Production Project Manager

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With a 40+ year commitment to delivering breakthrough customer experiences, seizing initiatives, achieving results, and continuous learning, our award-winning company, Park Square Homes, has an opportunity for a talented Production Project Manager to join our team. Known for our entrepreneurial spirit, we have a strong culture rooted in trust, integrity, open communication, and respect, and we make it a point to use good judgment, fairness, and common sense to meet our challenges. Attracting top talent who can thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, family-oriented, efficient, and team-focused environment contributes to our success.

Job Overview: As the Production Project Manager working for Park Square Homes, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and driving Cadence Construction for the divisions that align all needed resources to meet divisional yearly plans. Continuous communication with Construction and Purchasing teams to assist with identifying shortfalls, opportunities, and process improvements in order to keep production moving forward. Work directly with VP of Construction, Directors, and ACMs to keep production pace by working with purchasing and starts. You are the liaison between Construction and Purchasing departments in order to keep production moving forward and guide adherence to critical milestones from start to completion and assist with addressing production issues if the process falls off track.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage starts/releases: Performed weekly that compliments the Community Cycle Plan (CCP) and desired production universe to meet desired divisional cadence plan.
• Slotting Tool: Slot all homes at sale using slotting mythology in order to provide a forecasted start and closing forecast for 100% company predictable alignment.

• Centrally Manage Weekly Starts: Lead weekly starts meeting and utilizing 100% Prestart Prism reports in order to drive predictability and identify all shortfalls causing delays in order to meet the divisions start per week cadence plan. Centrally manage starts and drive adherence to forecasted starts, Frame Starts, Drywall, Cabinets, QC and Final CO.

• Purchasing Liaison: Work with the Purchasing team in order to create optimal division areas for distribution of partnership workload.
• Cycle Time Adherence: Review, develop and manage Prism schedules for cycle time efficiency. Assure sequence of activities are optimal and cycle time is efficient with the allowable acceptable dead days for weather delays.
• Construction Liaison: Manage and hold all Superintendents accountable for Prism Schedules daily update adherence.
• Communication: Provide weekly communication to the Division on what month/week slots the team is selling for.
• Inventory Management: Manage Inventory plan developed by Operations team that communicates Spec homes in Process, Spec homes Complete, Spec homes in the permit process and Spec homes permits approved but on the shelf for immediate start once released.
• Meeting Lead: Lead weekly production meeting with Construction Directors/ACM’s for an accurate update of all homes under production. Manage Vendor Schedule adherence.
• Cycle Time Driver: Provide solutions and recommendations for cycle time improvement and adherence.
• Staffing Understanding/Needs: Review and recommend to VP of Construction appropriate staffing to meet community management and production needs.
• Trade Partner Awareness: Review and recommend to VP of Purchasing and VP of Construction appropriate trade partner change opportunities, discipline for no shows causing other vendors to be delayed, and recommendations for new trades and capacity needs based on growth.
• Metrics Driven: Provide bi-weekly Company metrics around even flow starts and closings, schedule adherence metrics for identified milestones and provide analysis and recommendation for improvement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies:

• Negotiation Skills: Strong negotiation abilities to secure cost-effective contracts and favorable terms with vendors.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled in working with multiple departments to meet shared company objectives.

• Leadership and Management Skills: Excellent leadership and team-building abilities. Strong strategic planning and project management skills. Ability to manage IT budgets and resources effectively.
• Communication Skills: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Interviewing, selecting, and training employees.
• Appraising productivity; handling employee grievances or complaints, or disciplining employees.
• Planning the work.
• Apportioning work among employees.
• Planning budgets for work.
• Monitoring work for legal or regulatory compliance.
• Providing safety and security of the workplace.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Superintendent, Project Manager or Cadence Administrator role .
• Understands production scheduling, sequence, batching, and capacity.
• Proficient to Expert in Prism or like scheduling programs with the ability to update and improve schedules.
• Understands production scheduling, sequence, batching, and capacity.
• Demonstrated leader of Contractors, Suppliers and Superintendents in order to achieve buy in that improves our operational process, adherence, and predictability.
• Leader that drives results through process improvement.
• Problem solver and not a problem reporter.
• Ability to collaborate and sell processes upward for leadership buy-in.
• Skilled communicator across a wide range of disciplines.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work in an office setting, with occasional travel to job sites and supplier locations.
• Must be able to able to remain in a stationary position up to 50% of the time.
• Capability to lift and carry materials or documents up to 25 lbs. as needed.
• Prolonged periods of sitting, standing, and computer use