Director, Strategic Projects

Barnes Aerospace

Director of Strategic Projects at Barnes Aerospace managing capital investment projects and leading strategic project execution across North America. Collaborating with General Managers to drive business growth.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manages the North America (NA) Capital Budget and portfolio of capital projects.
Works with GMs at 7 sites to develop business cases for capital projects.
Serves as SME for capital business case development and approval processing.
Leads and provides project management for large capital investment projects.
Leads a diverse portfolio of strategic projects to help drive both top and bottom-line growth for the business.
Serves as the NA subject matter expert for WAVE and assists General Managers and their teams with project ideation and shop level growth strategies.
Provides training and technical assistance with WAVE as needed.
Plans and leads bi-annual offsites for the NA leadership team with sessions focused on value creation and strategic growth of the business.
Conducts complex scenario planning to proactively provide analysis, make process improvement recommends on alternative development plans.
Effectively summarizes key information such as program progress, timeline updates, risk opportunity assessments and SOPs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS or BA degree in project management, business administration or related discipline.
Master’s degree related field or MBA preferred.
7+ years of project management experience including experience in cross-functional execution including medium to large-scale projects.
Critical thought partner and proven ability to connect people and ideas to drive outcomes.
Ability to connect, interact and influence teams across the sites to drive change management and execute projects.
Self-motivated; acts independently and prioritizes appropriately; embraces unexpected changes or challenges and drives to improved solutions.
Contributes to best practices sharing and CI to support the operations and the success and evolution of the business.
Ability to manage multiple priorities/projects at a given time, ensuring deadlines, budgets and status updates.
Developed communication skills and the ability to synthesize data and information into meaningful insights.
Very detail oriented and strong project/operation management skills.
Ability to handle ambiguity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementcapital budget managementbusiness case developmentscenario planningprocess improvementdata synthesisstrategic growth planningcapital investment projectscross-functional executionchange management

Soft Skills

critical thinkinginfluenceself-motivationprioritizationcommunicationdetail orientationadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingleadership

Certifications

BS or BA degreeMaster’s degreeMBA