Senior Technical Project Manager - AirMIHybrid

Title: Senior Technical Project Manager - AirMI

Location: St. Charles, MO

Duration: 7-month contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Manages projects to drive value-add, impactful work that aligns to AirMI Strategy workstreams using best-in-class, Nike standard project management practices and tools. Also responsible for supporting the operation of engineering squads at a single location.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Technical or Project Management, Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Chemical Engineering or other related degree
• 7 additional years' closely related work experience may be considered in lieu of the degree
• 10+ years' experience in leading project teams within a high-volume manufacturing production, engineering, or technical environment
• Ability to work with associates of all levels including managers, engineers, machine operators, quality technicians, line supervisors, and maintenance technicians
• Comfortable speaking with multiple partners at varying levels, ability to synthesize detailed project tasks to report up high level accomplishments and risks
• Jira/Confluence and Smartsheet expertise required
• Executive Level communication skills
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional, geographically distributed project teams
• Program/Project Management (PMP Preferred)

Stakeholders

• Project manager will be a member of the Technical Project Management team, and lead projects consisting of teammates from multiple functions and locations
• This role also collaborates closely with cross-functional partners such as Supply Chain, Finance, Enterprise Health & Safety, Maintenance, Facilities, Quality Engineering, Materials Engineering, Design, Automation/Controls Engineering, and external partners

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Lead and manage project planning, execution, and delivery
• Contribute to functional excellence best practices and process development
• Foster effective teamwork and lead change
• Communicate vision and drive clarity across teams
• Support squad operations within a single location, including facilitating planning meetings and communicating with stakeholders, and updating and maintaining sources of record
• Demonstrate understanding and practice in core project management skills including schedule management, resource management, issue and risk management, and meeting facilitation
• Drive coordinated cross‐functional program team cohesion and effective collaboration across internal and external project team members
• Apply a detailed and methodical approach to problem solving
• Develop, execute, and communicate project plans using Nike and industry standard practices and tools
• Interpret statistical data to help drive project execution and problem solving
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure clear communication of project status, optimization of processes, timely deliveries to partners
• Apply proactive leadership approach – Communicate status to stakeholders optimally, with an emphasis on maintaining alignment with core project sponsors