Project Manager, Change Leader

Project Management

Lead cross-functional sustaining, VAVE, regulatory, quality, supply chain, and product improvement projects from opportunity identification through implementation and closure.

Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and dependencies to ensure successful delivery against business objectives and customer requirements.

Drive prioritization and execution of a diverse portfolio of engineering change opportunities, balancing business value, technical complexity, resource constraints, and organizational priorities.

Facilitate collaboration across Engineering, Operations, Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Supply Chain teams to achieve project goals and resolve issues.

Lead evaluation and implementation of cost reduction, value engineering, product reliability, manufacturability, and compliance improvement initiatives while maintaining product performance and customer expectations.

Establish and maintain project governance processes, including status reviews, risk management, change control, escalation management, and executive reporting.

Identify, develop, and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and best practices that improve efficiency, visibility, and overall project execution effectiveness.

Support enterprise transformation initiatives, including PLM, ERP, and change management process enhancements, ensuring successful adoption across the organization.

Create industry leading processes using latest available technologies to transform Hayward including:

Investigation and Change Request Process to identify and document opportunities and define solutions.

Enterprise Change Assessment process to assess internal and external requirements and validate change costs and impacts.

Change prioritization and disposition process including Change Review Board for managing high-risk and high-impact opportunities. Define criteria for identifying opportunities requiring additional oversight. Address board membership, roles and responsibilities, and decision-making procedure.

Success requires a process that scales effectively with opportunity scope and impact and includes robust portfolio management ensuring optimum deployment of resources.

Identify and implement process key performance indicators and visual controls measuring conformance to key process elements.

Analyze, compile and present both quantitative and qualitative data and recommendations, including configuration management process, compliance audits, and change management metrics.

Maintain, lead, and foster a “kaizen” mindset:

Understand how processes operate relative to established requirements. Actively collaborate with cross-functional teams to enforce, analyze, and support adoption of CM requirements.

Evaluate new technologies or methodologies and develop knowledge in these areas to apply to company projects.

Identify opportunities for improvement in PMO and CM processes and lead continuous improvement activities.

Participation in global improvement and standardization of CM processes through data driven decisions and requirement driven solutions.

Technology transition:

Actively support transition from localized MRP systems to a successful global PLM and ERP.

Develop and maintain playbooks for CM standards to be used in PLM, MRP and ERP migrations.

Comply with and support the health, safety, and environmental programs, policies and procedures.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Travel is less than 10%.

This position is located in North Kingstown, RI and is in office 5 days per week.

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