Program Manager 2
Summary
Oversee large industrial projects from award to close-out, coordinating cross-site manufacturing, budgets, and risk while aligning stakeholders and ensuring contractual compliance.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Lead the execution of complex domestic and international projects throughout the project lifecycle, from order award to project close-out.
- Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, including schedules, milestones, resource requirements, procurement strategies, financial objectives, and risk mitigation activities.
- Coordinate activities across multiple manufacturing sites to optimize project outcomes, capabilities, quality, and cost effectiveness.
- Drive execution excellence by managing critical paths, monitoring project performance, and proactively addressing risks and issues.
- Ensure customer specifications, contractual commitments, and project deliverables are understood and executed effectively.
- Manage customer change requests, scope modifications, and commercial opportunities while maintaining project objectives.
- Lead project kick-off meetings, customer review meetings, inspection activities, and milestone discussions.
- Foster collaboration among Sales, Order Management, Service, Manufacturing, Leadership, and other key stakeholders.
- Support realistic delivery commitments through effective planning and coordination of documentation and lead-time requirements.
- Partner with close-out teams to ensure successful project completion, documentation delivery, and operational handover.
- Negotiate project scope, commercial terms, change orders, and customer expectations to support successful outcomes.
- Monitor project financial performance, identify opportunities for margin improvement, and support profitability goals.
- Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, applicable regulations, and company policies.
Who You Are:
You create clarity around goals and priorities while aligning stakeholders toward a common purpose. You make sound decisions by evaluating available information, balancing customer needs with business objectives, and taking accountability for outcomes. You build productive relationships through effective communication, collaboration, and influence across diverse teams and cultures. You understand the financial and commercial impacts of project decisions and proactively seek opportunities to improve project performance while delivering value to customers.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience managing complex, multi-functional projects in an engineering, manufacturing, industrial, or technical environment.
- Strong project planning, execution, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience working with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams in a global business environment.
- Ability to interpret technical information and apply it to project execution activities.
- Demonstrated capability to identify risks, solve problems, and drive projects to successful completion.
- Willingness and ability to travel regionally or internationally, as required by project needs.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- Professional project management certification such as PMP, Prince2, CAPM, APM, or equivalent.
- Experience leading multi-site and multi-country projects.
- Knowledge of contract management, commercial negotiations, and change order administration.
- Understanding of manufacturing operations, supply chain coordination, and project financial management.
- Experience managing projects with significant customer interaction and complex stakeholder requirements.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments while maintaining a collaborative and customer-focused approach.
Our Culture and Commitment To You:
At Emerson, we believe diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds strengthen our organization and drive innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where every employee feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute. We foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, integrity, and accountability, providing opportunities for professional growth and meaningful career development. We welcome candidates who are excited to make an impact and encourage applications from individuals with a variety of career paths and experiences.