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**Title**: Project Manager Operations
**Primary Location**: Mexico (MX) - Nuevo León IJD Monterrey
**Function**: Operations
**Main responsibilities**:
Responsible to manage and coordinate the successful delivery of strategic Operations projects with low complexity and tactical Operations projects with high complexity.
Utilizes and provides project management expertise to direct multi-disciplined project teams and coordinates interaction with functional disciplines.
Establishes priorities and gathers the resources necessary to staff the work teams.
Projects typically meet some or all of the following criteria; 5 or fewer persons on the project team; 1 or 2 disciplines involved; 1 or 2 departments with the facility involved; scope in dollars is less than $500,000 and is determined on budget, revenues generated, savings, etc.
**What skills you need**:
- Develops, tracks, and meets the capital and expense budget, generally at the project level.
- Plans and executes project planning to incorporate and align the task elements of the Operations processes into the overall project schedule.
Includes acquiring a solid project management discipline and skill foundation to execute the project successfully.
- Schedules and tracks progress of all aspects of the project to aggressively work toward successful project completion in a timely manner.
- Schedules and facilitates regular review meetings with the project Champion and Steering Committee.
Keeps Steering Committee and Champion informed of project progress and needs.
Includes documentation and reporting of all relative activities on a regular basis back to the Steering Committee and Champion.
- Coordinates implementation activities with functional disciplines to plan and implement projects.
- Adheres to existing Operations processes, contributes to their improvement, and expects the same of others.
- Provides day to day work direction and assistance to a group of professional staff, primarily in the context of work needed against project plans.
Includes coaching and counseling project team members, and develops project management skills in team members.
- Participates in the planning process of operational improvement projects, to determine the strategic direction, schedule and method of the project.
**What makes you stand out**:
- Knowledge of process management principles, tools and integration.- Skill in business plan development.- Understanding of Deere Production System, Lean Manufacturing, Just-in
- Time, Kanban, Demand Flow Technology.- Knowledge of manufacturing and/or distribution processes, Enterprise Product Delivery Process (EPDP), Enterprise Order Fulfillment Process (EOFP) and the Deere Production System.- Understanding of quality management principles, tools and processes.- Knowledge of capital budgeting and capital equipment justification process.
**Education**:
Bachelor´s degree related to field or equivalent experience.