JOB SUMMARY The Ops Project Manager III will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for a defined customer (internal or external) or user. Provide management and guidance to multi-functional project teams. Manage and enhance customer relationships. Provide full accountability for project schedules, project management and performance requirements for enterprise level projects. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ·         Responsible for ensuring all of the project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution ·         Build team(s) to address the project goals and objectives ·         Collaborate with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance/ approval ·         Align the project team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the project ·         Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators allocated to projects ·         Provide guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives ·         Communicate project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives ·         Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s) ·         Manage development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) or metrics ·         Responsible for recognizing project's Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manage the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints ·         Drive project to completion in accordance with the project schedule ·         Coordinate the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks ·         Management of Resource capacity and time tracking allocated to the project ·         Participates in the financial management and analysis of costs for projects, including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER’s) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs ·         Accountable for overall project success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management ·         Report project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results ·         Provide leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement ·         Recognize potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions ·         Identify best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e.