The Role
Manage multiple programs and cross-functional teams from quoting through completion, ensuring on-time launches, deliverables, profitability, quality, and financial targets. Responsibilities include team leadership, customer advocacy, risk analysis and mitigation, program reporting, issue escalation, business-case monitoring, and technical and financial oversight. The role requires strong program management, communication, leadership, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills in a product development environment.
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We work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn't believe. At Roush, you're part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges? Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged? If so, then keep reading.
We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense, and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.
The Senior Program Manager will manage multiple programs and teams to ensure program goals are achieved. The role will interact with multiple customers and cross functional teams. The Senior Program Manager will lead program teams(s) from quoting through completion of programs, ensuring financial goals are achieved. This position is located in Allen Park, MI.
As a Senior Program Manager, you will:
We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense, and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.
The Senior Program Manager will manage multiple programs and teams to ensure program goals are achieved. The role will interact with multiple customers and cross functional teams. The Senior Program Manager will lead program teams(s) from quoting through completion of programs, ensuring financial goals are achieved. This position is located in Allen Park, MI.
As a Senior Program Manager, you will:
- Manage, train, coach, and mentor a team(s) related to their job responsibilities.
- Ensure that timely and accurate reviews and routine reports are conducted on assigned program(s), using these tools to expose risks and elevate issues.
- Ensure program(s) launch on time and meet deliverables.
- Meet profitability and capital financial targets throughout program(s) life cycle.
- Monitor timing, quality, technical and financial risks, and issues on assigned program(s).
- Determine post launch profitability as early as possible in development and report gaps to business case profitability.
- Act as a customer advocate when conferring with other departments and provide direction on program(s) requirements and priorities within the Roush organization.
- Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and technical support to team members.
- Mitigate risks through risk analysis and quantification and resolving issues.
- Elevate and focus management attention when there is not timely resolution.
- Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering.
- Minimum of 6 years’ program management experience.
- U.S. citizen under International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance.
- Proven track record of program management processes (Project Scope Amendment (PSA), risk identification).
- Working knowledge of program management tools (risk analyses, communication plans, timing plans, business cases, comprehensive financial analyses).
- Strong leadership and management skills, ability to solve complex problems, work independently, and be customer, cost, quality, and delivery focused.
- Excellent Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a product development environment.
- Minimum of 2 years of formal or informal leadership experience.
- Program Management Professional certification.
Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, employee referral bonuses, paid vacation, paid holidays.
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Roush is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories
If you need a reasonable accommodation for our employment application process due to disability, please contact Roush Talent Acquisition at (734) 779-7087.
Visit our website: www.roush.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RoushCareers
Roush is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories
If you need a reasonable accommodation for our employment application process due to disability, please contact Roush Talent Acquisition at (734) 779-7087.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or engineering
- Minimum of 6 years of program management experience
- U.S. citizenship under International Traffic in Arms Regulations compliance
- Proven track record with program management processes, including Project Scope Amendment and risk identification
- Working knowledge of program management tools, including risk analyses, communication plans, timing plans, business cases, and comprehensive financial analyses
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Ability to solve complex problems and work independently
- Customer, cost, quality, and delivery focus
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a product development environment
- Minimum of 2 years of formal or informal leadership experience
- Program Management Professional certification
Roush Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roush and has not been reviewed or approved by Roush.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as platinum-level and affordable, including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, telemedicine, and wellness supports such as EAP, diabetes, and tobacco-cessation programs. Core protections like short- and long-term disability and life/AD&D are highlighted as strengths.
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Retirement Support — An employer-matched 401(k) is emphasized, with plan features such as profit-sharing elements, auto-enrollment, and loan availability that enhance accessibility. The retirement offering is characterized as competitive and a standout within the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, paid holidays, and earned sick time are provided alongside leaves for family/medical needs, pregnancy/adoption, military duty, jury duty, and bereavement. The breadth supports varied time-off needs across different life events.
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