Project Manager

Ascendo Resources; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Ascendo Resources is partnering with a growing manufacturer to hire a Project Manager for a newly created position supporting initiatives across the business. This role will lead projects involving operations, manufacturing, production, R&D, engineering, quality, sales operations, and other corporate functions.

You will turn business priorities into clear plans, align resources, and drive projects from concept through implementation.

Job description

Project Manager, Corporate & Operational Initiatives

Compensation: Salary target of $125,000.

About the Opportunity

Ascendo Resources is partnering with a growing manufacturer to hire a Project Manager for a newly created position supporting initiatives across the business.

This role will lead projects involving operations, manufacturing, production, R&D, engineering, quality, sales operations, and other corporate functions. Working closely with departmental leaders and executive leadership, you will turn business priorities into clear plans, align resources, and drive projects from concept through implementation.

The ideal candidate brings a varied portfolio of business and operational projects, strong execution discipline, and the ability to influence stakeholders whose teams have competing priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of cross-functional projects aligned with business priorities, operational requirements, and customer needs.
• Partner with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, budgets, resource needs, and success measures.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, coordinate dependencies, and resolve competing demands on shared resources.
• Drive accountability across departments by establishing clear ownership, securing commitments, and following through on deliverables.
• Identify risks, address roadblocks, manage changes, and escalation decisions that affect scope, cost, timing, or quality.
• Facilitate productive project meetings and communicate progress, priorities, risks, and recommendations to departmental and executive leadership.
• Track project spending and performance, maintaining accurate plans, schedules, status reports, action items, and project documentation.
• Lead project closure and post-project reviews, applying lessons learned to improve planning, reporting, and execution practices.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of progressive project management experience, including ownership of complex initiatives involving multiple business functions.
• Demonstrated success delivering corporate or operational projects, with substantive experience extending beyond IT or software implementation.
• Experience managing projects through the full lifecycle, including scope development, scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, risk management, implementation, and closure.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Experience balancing multiple projects and communicating tradeoffs, resource constraints, and decisions to leadership.
• Strong financial, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Technical acumen and the ability to understand project requirements, operational constraints, and dependencies across disciplines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or comparable project management applications, supported by practical knowledge of project management methods and tools.

Preferred Background

• Experience leading manufacturing, engineering, production improvement, or new product development projects.
• Experience in a growing organization with evolving processes and competing priorities.
• PMP or a similar project management certification strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Project Management, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.

Why Consider This Role?

• Take ownership of a varied project portfolio with exposure across the business.
• Work directly with departmental and executive leaders on initiatives that support company growth.
• Help shape practical project management processes in a newly created position.
• Receive competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.