Vice President Of Modularization

Position: Program Executive

Reports to: President

Division: Special Projects

Status: Regular Full Time Position – Exempt/Salary

Value Proposition

Responsible for all aspects of the development/implementation of our modularization program and projects involving cross-functional teams focused on the delivery from design, fabrication, integration, and construction. Provide strategic thought and direction to project leaders to drive activities and achieve business objectives. Ensure the program execution and project delivery is planned, tracked, monitored, and adjusted to meet the client needs. Even if you aren't in the listed area, please don't hesitate to apply!

Key Responsibilities

Planning:

• Recommend/take action to direct the analysis of and solution to problems.
• Oversee the coordination of multi-company workflows and requirements.
• Make decisions in support of project strategies, driving critical path decisions, escalation of roadblocks for resolution and mitigates program and project risk.
• Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing business processes and develop sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable business process improvements.
• Direct team members in the daily/weekly project planning process.
• Manage execution of rollout strategies and new modular products by developing, updating, and completing the Module Execution Plan for multi-year contracts in multiple facilities with various trades (companies).
• Apply an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.

Project Execution:

• Implement controls over variables affecting job progress to ensure engineering and procurement provide timely delivery of drawings, materials, craft labor, and equipment.
• Direct the preparation of cost estimates and comparisons for modularization and preassemblies alternatives and present options for evaluation by Senior Leadership and Client.
• Develop and manage third party partners (Paint, Galvanizing, warehouse, suppliers, vendors), ensuring that they are meeting contractual commitments.
• Review, analyze, and report monthly on module program budget, schedule, productivity, and quality performance. Take appropriate action to intervene to return the project to plan.
• Develop project specific procedures and allocates resources.
• Manage key dependencies and interfaces between projects and program workstreams and liaising with senior management on risks and issues affecting delivery and mitigating risks.
• Provide project oversite and produces weekly/monthly forecasting that optimizes throughput and efficiency in execution plan.
• Direct implementation of program Safety & Health and Loss Control procedures and is responsible for ensuring that the program meets the agreed safety targets.
• Break down barriers for team, ensuring they have the resources needed for project success.
• Plan and recommend procedures to be implemented to ensure project execution plan is aligned with contract and estimate.

Modularization and Assembly

• Utilize prior experience in high-volume manufacturing to optimize throughput/efficiency in plan execution.
• Ensure step by step improvements in departmental processes that meet and enhance operational performance.
• Implement Six Sigma/Lean principals to understand business strategy and align processes to achieve optimal production.

Coach and Guidance

• Build the modulization team and provide leadership and developmental opportunities to cross-functional team to include engineering, procurement, production, quality assurance and safety.
• Proactively support, encourage, and facilitate team members to engage in continuous improvement activities.
• Instill a culture of high accountability on expected results.
• Develop organizational structure, including critical roles and responsibilities to support business objectives.
• Assess and support the change management effects associated with the implementation of improvement.
• Establish objective criteria for individual and team performance assessment centered around customer results.
• Lead and facilitate meetings at all levels of the organization to ensure cross alignment to parent company and subsidiaries strategy and to manage execution of plans to meet objectives.

Customer & Vendor Engagement:

• Regularly interact with executives and/or major customers to address complex issues, negotiations, and escalations.
• Identify opportunities for additional services/scope to leverage other subsidiaries and business units.
• Define and collaborate on sourcing strategies, pricing efforts and contractor selection.
• Own contractual requirements with client and manage changes timely.
• Ensure efficient and effective communication of program/project related information to all levels of the organization and external partners.
• Engage with third party suppliers presenting requirements and where appropriate negotiate service requirements (and if appropriate costs).
• Establish and maintain relationships and develop a high level of trust and credibility with clients, owners, stake holders, alliance partners, subcontractors, and suppliers. Serve as point of contact for customers as well as market opportunities.

Financials:

• Take responsibility to challenge unknown costs, deliver revenue, margin, and growth.
• Drive a weekly (or daily as required) Earn vs burn forecast for the modularization process.
• Coordinate multiple company job financials to roll-up into the Modularization P&L.
• Responsible for the project job cost reporting and forecasting to enable the business to achieve financial targets.
• Weekly Job cost vs estimate (identify opportunities and hard spots)
• Manage the modulization group budget and P&L, in collaboration with each stakeholder and business leaders. This includes the over/under utilization factors of production.

Education/Training - Work Experience

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent
• Building and installing tuckable modules
• Leading and managing cross functional (departmental) teams
• Subcontracting experience- managing subcontractors’ scope and progress
• Material Handling
• General Assembly
• Integration of multi-discipline trades in a shop environment
• PL responsibility
• Estimating multi-discipline scopes
• Workflow Planning
• Logistics
• BIM/ 3D modeling/ Advanced Work Packaging
• Scheduling
• Inventory Control
• Fabrication
• Custom OEM manufacturing
• Production Cost Accounting