Operations Project Manager III

Operations Project Manager III at Jabil

The Operations Project Manager III will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for a defined customer (internal or external) or user. This role provides management and guidance to multi-functional project teams and is responsible for managing and enhancing customer relationships. The Operations Project Manager III holds full accountability for project schedules, project management, and performance requirements for enterprise-level projects.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring all project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood, and translated for execution.
• Build team(s) to address project goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with customers (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance/approval.
• Align project teams to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the project.
• Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators allocated to projects.
• Provide guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goals and corporate initiatives.
• Communicate project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives.
• Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders, and project sponsor(s).
• Manage development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) or metrics.
• Responsible for recognizing project's Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manage the work within scope, quality, time, and cost constraints.
• Drive project to completion in accordance with the project schedule.
• Coordinate the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks.
• Management of Resource capacity and time tracking allocated to the project.
• Participates in the financial management and analysis of costs for projects, including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER’s), travel, training, resources allocation, and other project related costs.
• Accountable for overall project success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management.
• Report project status, issues, and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results.
• Provide leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement.
• Recognize potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions.
• Identify best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e., modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems).
• Provide key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required).
• Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
• Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority.
• Drive relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums.
• Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrated Leadership and Management capabilities.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification desirable.
• Knowledge of organization’s operating policies and procedures required.
• Knowledge of organization’s culture and guiding principles.
• Previous experience in manufacturing environment: Engineering, Test, Quality, Planning, Materials, etc.
• Prior experience in customer interface.
• Strong operational and financial knowledge required.
• Substantial knowledge of Jabil and demonstrated ability to leverage organization.
• Consultative skills (ability to understand true customer needs).
• Good communications skills.
• Distinctive problem solving leader.
• Should have the following personal characteristics: strong leader, professional, hard-charging, detail-oriented, reliable, calm under fire, creative, with a can-do attitude.
• Automotive/Medical background experience as required.
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required (Supply Chain Management or Engineering).
• PMP certified professional is desirable.
• Minimum 2 years work-related experience required in a supervisory/management role.
• Minimum 2 years project management experience or related discipline.
• Or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.

Key skills/competency

• Project Management
• Strategic Initiatives
• Customer Relationship Management
• Cross-functional Leadership
• KPI Management
• Risk Analysis
• Financial Management
• Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Communication
• Manufacturing Operations
• Problem Solving