Description

Join the Carolina Cat Team 

As a family-owned company under our third generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed. 

Since 1926, we’ve supported our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce and by donating our time and resources to area nonprofits. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that’s built to last. 

We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential. 

Collectively, our employees work together to make a difference for our customers, our communities, and our company. Learn more about what it means to become a team member with Carolina Cat. 

Summary: Carolina Cat Power Systems (Power Systems) is a $90MM (2023 est.), fast growing, business unit of CTE, that delivers products, solutions/systems, and services for customers’ electric power requirements. These include generators, transfer switches, and other power generation & control systems. 

The Project Portfolio Manager (PPM) will have the key responsibility of leading our team (currently 3) of Project Managers to deliver exceptional financial & customer-satisfaction performance for our dynamic portfolio of customer projects involving power generation, power systems, and large service projects. The PPM will also directly & actively manage some projects himself/herself. She/He will conceptualize improvements & champion implementation of tools & processes to transform our Project Management performance & monitoring. 

Essential Functions: 

• Lead & Manage team of Project Managers:
  • Support, manage, and lead Project Managers to ensure their professional growth and wellbeing. Develop cadences for weekly & monthly 1-on-1’s to troubleshoot, support, and motivate performance towards business goals while generating opportunities for personal growth.
  • Develop and instill a culture of Performance Excellence in project management.
• Monitor, Report-out, and Drive project portfolio for performance:
  • Develop cadences for weekly & monthly review of portfolio with Project Managers to identify and act on opportunities & risks. Provide escalation & report-outs for management on portfolio performance & deviations.
  • Implement processes to exceed expectations for Gross-Margin improvement and customer satisfaction from order-intake to project close-outs.
• Transform Project Management for competitive differentiation & value-creation:
  • Understand/Levers the key levers & critical aspects for performance excellence related to the nature of our projects & stakeholders.
  • Review current processes and tools & identify short-term and medium-term step changes to transform Project Management function to best-in-class.
  • Work closely with Director -Operations, Continuous Improvement (CI), and others to implement transformation with urgency while ensuring continuity on existing projects.
• Coordinate with other functions & stakeholders for successful projects:
  • Work closely & build relationships with Sales, Service, Procurement, & Finance internally, and Key Customers and vendors to resolve issues and materialize opportunities for success.
• Project Management: Manage some key projects directly:
  • (Project Manager key responsibilities listed in appendix)

Supervisory Responsibilities 

This job has supervisory responsibilities for Project Managers. 

Work Relationship and Scope: Reports directly to the Director -Operations (Power Systems). Project Managers will report directly to this role. Works closely with Sales, Procurement, Service, Finance, Power Systems management, other functional leaders, customers, and vendors/suppliers 

Qualifications  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions. 

Education and/or Experience 

• Bachelor's degree - Business, Engineering, Accounting, or similar -
• PMP, PgMP, CAPM, and/or comparable project management certifications highly desirable.
• Five years or more of Project Management, Project Procurement, Project Financial Controls, or similar experience -
• Hands-on general-contractor projects or Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Project Management experience will be a plus.

Required Skills/Abilities:  

• Exceptional Project Management skills in a technical solutions/systems environment.
• Ability to quickly learn key technical aspects of projects including regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication skills including interpersonal and customer communications.
• Time management with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with Percent Of Completion (POC) Accounting will be a plus.

Computer Skills 

• Microsoft Office Suite – high level user of MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Proficient with & hands-on experience in any of Project Management software (MS Project, Project Server, Procore, etc.).

Workplace Requirements 

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Physical Demands  

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

frequently lift, carry, push, pull and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Employee must operate equipment in a safe manner. 

Work Environment  

While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer 

We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. 

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