The posting
About This Role
This role leads the execution of complex, cross-functional supply chain and engineering cost reduction projects. The individual translates business priorities into actionable project plans, tracks delivery and financial outcomes, and provides data-driven recommendations to support decision-making. As the project manager, the individual owns the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution and benefits realization.
The role partners closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Business Units, and suppliers to coordinate end-to-end execution, identify risks, resolve dependencies, and maintain accurate portfolio reporting. The individual influences stakeholders without direct authority and provides leadership with concise updates, recommendations, and decisions required to deliver committed outcomes. The individual leads project reviews, drives action-item accountability, removes execution barriers, and implements recovery plans to keep high-value projects aligned with committed timing and business results.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead high-visibility, million-dollar projects from business case through benefit realization, aligning executive sponsors and cross-functional teams on scope, investment, milestones, risks, and key decisions to deliver committed financial and operational outcomes.
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, including scope, schedules, milestones, deliverables, resources, and critical-path dependencies, to ensure disciplined execution from initiation through closure. Develop concise project-status reports for executive-level updates.
- Lead project teams through execution, facilitating working sessions and project reviews, assigning actions, removing roadblocks, and implementing recovery plans to keep projects on track.
- Drive portfolio-level execution and accountability, holding project owners, and cross-functional teams accountable for timelines, deliverables, financial commitments, and required governance.
- Establish and enforce PMO governance standards across project intake, prioritization, risk management, reporting, decision forums, and documentation, ensuring each project has clearly defined scope, milestones, ownership, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead portfolio resource and capacity planning, ensuring critical projects are appropriately staffed and recommending changes to sequencing, ownership, or resource allocation when constraints arise, highlighting performance, risks, decisions required, and recovery actions.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen project processes, governance, reporting, and execution efficiency, and lead implementation of sustainable improvements across the portfolio.
- Partner with Finance and project owners to validate savings assumptions, forecasts, timing, and benefit realization.
- Maintain accurate project data in approved systems and create timely portfolio reports.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of project management experience, with a demonstrated track record of success in launching engineering projects (NPI, cost out, etc.) into production.
- 5+ Years of Experience in supply chain, program management, manufacturing, or engineering.
- 5+ Years of Experience working with manufactured products
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following: Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Logistics, Business Administration
- Experience leading complex projects or defined workstreams within a broader portfolio, including governance, financial tracking, risk management, and cross-functional execution.
- Program Management experience, developing and executing program plans with product development and/or cost reduction initiatives, resource planning, and budgeting
- Experience using project planning tools such as Microsoft Project.
- Solid critical problem-solving and creative thinking skills
- Skilled in time management, organizational, and prioritization skills
- ·Strong business communication skills (written and verbal) with ability to influence at all levels
- A demonstrated track record of success in process optimization, cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
- HVAC Product Development Experience
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred; equivalent practical project-management experience may be considered.
- Strong business and financial acumen, with experience partnering with Finance to connect project execution to forecasted and realized financial outcomes.
- Possess technical acumen necessary to work with engineering staff in delivery of technical projects
Location & Work Arrangement
- Preferred Locations: Palm Beach Gardens, FL | Charlotte, NC | Indianapolis, IN | Fort Wayne, IN | Syracuse, NY
- Relocation: Relocation assistance is available.
