Operations Project Leader

Job Description:

Operations Project Leader - Greenwood, MS

INNOVATE without boundaries! At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success.

We are an inclusive workplace that encourages diversity of thought, experience, and background to solve complex problems as one team. Every employee is encouraged to continuously improve and grow, and it is a top priority for managers to develop their teams, making a wide range of internal development opportunities available to all employees.

We are One Team, overcoming obstacles together and celebrating together. Come be part of a winning team that feels like family.

Your Role on Our Team:

The Project Leader is responsible for managing multiple moderate to highly complex engineering projects for strategic initiatives with minimal direction. You will be utilizing your technical skills and project management ability to support new product development (NPD) launches, manufacturing support initiatives, risk mitigation efforts and strategic transfer execution.  This role will manage the relationships between internal and external teams involved in the NPD process.   Individuals in this position will provide project management and necessary technical direction to assure successful and timely implementation of projects. This role will be focused on long-term initiatives and vetting future strategies for all facets of manufacturing in Byhalia, MS.

You’ll be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities: 

• Provides leadership over moderate to highly complex operations projects for NPD, process improvement, future strategies, and manufacturing support with minimal direction
•   Utilize data-driven decision-making to influence key stakeholders
• Provides direction, guidance, and engineering expertise to team members
• Work cross-functionally and globally with Quality & Reliability, Engineering, Sourcing, Finance, Supply and Demand, Marketing, and other departments
• Effectively track and communicate milestones (QB, MP, PR, ship dates, etc.) to key stakeholders.
• Ensure successful transitions from project team support to operations management.
• Review work of manufacturing engineers, process engineers and other project team members
•   Perform data analysis to produce information and provide detailed reports to decision makers
• Responsible for the completion of assigned NPD projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines
• Communicates, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion
• Communicate technical details, ideas, and concepts to engineers and non-engineers in multiple locations

• Lead operational readiness & implementation.  Accountable for technical elements of project execution, including integration of equipment, tooling, capability reviews, manufacturing process, and safety, regulatory, and standards compliance.

• Consistently visualizes entire scope of a project with very little guidance
•   Tracks project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines
•   Interpret data and make corresponding recommendations including but not limited to:
•   Impact to financials (GM and EBIT, total CapEx)
• Intermediate supply chain design analysis
• End-to-end logistics modeling
• Risk trade-off for short and long-term strategy
• Line layout considerations for NPD if in-house
• Recommend changes to existing standards and procedures

The TOOLS you’ll bring with you:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or an engineering-related field.

• Minimum 2 years’ engineering experience in the related field

• Experience successfully managing low-moderate complexity projects and/or subsystems of larger projects

• Must be able to personally conduct detailed analyses or recognize the need and seek the appropriate expertise to achieve the desired results

• CAD Skills Level:  Basic 2D

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software

• Travel required to execute critical projects/initiatives (frequency dependent upon project)undefined

• Other TOOLS we prefer you to have:

• Knowledge of the technologies associated with manufacturing and kitting processes

• Graduate studies in business areas such as Project Management, Finance, Marketing, or Organizational studies

• Formal project management training preferred

Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.