Position: Director, Project Management Office

Reports to: Chief Manufacturing Officer

Location: Loveland, CO

Division: Project Management

Salary: $138,100 to184,200 (Depends on Experience)

About Lightning

The Lightning team works with forward-thinking fleets to engineer, deliver, and manage full transportation electrification solutions, including vehicles, charging, data analysis, and energy infrastructure.

Lightning eMotors has been providing specialized and sustainable fleet solutions since 2009, deploying complete zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) solutions for commercial fleets since 2018 – including Class 3 cargo and passenger vans, ambulances, Class 4 and 5 cargo vans and shuttle buses, Class 4 Type A school buses, Class 6 work trucks, Class 7 city buses, and motor coaches. The Lightning eMotors team designs, engineers, customizes, and manufactures zero-emission vehicles to support the wide array of fleet customer needs with a full suite of control software, telematics, analytics, and charging solutions to simplify the buying and ownership experience and maximize uptime and energy efficiency.

Why join Us?

Here at Lightning, we focus on innovation, exceeding expectations, collaboration, integrity in our work, and respect for all.

We are a fast-growing company scaling our teams and capabilities while also maintaining our leadership within the commercial electric vehicle market. This is your opportunity to be an integral part of the team, working with like-minded professionals who are dedicated not only to making a difference in our world but also transforming the automotive industry.

About our Headquarters

We are headquartered in the heart of beautiful Northern Colorado!

Loveland is located just 45 minutes north of Denver/DIA; 40 minutes from Boulder; 35 minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park/Estes Park; and only 15 minutes from Fort Collins, the home of Colorado State University. Whether you are an art lover, outdoor enthusiast, foodie, wildlife admirer, big-city dreamer, or just want to get away, Loveland is the ideal location; and Lightning eMotors is grateful to be a part of this wonderful city.

Visit us at: www.lightningemotors.com to learn more about our organization and living in Colorado!

Position Summary

This position is responsible for the successful leadership of multiple complex and cross-functional programs as well as defining and managing the scope of customer outputs to each function within Lightning eMotors. The person in this role will ensure that efforts span across the full program lifecycle including Concept Development, Bid and Proposal, Research and Development, Scale Production, Upgrades, and In-service Support. The Director will lead multi-disciplinary teams; actively engage with leadership, program stakeholders, and customers to ensure program success; as well as be comfortable in a working director role. Our ideal candidate is somebody who is not only willing to do the work alongside their team as needed, but who is also experienced working toward the bigger picture.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance for all program activities, including planning, organizing, and managing matrixed resources
• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to cross-functional team members and junior program managers
• Drive others to execute work by building positive relationships to ensure a high level of integration and cross functional collaboration among various departments
• Lead various internal and external cross-functional program review meetings
• Create and maintain detailed and actionable open issues lists and Master Program Timelines
• Serve as the central control point for progress of open issues, roadblock resolution, risk mitigation and escalation
• Develop and implement process improvements in line with an Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) mindset
• Lead cross functional teams in following the Gate Process
• Lead new business pursuits by creating business cases, pursuit strategy, and risk analysis in conjunction with Sales, as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies

• Leadership: Exhibit the ability to influence and guide a team by fostering a creative environment, inspiring confidence within the group, making tough decisions, having crucial conversations, and showing compassion.
• Project Management: Ability to lead and direct cross-functional teams, make timely decisions, and develop strategies while holding teams accountable for meeting deadlines.
• Communication: Demonstrated ability to interact respectfully with all colleagues and customers. Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills are essential along with the ability to listen intently to others. Comfortable presenting formal communications with senior leaders including C-Suite members.
• Time management: Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, remain organized, and focused on work in a manufacturing environment. You should be comfortable working under pressure to meet short and often inflexible deadlines, as well as complete tasks independently.
• Scale-Up Mentality: Maintain an agile mindset and can deal with change in a productive manner. You should be willing to balance time and effort with the ups and downs of deadlines.
• Analytical: Capable of identifying solutions to unusual and complex problems; utilize creative problem-solving; and analyze available data.

What we require:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or closely related field
• 10+ years of Program Management leadership experience in automotive manufacturing or similar industry
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary/technical teams using systems engineering processes
• Demonstrated knowledge of planning processes, including critical path analysis and risk mitigation
• Experience with ERP system, NetSuite is preferred
• Intermediate to Expert experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

What we prefer:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, MBA, or advanced degree in a similar area

• Demonstrated AQPQ knowledge
• Demonstrated experience within a matrix organization
• Demonstrated experience with Smartsheets/MS Project
• Financial Analysis experience (e.g. ROI, business case, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience driving complex products from development to production

Benefits offered:

Once hired, employees are offered generous benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account and Health Reimbursement Plan (if enrolled in medical plan)
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (accrued)
• Paid holidays
• Short and Long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Lightning eMotors is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, military or veteran status.

Note: Statements included in this description are intended to reflect in general, the duties and responsibilities of this position and are not to be interpreted as being all-inclusive.

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