Defense Project Manager Job Listing at Roush Industries in Troy, MI (Job ID DRN4bW3x7M)

Description

At Roush, you are part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovative 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. 

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

The Project Manager will manage multiple projects and teams to ensure project goals are achieved. The 
role will interact with multiple cross functional teams and customers. The Project Manager will lead a 
project team from inception to completion.

As a Project Manager, you will:

•  Manage business aspects of multiple concurrent projects and ensuring financial targets and
  timing are met while maintaining established quality standards
• Manage, train, coach, and mentor project team related to their job responsibilities. Plan,
  schedule, and oversee coordinator activities and monitor project(s) status
• Actively maintain customer relationships to ensure customer satisfaction and quality of service.
  • Managing all activities associated with materials, budgeting, and production for assigned
  project(s)
• Act as liaison with the customer and project staff to properly identify and process scope
  changes, address issues and communicate regarding project milestones
• Managing project 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
• Direct and manage coordination groups that assign goals for subcontractors
• Develop and execute large project plans. Manage day-to-day build operations supporting
  department management. Manage the execution of continuous quality improvement 
  activities
• Collect data from customers, suppliers, Bill of Material, and other resources to prepare
  presentations and reports. Review project status daily and report percentage of completion

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering
• Minimum of 2 years of coordination experience with 2 years of formal or informal 
  leadership experience 
• Experience in program management practices and execution for government and defense industry and working with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
• U.S. Citizen
• Proven customer relationship skills including the ability to interpret customer requests and
  deliverables
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to 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
  prioritize a wide range of assignments
• Must be able to work overtime/weekends
• Ability to obtain security clearance, minimum secret level

Successful candidates may also have: 

•  Project Management Professional certification
•  Working knowledge of program management tools and processes
•  Knowledge and experience in setting up low volume manufacturing and quality processes for a   defense wiring harness business
• Developing and optimizing wiring harness work instructions

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 link: https://jobs.roush.com/us/en/

Visit our website: www.roush.com

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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 734-779-7087.