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The Senior Program Manager owns end-to-end delivery of programs of moderate complexity, manages cross-functional dependencies and risks, and ensures program teams remain aligned on scope, timing, trade-offs, and execution priorities.\nThe Senior Program Manager brings structure to ambiguity, connects decisions to business outcomes, and maintains visibility across programs within their product line or line of business. This role is expected to identify resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and dependency overlaps, surface risks early, facilitate difficult trade-off decisions, and keep teams focused on the work required to deliver intended outcomes.\nThis position works closely with product management, engineering, service, manufacturing operations, supply chain, marketing, quality, finance, IT, and other cross-functional partners. Success in this role is measured by predictable execution, clear program ownership, strong stakeholder alignment, proactive risk management, and on-time delivery of business and customer outcomes.\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities:\nOwn end-to-end delivery of assigned programs of moderate complexity through planning, execution, launch readiness, and closeout.\nDevelop, maintain, and communicate integrated program plans that reflect scope, timing, capacity, dependencies, risks, milestones, and key decision points.\nOwn the end-to-end program schedule, ensuring critical path, dependencies, sequencing constraints, and execution risks are visible and actively managed.\nMaintain visibility across related programs within the product line or line of business and identify resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and dependency overlaps.\nMaintain alignment between program plans and business objectives, identifying scope creep and dependency-driven scope risk early.\nFacilitate trade-off discussions when scope, schedule, cost, capacity, customer needs, or downstream commitments conflict.\nTranslate product requirements and business objectives into clear delivery scope, milestones, and product realization plans in partnership with Product and Engineering.\nLead programs through Generac NPI processes, including milestone, design, and gate reviews using accurate, decision-ready information.\nDrive execution with appropriate urgency by identifying blockers, clarifying ownership, escalating risks, and ensuring teams understand the decisions and actions required to maintain progress.\nUnderstand technical decisions at a systems level and surface schedule, cost, compliance, integration, or dependency implications proactively.\nFacilitate cross-functional alignment with documented outcomes, clear ownership, and proactive management of inter-team dependencies and conflicts.\nPrepare program status updates that are concise, decision-ready, and appropriate for senior 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software, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, service, and launch readiness.\nExperience managing programs within a product line or portfolio, including prioritization, sequencing, resource constraints, dependencies, and business trade-offs.\nPMP, PgMP, Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent certification with demonstrated practical application.\nExperience working with global teams, international suppliers, or distributed development and manufacturing organizations.\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nDemonstrated ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous cross-functional work and confidently challenge unclear assumptions.\nDemonstrated ability to own program outcomes rather than simply task completion.\nAbility to design, explain, and defend program logic including scope, assumptions, dependencies, trade-offs, critical path, and risk posture.\nAbility to connect program decisions to business and customer outcomes including schedule, cost, quality, operational readiness, and 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The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting; close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.\nGenerac is committed to fair and equity compensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Waukesha, WI is $133,500 - $173,500. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills, certifications and geographic location. 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