VP, Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO)

Primary Job Role

Develop and maintain a framework for defining projects and determining which projects should be overseen by the EPMO vs within individual departments. Coordinate closely with IT around the intersection between EPMO and IT projects.

Develop a framework for making go/no go decisions on new projects that incorporates a view on return on investment, risk mitigation and alignment with corporate vision and strategic priorities.

Develop an approach for staffing projects drawing from corporate and/or division resources. Coordinate with department leaders around utilization of their resources including potentially tracking associated costs.

Assist the BOD / Operating Committee translate corporate priorities into project opportunities that enhance the company’s ability to achieve its vision and strategic objectives. Serve as an advisor and resource to the CEO and the BOD / Operating Committee around all topics related to high-priority projects.

Develop project management best practices / standards and identify training opportunities for project management team participants.

Build a technology enabled project management data repository for the organization that tracks the status of high priority projects that makes it easy for key stakeholders to remain apprised.

Monitor progress of projects, meet regularly with project team leads and members and problem solve emerging real time issues with project teams.

Regularly communicate the status of projects to the CEO, the Operating Committee and other key stakeholders across the organization.

Directly manage certain high priority projects recruiting team members, establishing project plan, coordinating efforts of project team members and ensuring successful project completion.

Oversee and support projects not directly managed by the EPMO and act as a coach to project leaders and their project teams.

Essential Job Competencies

Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.

Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.

Leadership and Team Development: Has the competence and presence to effectively and credibly lead the EPMO and mentor project leaders and assist them in building their teams.

Prioritization and Portfolio Management: Has the capability to translate corporate priorities into project opportunities. Develops and implements supporting decision-making frameworks to enable the CEO and Operating Committee to effectively evaluate, prioritize and monitor proposed and ongoing projects.

Standards development: Leverages their knowledge of project management best practices to effectively codify and share a set of standards that will improve the quality and success of project execution across the enterprise and identify/develop associated training.

Interpersonal Skills: Builds productive trust-based relationships at multiple levels of the organization ranging from the CEO, the Operating Committee, department leaders, mid-level managers and front-line employees.

Communication: Has strong oral and written communication skills that can be leveraged to keep the organization up to do and well aligned around high priority projects.

Productive Confidence: Has the confidence to intervene in situations, even with superiors, where emerging risks/shortfalls need to be identified, assessed and resolved.

Financial Acumen: Has a solid foundation in finance and is able to view opportunities and risks through a financial lens including evaluating P&Ls and return on investment proposals.

Technology and Data Fluency: Has the ability to leverage software/online tools to build a project management data repository and has adequate technology fluency to effectively communicate and coordinate with IT.

Organizations Skills: Is highly organized and is able to effectively monitor a wide range of activities across the organization real time and act as a real time information resource to stakeholders.

Problem Solving Skills: Is able to assess changing circumstances and lead problem solving efforts to mitigate emerging risks and exploit potential opportunities.

In 1962, Ring Power Corporation became a full-line Caterpillar dealer in North Florida, and later expanded its authorized territory to include Central Florida.

Today, Ring Power Corporate headquarters in St. Augustine oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando and crane and forklift sales and service facilities in Pompano. Ring Power also has five facilities outside of Florida - The Carolinas, Georgia, & Texas- to serve the needs of other specialized industries and customers.

Ring Power Corporation has become one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the Southeastern United States through dedication to the mission of customer service. In order to preserve the "Customers First" reputation that Ring Power was built on, we continually train our employees and work closely with our customers to assure complete satisfaction, especially after the sale.

Currently, more than 2,700 employees at 20+ locations throughout Florida and the United States work hard to provide the highest quality construction equipment, backed by responsive, professional service and support at every level.

Education and Experience

Formal Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study. Training in project management as well as process improvement frameworks such as “Lean” and “Six Sigma” and knowledge of supporting analytical project management tracking software programs such as Microsoft Project.  

Experience: Over five years of experience leading project teams and tracking multiple projects simultaneously utilizing a broad set of technology tools.

Required / Credentials

Bachelor’s Degree

Not Required, but Highly Desirable

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma certification

Updating of Knowledge

Job requirements change requiring re-training to stay current every 1-2 years.

Responsibility for Change, Innovation, Overall Improvement, and/or Effectiveness

Problem Solving Job requires complex problem-solving ability with little Independent research and analysis are sometimes required to develop solutions.

Creativity Job requires creativity as part of carrying out daily New approaches are encouraged.

Autonomy Job is not monitored. Involvement in determining overall objectives is encouraged. Use of discretion in how the work is done, setting priorities and decision making is Achieving desired outcomes is evaluated with little emphasis on process.

Working Environment

Stress Load Regular exposure to these stresses (20-80% of the time).

Workload Fluctuation Job frequently involves changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of

Work Schedule Work is routinely performed during regular business hours with rare

Organizational Impact

A person's performance in this job has significant impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department and company objectives.

Supervisory Responsibility

Job may involve leadership responsibility for one or more mid-level subordinate team members and grow over time.

Physical Demands

• "NA": Not Applicable
• "O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
• "F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
• "C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

Environmental Conditions

• "NA": Not Applicable
• "O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)
• "F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)
• "C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

C: Inside conditions: Protection from weather but not necessarily from temperature change.
N/A: Outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
N/A: Extreme cold: Temperatures below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour.
N/A: Extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour.
N/A: Noise: sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout to be heard above the ambient noise level
N/A: Vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities of whole body.
N/A: Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions (i.e. proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working in high places, exposure to heat and/or chemicals.
N/A: Atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: Fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation.
N/A: Oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
N/A: Air particulates / contaminants: the worker is required to wear respirator.

RING POWER CORPORATION, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER