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The role coordinates cross-functional workstreams, drives execution against agreed milestones and deliverables, and ensures clear ownership and timely closure of actions across the Thermal BU.\nWorking across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Product Management, Sales and Finance, the role provides active program management for key Thermal initiatives, identifies dependencies and risks, removes barriers to execution and provides clear escalation to BU leadership where required.\nThe role also governs, coordinates, tracks and drives to closure the actions generated through process improvement, continuous improvement, root-cause and corrective-action activities. Process mapping, process analysis, process design and identification of improvements remain the responsibility of the Process Improvement Manager and relevant functional owners.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nPMO AND PROGRAM GOVERNANCE\nEstablish, develop and manage the Thermal BU PMO, applying a consistent and practical governance framework across key BU programs and initiatives.\nMaintain a consolidated view of major programs, priorities, milestones, deliverables, risks, dependencies and outstanding actions.\nCoordinate cross-functional workstreams and ensure clear ownership, accountability and timing for key deliverables.\nDrive strategic and operational Thermal BU programs from initiation through implementation and closure.\nEstablish appropriate program reporting, decision and escalation mechanisms.\nProvide BU leadership with clear, concise visibility of program status, priorities, risks, blockers, dependencies and decisions required.\nIdentify cross-program conflicts in priorities, resources or timing and facilitate resolution across functions.\nCROSS-FUNCTIONAL EXECUTION\nAct as the central coordination point for programs requiring collaboration across Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Product Management, Sales and Finance.\nTranslate BU priorities and leadership decisions into structured workstreams with defined milestones, deliverables, owners and timelines.\nDrive cross-functional teams to deliver agreed actions and commitments while maintaining functional ownership of technical and operational decisions.\nIdentify barriers to execution and coordinate the appropriate functions to resolve them.\nEscalate critical risks, delays and resource constraints to BU leadership with clear actions and decision requirements.\nCapture decisions and commitments and track them through to completion.\nACTION MANAGEMENT AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS\nOwn the consolidated Thermal BU action-management process for key programs and improvement activities.\nEnsure actions have clearly defined owners, due dates, expected outcomes and appropriate evidence of closure.\nGovern, coordinate, track and drive actions generated through root-cause analysis, corrective-action activities and continuous- or process-improvement initiatives through to completion.\nTrack corrective actions through implementation and confirm that appropriate closure evidence is provided.\nIdentify overdue, blocked or at-risk actions and coordinate escalation where required.\nProvide visibility of action status, ageing, ownership and closure performance to BU leadership.\nEnsure actions and commitments are not lost between functional teams and accountability remains clear through closure.\nPROCESS AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT SUPPORT\nWork with the Process Improvement Manager and functional teams to support execution of agreed process and continuous-improvement initiatives.\nTranslate approved process-improvement outputs into structured actions, owners, milestones and deliverables.\nCoordinate and drive the cross-functional actions generated through process-improvement activities.\nTrack implementation progress, dependencies, resource constraints and barriers, escalating overdue or at-risk actions as appropriate.\nMaintain visibility of implementation status and agreed benefits associated with improvement actions.\nProvide PMO governance and execution discipline so approved improvement actions move from recommendation to implementation.\nThis role does not own process mapping, process analysis, process design or identification of improvements; these remain under the ownership of the Process Improvement Manager and relevant functional teams.\nPERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING\nDevelop and maintain PMO dashboards and KPIs for Thermal BU programs and actions.\nEstablish leading and lagging indicators to provide early visibility of execution risks.\nMonitor milestones, deliverables, action closure, overdue actions and other agreed performance indicators.\nEnsure consistent and accurate reporting across Thermal BU programs.\nProvide concise executive-level reporting on status, risks, blockers, milestone performance, outstanding actions, required decisions and cross-functional dependencies.\nUse program and action data to identify areas requiring management intervention or escalation.\nPMO STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICE\nDevelop and maintain Thermal BU program-management processes, standards, tools and templates.\nImprove consistency in the management of programs, actions, risks and deliverables across the BU.\nPromote disciplined program management while keeping governance practical and appropriate to business needs.\nSupport a culture of ownership, accountability, urgency and continuous improvement.\nSupport BU growth by ensuring program-management processes and governance are scalable.\nKEY OUTCOMES AND MEASURES OF SUCCESS\nOn-time delivery of key Thermal BU program milestones and deliverables.\nImproved 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