using opportunity cost and business metrics, and lead the corrective actions.
- Guide project team to meet Stage Gate Exit commitment dates while ensuring adherence to Gate Exit Process, deliverable completion, and Gate Exit approval thresholds.
- Apply company’s project framework for preparation of detailed project plans, facilitating team meetings, defining formal stage gates, and communicating project status to multiple levels of the Division organization.
- Support the development of Project Management Best Practices, process, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, Business, or a related discipline is required. An advanced degree is a plus.
- Project management certification (PMP, PMI) is preferred.
- 5+ years of project management experience with complex, cross-functional and multi-site teams in a manufacturing environment is required. Must be able to independently lead, manage, and execute on all phases of a project life cycle, including: business case, project objectives and scope, budget, risks, timelines, constraints, and material scheduling.
- Advanced proficiency with project management scheduling tools such MS Project is desired.
- Business Acumen: Understands internal and external customer needs for products and services and able to translate into execution. Applies and translates financial and business acumen that results in positive outcomes for the organization.
- Results-Oriented: Drives for results and effectively operates in an environment of conflicting priorities and compressed timelines.
- Leadership/Influence: Influences professional relationships throughout the organization, regardless of level or reporting relationship to build trust, promote teamwork, engage and inspire others, and work collaboratively. Leads change through a sense of urgency, pride, and respect for people. Anticipates and manages dynamic situations, understands impact, and ensures alignment of resources and costs.
- Teamwork/Collaboration/Global Interface: Works effectively in a matrixed global organizational structure to accomplish company goals; is culturally sensitive; takes actions that respect the needs and contributions of others; contributes to and accepts the team’s decisions; subordinates personal objectives to the objectives of the company or team.
- Problem-Solving: Employs conceptual, critical thinking and analytical skills to collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions, including in situations with limited standardization or information.
- Communication: Presents ideas effectively both verbally and in writing. Able to establish confidence and credibility with associates, management, Division leadership and other internal stakeholders. Recognizes and adapts communication approach to the audience (executive summary or simplifying technical or complex topics).
- Continuous Improvement: Incorporates and promotes lean principles, methodologies, and multiple CI tools: 80/20, Value Stream Mapping, 6S, Flow, Standard Work, Visual Management, & Problem Solving
- Initiative: Sets the example for urgency and results orientation by embodying a strong work ethic and passion to excel. Works with a clear sense of urgency to meet customer needs for responsiveness with a focus on on-time-delivery and lead time.
- Regal Rexnord Values: Role model for Integrity, Responsibility, Diversity, Engagement & Inclusion, Customer Success, Innovation with Purpose, Continuous Improvement, Performance, Passion to Win, and Sense of Urgency