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Blue Bird Corporation · 19 hours ago

Sr. Program Manager

Fort Valley, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Blue Bird Corporation is a technology leader and innovator of school buses, focusing on safety and reliability. The Sr. Program Manager is responsible for leading complex program offerings, ensuring project deliverables are met, and communicating status updates to stakeholders and management.

AutomotiveConsumerManufacturing

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Provides leadership, vision and direction for assigned project teams

Leads the development of the project scope, timing and budget, and coordinates activities to ensure projects are on time and on budget

Leverages the team’s input to develop detailed and achievable Microsoft Project timing plan

Creates and negotiates a Statement of Work (SOW) between internal stakeholders and third-party providers and monitors/assigns internal actions for completion of the SOW and key milestones

Communicates project deliverable expectations; planning, monitoring, and reviewing project tasks; ensures adherence to Blue Bird’s Product Development System (PDS)

Provides coaching and guidance to project team members

Identifies resource requirements needed to complete the project successfully and communicates needs to functional area leaders

Makes decisions and takes independent action on matters directly affecting project objectives

Evaluates project status continuously and regularly reports the status to Executive Management and key stakeholders

Prepares Gate Review documents for project approval and leads the review meeting with management

Review processes and documents with the team to ensure communication is concise; proposes ideas for continuous improvement

Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualification

Microsoft ProjectBudget ManagementProject ManagementPMP CertificationProcess DevelopmentBusiness AcumenLeadership SkillsCommunication SkillsTime ManagementInterpersonal Skills