Strong understanding of how engineering release, procurement, planning, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer commitments interact to affect delivery.
Strong command of milestone management, dependency tracking, risk escalation, readiness reviews, and execution governance.
Ability to distinguish between status reporting and true execution control and follow-through.
Strong business acumen and ability to translate priorities into coordinated action across multiple functions.
Ability to communicate and facilitate effectively to create clarity, accountability, and urgency without direct authority over every function involved.
Strong analytical and organizational skills to manage a broad, evolving portfolio of priorities.
Solid recordkeeping and document control to ensure compliance with company policy and procedures.
Ability to identify problems, drive resolution, and sustain follow-through.
Ability to delegate.
Responsibilities
Lead a portfolio of cross-functional execution programs that improve launch readiness, delivery performance, operating discipline, systems enablement, and scalable business execution.
Ensure major initiatives are translated into coordinated action across the business, and maintain portfolio visibility, prioritization, follow-through, and risk escalation while preserving functional ownership within departments.
Hire, develop, evaluate, and influence effective and consistent productivity and teamwork to support customer service delivery.
Model, promote, reinforce, and reward use of the company's Values Based Leadership tools, models, and processes in alignment with its vision, values, and mission.
Own a cross-functional execution portfolio supporting backlog delivery, launch readiness, operational scalability, and business performance improvement.
Provide leadership, structure, prioritization, follow-through, and escalation across programs, including new product introduction coordination, project execution and delivery, Spray King program coordination, systems development and enhancements, shop-floor continuous improvement initiatives, throughput scaling, cost and margin improvement programs, delivery reliability initiatives, data and performance visibility initiatives, and interim leadership of assigned business programs such as Logistics until permanent ownership is established.
Lead launch governance, readiness checkpoints, and Engineering-to-Operations transition discipline for new and evolving products.
Drive cross-functional coordination, milestone visibility, and risk escalation from order release through shipment for active projects and customer programs.
Ensure each assigned program has defined objectives, ownership, milestone visibility, and escalation paths.
Maintain clear visibility into program status, dependencies, changes, threatened commitments, and recovery actions.
Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, Operations, Quality, Sales Support, Field Service, and Accounting to align internal readiness with customer commitments.
Regularly reassess portfolio priorities based on business conditions, growth needs, customer commitments, and leadership direction.
Coordinate business-driven ERP improvements, dashboards, and automation initiatives to improve execution visibility and follow-through.
Support delivery reliability, customer experience, and issue escalation processes through proactive risk identification and coordinated response.
Track KPI alignment, program progress, and initiative return on investment to support decision-making and leadership visibility.
Work safely and adhere to applicable safety policies and company policies, procedures, and standards.
Perform other duties as assigned.
The Program Manager leads a portfolio of cross-functional execution programs that improve launch readiness, delivery performance, operating discipline, systems enablement, and scalable business execution. This role ensures major initiatives are translated into coordinated action across the business. The role owns portfolio visibility, prioritization, follow-through, and risk escalation across critical business programs while preserving functional ownership within the departments. Success in this role means fewer surprises, stronger launch and pre-production discipline, cross-functional follow-through, and consistent delivery against customer commitments. The portfolio is expected to evolve with business priorities and is not limited to the examples listed in this description.
The incumbent in this position is expected to model the following practices daily:
Demonstrate alignment with the company's mission and core business values;
Collaborate with key internal/external resources;
Participate in ongoing self-development.
Hires, develops, evaluates, and influences effective and consistent productivity and teamwork to ensure the delivery of Legendary Customer Service (LCS)
Models, promotes, reinforces, and rewards the consistent use of HOLT’s Values Based Leadership (VBL) tools, models, and processes to ensure alignment with our Vision, Values, and Mission
Owns a cross-functional execution portfolio that supports backlog delivery, launch readiness, operational scalability, and business performance improvement
Provides leadership, structure, prioritization, follow-through, and escalation across programs that may include, but are not limited to, New Product Introduction (NPI) coordination, project execution and delivery, Spray King program coordination, systems development and enhancements, shop floor continuous improvement initiatives, throughput scaling, cost and margin improvement programs, delivery reliability initiatives, data and performance visibility initiatives, and interim leadership of assigned business programs such as Logistics until permanent ownership is established
Leads launch governance, readiness checkpoints, and Engineering-to-Operations transition discipline for new and evolving products
Drives cross-functional coordination, milestone visibility, and risk escalation from order release through shipment for active projects and customer programs
Ensures each assigned program has defined objectives, ownership, milestone visibility, and escalation paths
Maintains clear visibility to program status, dependencies, changes, threatened commitments, and recovery actions
Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, Operations, Quality, Sales Support, Field Service, and Accounting to align internal readiness to customer commitments
Regularly reassesses portfolio priorities based on business conditions, growth needs, customer commitments, and leadership direction
Coordinates business-driven ERP improvements, dashboards, and automation initiatives to improve execution visibility and follow-through
Supports delivery reliability, customer experience, and issue escalation processes through proactive risk identification and coordinated response
Tracks KPI alignment, program progress, and initiative ROI to support decision-making and leadership visibility
Works safely always and adheres to all applicable safety policies; complies with all company policies, procedures, and standards
Performs other duties as assigned
Strong understanding of how engineering release, procurement, planning, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer commitments interact to affect delivery
Strong command of milestone management, dependency tracking, risk escalation, readiness reviews, and execution governance
Ability to distinguish between status reporting and true execution control and follow-through
Strong business acumen and ability to translate priorities into coordinated action across multiple functions
Excellent communication and facilitation skills with the ability to create clarity, accountability, and urgency without direct authority over every function involved
Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to manage a broad, evolving portfolio of priorities
Solid recordkeeping and document control to ensure compliance with company policy and procedures
Ability to identify problems, force resolution, and sustain follow-through