Project Specialist

Description:

As a Project Specialist this individual will be responsible for design planning and approval, vendor and other stakeholder group coordination, quality assurance, and customer harmonization while managing individual project budgets of up to $2M. Primarily responsible for the deployment, implementation, and launch of delivery stations and tactical programs that make up some of client’s initiatives. In 2022 our team will delivery over 1000 unique projects in the delivery stations to improve safety, recognize cost savings, and increase capacity.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

• Ability to read site plans

• PMP certification

• Agile or Kaizen PM Methodologies

• Drive Customer Obsession through all activities and teams

• Earn Trust operations customers through clear and timely communication, gathering of feedback, and driving all action items to completion

• Take end-to-end ownership of everything within your grasp or scope of influence

• Assess, escalate, and eliminate project risks to safely deliver projects on-time, under budget, and within all design standards

• Follow project specific action plans maintaining and ensuring the quality of all project tasks

• Escalate and identify opportunities for new standard work and mechanisms to close gaps where guidance in action plans is unclear or incomplete

• Deploy for days and up to several weeks to various geographies within North America in order to launch the most innovative delivery solutions in the world.

• Travel requirement is up to 75%

• Create and implement improvements to our transportation network that deliver flexible and efficient products on behalf of our customers

• Manage on-site deployment of third party logistics vendors, managing daily workflow, budgets, inventory control and quality assurance for equipment deployment

• Lead meetings including Senior Leaders from up to 30 cross functional teams

• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs

Experience Level:

Entry Level