Position Overview:
As the Director of Project Management within our Industrial Automation Systems division, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex automation projects. Reporting to the General Manager, you will oversee the planning, execution, and successful completion of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
Project Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of Project and Program Managers, ensuring the efficient execution of automation projects from purchase order receipt through to final installation and customer acceptance.
Ensure project execution adheres to ISO 9001/NQA-1 Quality requirements as defined in manuals and procedures
HSE: Demonstrate leadership in Health, Safety, and Environment compliance.
Ensure the implementation and maintenance of the health, safety, and environment management system requirements.
Conduct hazard assessments, inspections, and audits as required by legislative framework or corporate requirements
Strategic Planning:
• Develop and implement project strategies that align with organizational goals, utilizing methodologies such as AGILE, PRINCE2, and Lean.
• Stakeholder Management: Cultivate strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including IT, R&D, and external suppliers, to ensure project success.
• Apply standards defined by General Manager for project execution, providing value through quality and performance meeting or exceeding customer expectations, thereby enabling customers to achieve their business goals.
• Ensure appropriate amount of customer interface occurs as a means towards improving customer satisfaction levels on an ongoing basis.
• Recommend and implement metrics concerning customer satisfaction. During the life cycle of large system projects maintain overall customer satisfaction by anticipating and preventing issues before they become customer concerns, and by optimizing the use of resources.
• Foster and support a cost conscious and efficiency-based performance model in line with Project Management strategy.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks, maintaining RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs and ensuring compliance with quality assurance procedures.
• Team Development: Provide leadership and mentorship to project teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Operational Oversight: Apply standards set by the General Manager for project execution, ensuring value through quality and performance that meets or exceeds customer expectations, thereby enabling customers to achieve their business goals.
o Utilize a proven, structured approach to define, plan, and control complex projects successfully.
o Manage project finances, track costs and benefits, and ensure the efficient allocation of resources.
o Assist Applications Engineering with preparing quotations and conducting customer pre-order visits when required.
Essential Skills & Experience:
• Education: Degree(s) in business and/or sciences, or equivalent in consultative or business management.
• Experience: 8-10 years proven experience in project management delivered in automation or manufacturing industry.
o Proven track record managing $7. 5 million worth of work in a minimum of 4 concurrent projects, or, simultaneously managed a minimum of 10 projects while adequately managing margin, schedule and scope creep.
o Practical working knowledge of robots, PLC’s, instrumentation or other machine controls packages, sensors and pneumatics is an asset.
o Preference will be given to those who possess an excellent manufacturing or process engineering background, a superior mechanical aptitude, and proven trouble-shooting skills.
Certifications:
• Completion of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is an asset. Knowledge and application of key project management principles (i.e., AGILE, PRINCE2, Lean).
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
1.1 People - Support Each Other.
2.2 Process - Drive Customer Value.
3.2 Performance - Fuel Innovation.
1.3 People - Model Positive Attitude.
1.2 People - Develop People and Team.
2.3 Process - Balance Strategic Thinking and Tactical Execution.
3.3 Performance - Relentless Ownership of Results.
2.1 Process - Continuous Improvement Mindset.
3.1 Performance - Winning with Integrity.
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