Sr. Project Manager, Engineering

Our Company

Can-do attitude? Motivated? Helpful? You’ve come to the right place.

At Ace, we’re a place where you can make an impact. A place where your help is not only wanted, it’s encouraged and celebrated. A place focused on the future, looking for new and better ways to compete in today’s marketplace. A place with an iconic history, a promising future and a competitive spirit. We like to win.

Sound like a place where you’d like to be? But wait, there’s more!

Our people are the foundation of what makes Ace great. We’re looking for the best people to help us fulfill our vision of being the most helpful hardware store on the planet. Join a competitive, fast-paced and friendly work environment and gain a sense of ownership, building on Ace’s continued success, and your own.

The impact you can have

The Senior Project Manager - Engineering will support the deployment and maintenance of Labor Incentive Program across all distribution centers and will support process improvement efforts throughout the network. Successful execution of this role requires cross functional collaboration with corporate business partners and site leadership teams.

What you’ll do

Build trust and a robust partnership as a foundation to support the RSC Operational Leadership and team members at all levels.

Support and execute the Labor Incentive Program deployments and maintenance for all Distribution Sites.

Manage a team of engineers to the successfully implement, monitor and maintain Labor Standards across all Distribution sites.

Manage visibility and reporting; monitor and report KPI’s and RSC trends / performance as well as provide support and recommendations through data mining and analysis

Continually partner with operations to drive performance improvement through the oversight of the distribution standard work program, visual management, reporting and continuous improvement activities.

Maintain Labor Standard records and governance program using Standards Pro Software and routinely audit for accuracy.  

What you need to succeed

Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Industrial Engineering, logistics or relevant business field.

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience with Manhattan WMOS and Labor Management with emphasis on leading Labor Management System deployments, Labor Standards Governance, and operational process improvement.   
• 3+ years’ experience strong analytical skills with an emphasis for data driven recommendations and decision making. 
• Experience with development and application of labor standards using time study work measurement and/or MOST application.
• Successful experience leveraging Lean leadership, quality programs and collaborative performance improvements.

Competencies

• Strong collaboration skills, ability to lead, influence, and communicate across field and corporate departments, at all levels.
• Communicator who is credible and self-assured with the ability to communicate effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to effectively communicate complex and technical requirements to non-technical personnel.
• Ability to emphasize, lead, and support our “Safety First” culture throughout DC operations.

Compensation Details:

$117900 - $147100 annually

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits* that address life’s necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity!)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met).  Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discreti