PROJECT MANAGER, CUSTOMIZED TRAINING PROJECT (CTP) – TOYOTA BATTERY MANUFACTURING, NORTH CAROLINA (TBMNC)

PROJECT MANAGER, CUSTOMIZED TRAINING PROJECT (CTP) – TOYOTA BATTERY MANUFACTURING, NORTH CAROLINA (TBMNC)

Employer

Randolph Community College
629 Industrial Park Ave
Asheboro, NC 27205
Phone: 336-633-0200

Salary/Grade

Salary to Commensurate with Education and Experience

Benefits

Full-Time Benefits

Job Category

  • Professional

Application Period

Opens: Friday, January 6, 2023
Closes: Monday, March 13, 2023

Target Start Date

Friday, January 6, 2023

Expected Work Hours

40

Employment Type

Full-Time

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical, manufacturing, or management field or an AAS in a similar field with 5 years of progressive experience in project management
  • Five or more years’ experience managing projects, including monitoring project scope and budget, creating project schedules, managing project resources, resolving issues, and reporting status
  • Experience working with manufacturing management or manufacturing training and development

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

•  Analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills

•  Expertise leveraging data and analytics to identify solutions

•  Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and maintain a sense of urgency

•  Organizational skills with attention to detail

•  Results-oriented mindset with a drive to achieve success

•  Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with maximum discretion

•  Verbal and written communication skills and expertise to influence across various leadership levels

•  Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects under aggressive deadlines

•  Ability to respond to constant change and remain flexible

•  Relationship development and management across multiple agencies and departments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in technical, manufacturing, or management related area
  • Experience in the automotive or automotive supplier industry
  • Experience working in training/development or higher education
  • Experience working in manufacturing engineering, management, continuous improvement, or quality assurance/control/management
  • Supervisory experience
  • Experience in developing and implementing training programs in educational or other organizations, including direct classroom instruction experience.
  • Experience with grant implementation, reporting, and close out
  • Experience using the Colleague/Datatel system

Position Description

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:  The Project Manager Customized Training Project (CTP) – Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC) is the point person for the Workforce Development/Continuing Education department and college on the Toyota Battery Manufacturing, North Carolina (TBMNC) project. This individual will oversee project planning and implementation with TBMNC, RCC, and partner agencies to support the overall related workforce development goals.

 

The Project Manager will report to the Dean for Workforce Development & Continuing Education and is responsible for organizing, implementing, and administering the Customized Training Program project for TBMNC.  Primary duties and responsibilities include the development, delivery, and administration of the CTP course offerings at TBMNC. Other duties include maintaining the customized training budget for TBMNC, providing documentation of program successes, hiring adjunct faculty, conducting class visits, and working closely with TBMNC personnel on training needs.

 

This position is based on the first phase of the customized training project for TBMNC (two-year project) and is a time-limited position which is based on eligibility of funding. 

 

DUTIES:

  • Supports the TBMNC project for strategic workforce planning across multiple partners and entities
  • Works with a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team focused on strategy, planning, program alignment, and evaluation with a special focus on TBMNC workforce development
  • Partners with Client/Stakeholders/Subject Matter Experts to develop project outcomes and lead project implementation
  • Develops program communications and manages timelines ensuring the integrity of overall project
  • Coordinates participant and leader communications including a regular cadence of touchpoints providing ongoing project strategies to key stakeholders and Department Leaders
  • Monitors progress, and evaluate trends to ensure the needs of the business leaders and/or participants are addressed throughout the program
  • Develops and executes project plans, timelines, milestones and key metrics for talent development ensuring deliverables meet project objectives
  • Schedules and leads project workgroups with interagency and private sector partners
  • Supervises coordinator implementation of talent recruitment, assessment, and training strategies
  • Develops strategies to grow awareness and inspire participation in key TBMNC workforce programs

 

Faculty & Staff:

  • Recruits, interviews and hires credentialed faculty for the TBMNC project
  • Submits all hiring documents and verification of credentials for all TBMNC project faculty
  • Orients new faculty
  • Supervises and evaluates the operation of all TBMNC project classes and faculty in accordance with policy, including classroom observations
  • Assists TBMNC project faculty in developing instructional materials, instructional delivery, and classroom management
  • Assigns teaching schedules for TBMNC project faculty within workload policy guidelines
  • Serves as resources person to TBMNC project faculty
  • Facilitates the communication of departmental and/or college information to TBMNC project faculty via meeting, email, etc., as needed
  • Guides the Administrative Assistant assigned to the TBMNC project in record maintenance as required by Randolph Community College and the North Carolina Community College System, e.g. instructor contracts, payroll, student fee waivers, release forms and class attendance for course

 

Department Management:

  • Facilitates the selection and ordering of TBMNC project books and materials
  • Manages any conflict within TBMNC project; striving to find an amicable resolution
  • Reviews, evaluates, and assesses the TBMNC project programs periodically, facilitating innovation in curricular and instructional development in keeping with the mission and vision of the College
  • Ensures TBMNC project programs are in full compliance with the requirements for accreditation, certification, and other standards as stipulated by NCCCS
  • Develops and maintains productive relationships with those agencies and other organizations within the community/industry which are pertinent to the TBMNC project program and to prospective graduates

 

Budget Management:

  • Supports TBMNC project needs for personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, and other resources during the annual planning process to the Dean for Workforce Development & Continuing Education through the Good to Great and budget processes
  • Coordinates the requisition of resources and services, including equipment, supplies, facilities and other materials required for the effective delivery of instruction
  • Manages the TBMNC project budget, regularly monitoring the status of expenditures and implementing inventory control methods

 

Records:

  • Monitors and reviews part-time faculty records
  • Submits any required TBMNC project Annual Reports for NCCCS reporting

 

Administrative Expectations:

  • Remains current in discipline and instructional methods through professional development activities offered by the College and other opportunities including attendance at off- campus activities, webinars, conferences etc., as feasible
  • Participates in programs, departmental and institutional meetings and other announced co-curricular activities of the College
  • Ensures the confidentiality of educational records in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
  • Submits and maintains all documentation required by the NCCCS utilizing the appropriate Colleague/Datatel submittals and system.

 

 

COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS OF ALL EMPLOYEES:

  • Demonstrated excellence in written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. 
  • Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equal opportunity, and the academic, intellectual, and social development of all students and employees.
  • An understanding of and commitment to the comprehensive community college philosophy and mission.
  • Treats others respectfully, speaks to others courteously, and behaves in such a way that creates a workplace environment that is marked by trustworthiness, honest but polite communication, and interpersonal interactions that are both personally cordial and professionally appropriate.
  • Acts as a team player when working with any and all employees of the College.
  • Serves on institutional committees as appointed by the President.
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as needed.
  • Annually review all Randolph Community College safety rules and policies and be familiar with all emergency safety procedures.
  • Promote good safety habits and be compliant with OSHA safety regulations.
  • Randolph Community College conducts a background check and drug screening on all full-time new hires.

 

How to Apply

Interested and qualified individuals must apply online at https://www.randolph.edu/rcc-jobs.html.

Position is open until filled. 

Job Post Contact

Heather Clouston

Director of Human Resources

Randolph Community College

629 Industrial Park Avenue

Asheboro, NC  27205

336-633-0256