Project Manager - Warehousing

Location: Dammam

Job Summary:

The role will be responsible for monitoring project progress, deliverables, quality assurance, and customer service via use of company launch governance/approach including supporting Project Management Tools. Report status to customer and identify and resolve risks that impact project completion. Manage time and budget for the customer, initiate action to identify and resolve problems, and ensure goals are met. Coordinates planning, development, testing, documentation, and installation of project to ensure timely deliverables, project success and quality. Develop good working relationships with the customer project manager; ensures that we establish excellent two-way communication clearly outlining DP Worlds needs to be successful and risks where we need customer input. The objective is that a good customer relationship will ensure that both parties are focused on being successful together.

Key Accountabilities:

• Adhere to the launch governance/approach with a focus on working closely together (in-tandem) with the Ops Launch Leads/Site Manager elect for Greenfield locations or with the Site Manager of existing operations.
• Ensuring that the Project Expenditure Approval Requests (EAR’s) for launch resource costs and new capital expenditure are well documented and presented to the Executive for approval.
• Ensuring that the project team assigned is strong enough and well qualified to implement the project in question. Should this not be the case it is expected that the Project Manager would escalate this accordingly for input and support.
• Manage the Define Phase closely with the project/local team, so that we can eventually present it to the customer for playback/ approval. Co-ordinate/agree on the detailed Business Scope Document including the full solution and present to the customer for written approval/signoff. This would ensure that both DP World and the customer have a common understanding of the scope of work undertaken.
• Management and supervision of all project disciplines and their assigned resources.
• Advanced Quality Planning – focus on ensuring appropriate Quality Operating System documentation is completed in a timely manner whilst ensuring that the operating processes are robust; which should be bought off internally by Operations and other cross-functional team members.
• Develop, maintain & follow a detailed Launch Implementation Plan with focus on the following:
• Weekly 1:1follow-up with internal project team functional leads on the timeliness of task completion and making sure that they have the appropriate tools and support to meet their goals.
• Weekly Launch Implementation Plan reviews with the full project team to review critical paths/dependencies/ impact on slip in functional timelines and put a corrective action plan in place to mitigate same with the project team.
• Twice Weekly supervision of internal project team meetings to review existing open issues, new open issues, next steps etc. and ensure that the communication and dynamics within the project team will support the success of the project.
• Supervision/Lead Weekly joint customer project team meetings to discuss new customer information/ open issues/status/next steps etc.
• Maintain, Update & distribute weekly Senior Management Team (SMT) Flash updates or bi-weekly Flash updates for Steering Committee review so that it presents an honest reflection of the project’s status when reviewed with the Steering Committee
• Review, communicate and escalate critical project issues with the Project Sponsors/ SMT Team in a timely manner.
• Schedule &/or facilitate project meetings (Steering Committee, Customer, Project Team [functional specific], Suppliers etc.) as required to ensure that all aspects of the project are dealt with professionally and efficiently.
• Manage/track the Project Budget.
• Provide leadership, support & training to project team members and new operational staff – the Project Manager should ensure that the whole team works in harmony and should lead by example with a high-level expectation of success.

Qualification, Experience & Skills:

Degree - bachelor’s degree; experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Experience – Minimum 5 years+ experience in Project Management in a logistics/manufacturing environment ideally in either the Automotive or Technology verticals. Operational/ Engineering Experience an advantage but not essential. Engineering/Six Sigma Background desirable.

Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.

Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Results oriented - You are proactive in handling competing priorities and meet your deadlines and commitments; you always demonstrate a “can do” positive attitude.

Strong communication skills - You are an exceptional listener. You communicate clearly. You write exceptionally well, and you speak eloquently. You’re comfortable on the phone or to groups of people – at any level. You are incredibly tactful when delivering the facts.

Strong collaborator - You can work independently because you self-manage, with limited direction and guidance, but you also enjoy collaborating across dynamic and multi-cultural teams and are personable, helpful and incredibly organized.

Good Problem Solver - You enjoy solving problems. Getting to the root cause. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative, innovative solutions. You don’t get flustered easily. If you don’t know the answer, you’ll dig until you find it.

Detail oriented - You pay strong attention to the details as it is one of your core qualities.

Travel – Requirement to travel up to 100% of the working week in line with business needs.