Operations Project Manager

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Requisition ID: 24182

REV Group companies are leading designers and manufacturers of specialty vehicles and related aftermarket parts and services, which serve a diversified customer base, primarily in the United States, through two segments: Specialty Vehicles and Recreation Vehicles. The Specialty Vehicles Segment provides customized vehicle solutions for applications, including essential needs for public services (ambulances and fire apparatus) and commercial infrastructure (terminal trucks and street sweepers). REV Group's Recreational Vehicles Segment manufactures a variety of RVs from Class B vans to Class A motorhomes. REV Group's portfolio is made up of well-established principal vehicle brands, including many of the most recognizable names within their industry. Several of REV Group's brands pioneered their specialty vehicle product categories and date back more than 50 years. REV Group trades on NYSE under the symbol REVG. Investors-REVG

Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer for the Specialty Vehicle segment, the Operations Project Manager position is responsible for managing assigned projects from planning and budgeting through launch and maintenance according to project plans supporting the applicable business unit and manufacturing.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead multiple aspects of a portfolio of projects to ensure commitments are met:
  • Identify project objectives and oversee them throughout the project's life cycle
  • Define deliverables to support business goals, in collaboration with senior management and other stakeholders
  • Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
  • Establish and monitor project timelines and milestones/deliverables using appropriate tools
  • Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents
  • Proactively manage changes in scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
  • Complete project according to budget and deadlines
  • Conduct project lessons learned and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Use business knowledge, project management skill, and judgment to assign tasks, communicate status, and drive collaboration with project team members to complete deliverables, resolve issues and mitigate risks and escalate when appropriate
• Make decisions using basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections
• Assemble and complete CER (capital expenditure request) process, including knowledge of signature levels, and tracking of approval
• Assure project legal documents are completed and signed
• Ensure project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, influencing, and motivating team members to ensure project effectiveness, team development, and morale
• Verify project teams are properly staffed, trained, and understand expectations
• Confirm engagement of project teams, stakeholders, and sponsors to ensure a project's success
• Set project expectations across divisions, functions, third party vendors, consulting partners, project teams, and stakeholders as required
• Responsible for project integration management through the PM methodology phases; discovery, planning, execution, deployment, and close
• Improve effectiveness through lessons learned and bench marking to meet or exceed organizational and customer expectations
• Promote healthy vendor relationships by setting expectations and communicating openly
• May be responsible for project personnel, as well as indirect resources
• Work with functional areas to understand how business processes interact and record current state business processes
• Recommend business process and system changes to improve efficiency and business outcomes; propose solutions which address the larger business environment
• Document clear and testable requirements which describe a system which will be implemented
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Generate, explain, present, and improve detailed schedules, objectives, reports, and other documentation accurately
• Manage project transition between functional groups and project phases
• Conduct research into project-related issues and products
• Other tasks as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field preferred
• Minimum of eight years' experience in a project management capacity
• Project Management Professions (PMP) preferred
• Strong and consistent attention to detail
• Sound judgment with the ability to make timely decisions
• Proven ability to plan and handle multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Self-motivated with the ability to stay on task
• Versatile, flexible, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities
• Creative and innovative team player
• Strong:
  • Communication skills, verbal and written
  • Leadership attributes and interpersonal skills
  • Organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills

• • Able to

• Learn, understand, and apply new technologies
• Correct complex process and/or system issues
• Understand key financial metrics, create capital expenditure requests, and manage a budget
• Understand, evaluate, and recommend changes to complex business processes and to analytical models

• Proven training and organizational change management skills.
• Experience with value stream mapping
• Conflict resolution skills within functional team and outside vendors

EDUCATION AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS: (Select education and/or other certifications that may be either required or preferred to perform the job)

REV Group is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other basis prohibited by law. REV Group also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunities for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.

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