The Engineering Project Manager provides project leadership for complex engineering, capital, automation, equipment, facility, and manufacturing improvement initiatives from concept through implementation and qualifications. Drives successful project delivery by establishing scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, resources, and implementation strategies while aligning cross-functional stakeholders. Partners with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Finance, Corporate teams, equipment vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders to deliver projects safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with established requirements. Exercises significant autonomy in project execution, manages risk and change, and influences decisions across functions and manufacturing locations to achieve business objectives.
You Will Have the Opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!
Project Leadership
- Lead cross functional capital, process improvement, and strategic projects from initiation through closure, ensuring delivery on agreed scope, schedule, and budget.
- Lead projects involving new production lines, equipment installations, facility upgrades, automation initiatives, and process improvements.
- Manage project execution from initial concept and design through procurement, installation, startup, commissioning, qualification, and closeout.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans including work breakdown structures, timelines, resource plans, and critical path analysis.
- Develop project scopes, schedules, budgets, milestones, resource plans, and implementation strategies.
- Define clear project charters, business cases, and success criteria in partnership with Operations, Finance, and Commercial stakeholders.
- Manage project budgets, financial performance, and return on investment to maximize business value.
Cross-Functional Project Execution
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams and establish clear roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and timelines.
- Serve as the primary project point of contact for internal stakeholders, contractors, equipment suppliers, and other external partners.
- Coordinate engineering, electrical, controls, construction, maintenance, operations, and production activities to ensure successful project execution.
- Partner with Engineering and Maintenance to plan and execute equipment installations, line trials, and changeovers with minimal disruption to operations.
- Partner with Operations and Maintenance to ensure successful transition of completed projects into production.
- Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain to source equipment, services, and materials, and to align project timelines with supply plans.
- Manage equipment vendors and contractors, including coordination of deliverables, site activities, installation, startup, and issue resolution.
Risk, Change & Governance
- Lead project risk assessments, identify mitigation actions, and proactively manage issues, scope changes, and tradeoffs.
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation and contingency plans to maintain project objectives.
- Coordinate change management and ensure project scope, cost, schedule, and technical changes are appropriately evaluated and documented.
- Provide structured project governance, including status reporting, milestone tracking, and KPI dashboards for plant and BU leadership.
- Facilitate project meetings, maintain action-item tracking, and drive timely resolution of open issues.
- Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, stand ups, and gate reviews, driving clear decisions, action ownership, and follow through.
- Track project progress, costs, schedules, risks, issues, and dependencies and proactively communicate status to leadership and stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain project documentation, including project plans, schedules, budgets, status reports, risk registers, and closeout documentation.
Technical & Operational Partnership
- Review technical drawings, specifications, equipment documentation, and project deliverables to ensure alignment with project requirements.
- Ensure all projects comply with safety, quality, regulatory, and corporate policies, including contractor management and lockout/tagout requirements.
- Support the development and commercialization of new products by coordinating trials, validation activities, and scale up plans across plants.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to improve project execution, processes, equipment reliability, and manufacturing performance.
- Benchmark internal and external best practices, and recommend innovative approaches to improve project delivery speed, reliability, and ROI.
Organizational Capability
- Develop and maintain standard project management templates, tools, and best practices to raise the overall project management maturity of the organization.
- Champion change management, including stakeholder analysis, communication plans, and training to enable smooth adoption of new processes and technologies.
- Coach plant and functional leaders on basic project management disciplines to strengthen local execution capability.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and training to project team members and other stakeholders as appropriate.
You Will Love It Here If…
- You listen, learn, and evolve
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment
- You put safety first, always
- You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
- You believe in treating all people with respect, operating ethically, and growing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace
- You are committed to improving our impact on local communities and creating positive experiences
