Program Manager - Livonia, United States - Roush

Description

We work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn't believe. At Roush, you're part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovated solutions to complex challenges? Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged? If so, then keep reading.

We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.

The Program Manager will manage multiple programs and teams to ensure program goals are achieved. The role will interact with multiple customers and cross functional teams. The Program Manager will lead program teams(s) from quoting through completion of programs.

As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managingbusiness aspects of multiple concurrent programs and ensuring financial targets and timing are met while maintaining established quality standards
• Managing, leading, training, coaching, and mentoring program team(s) related to their job responsibilities
• Planning, scheduling, and overseeing coordinator activities and monitoringprogram(s) status
• Actively maintaining customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction and quality of service
• Managing all activities associated with materials, budgeting, and production for assigned programs(s)
• Acting as liaison with the customer and program staff to properly identify and process scope changes, addressing issues, and communicatingregarding program milestones
• Managing program related correspondence and documents through designated document management systems
• Ensuring adherence to Roush's standards of quality, safety, and best practices along with customer specific requirements
• Directing and managingcoordination groups that assign goals for subcontractors
• Developing and executinglarge program plans
• Managingday-to-day build operations supporting department management
• Managingthe execution of continuous quality improvement activities
• Collecting data from customers, suppliers, bill of material, and other resources to prepare presentations and reports
• Reviewing program(s) status daily and report percentage of completion

To be considered as a Program Manager, you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in business or engineering
• U.S. citizenship allowing for International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance
• Minimum of 4 years of managing projects and programs
• Minimum of 2 years of years of formal or informal leadership experience
• Ability to travel at least 5% of the time
• Demonstrated knowledge of program management tools and processes (change control, risk identification, phase gate)
• Proven customer relationship skills including the ability to interpret customer requests and deliverables with a focus on cost, quality and delivery
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and abilityto effectively host presentations and work with cross functional teams
• Expert skills in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Project. Microsoft Excel is a large part of job responsibilities
• Must have excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, the ability to follow directions, and ability to prioritize a wide range of assignments

A successful candidate may also have:

• Direct or indirect experience with people management and team leadership
• Working knowledge of program management tools (risk analyses, communication plans, timing plans, business cases, comprehensive financial analyses)
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Ability to solve complex problems, work independently, and be customer focused while managing cost, quality, and delivery

Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, paid holidays, andmore.

If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges, we want you on our team.

Please visit our careers page and apply by clicking on this

Visit our

Like us on

Roush is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

If you need a reasonable accommodation for our employment application process due to disability, please contact Roush Talent Acquisition at