Sr. Project Director

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Base pay range: $153,000–$224,400 per year

Company

Develops and delivers complex automation, material handling, software, controls, installation, commissioning, and service solutions for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead the planning, governance, execution, and delivery of a single enterprise-scale customer program valued at $250M–$500M.
• Own the full program lifecycle, from solution shaping, scope definition, and customer commitments through execution, commissioning, closeout, and lessons learned.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, commercial outcomes, margin protection, and cash-flow awareness.
• Establish executive steering routines, customer governance, escalation paths, decision forums, integrated plans, risk registers, and recovery plans.
• Act as the primary customer-facing leader with senior operations, supply chain, technology, finance, procurement, and C-suite stakeholders.
• Coach Senior Project Managers and cross-functional leaders while driving issue resolution, change control, supplier performance, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive project, program, or delivery leadership experience, including large-scale complex customer programs.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale programs valued at $250M or more; $500M, multi-site, or multi-year experience is strongly preferred.
• Executive presence and experience managing senior customer, supplier, partner, and internal leadership relationships.
• Strong commercial and financial discipline, including budget ownership, forecasting, margin protection, change orders, risk mitigation, and ROI focus.
• Experience leading Senior Project Managers, cross-functional teams, vendors, subcontractors, and matrixed workstreams.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required; a master’s degree and PMP certification are highly preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• PMP certification or additional project management methodology certifications.
• Experience with $500M, multi-site, or multi-year customer engagements.

Culture & Benefits

• Career development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Pay transparency.
• Global opportunities.