Remote Operations Project Manager | Drive Cross-Functional Impact

Copeland; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Copeland is hiring an Operations Project Manager to lead cross-functional projects across Manufacturing Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Operational Excellence. You will translate business priorities into structured plans, coordinate execution, and manage risks to deliver safety, quality, customer delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity improvements.

The role requires strong analytical skills, practical operational knowledge, and disciplined project execution in a

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Logistics, Business, or a related field

Aufgaben

• Lead small to medium operational projects, or defined workstreams within larger programs, from initiation through closeout
• Develop project charters, scope statements, work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and measurable success criteria
• Maintain action, risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control logs; ensure owners and due dates are clear and current
• Establish project governance, meeting cadence, stage-gate reviews, and concise status reporting for sponsors and stakeholders
• Monitor schedule, cost, scope, benefits, and resource performance; elevate variances with fact-based recovery recommendations
• Capture lessons learned and transition completed deliverables to process owners with documented controls and sustainment plans
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and facilitate effective working sessions, readiness reviews, and steering committee updates
• Build productive relationships with plant leadership, functional teams, suppliers, carriers, and other external partners
• Communicate project status, decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Use practical change-management methods to assess stakeholder impacts, prepare communications and training, address resistance, and reinforce adoption
• Create a culture of accountability by following up on commitments and driving actions to closure
• Develop dashboards and analyses to support decisions, and monitor readiness
• Define baseline performance, target outcomes, KPI ownership, and benefit-realization tracking before implementation
• Protect confidential information and follow applicable cybersecurity, data governance, and records-management requirements
• Manufacturing Operations
• Assess constraints affecting throughput, capacity, takt time, cycle time, yield, changeover, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Partner with Environmental, Health and Safety and Quality teams to ensure project deliverables comply with site requirements and do not compromise safe work practices or product quality

Kenntnisse

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Excel & data analysis

Presentation & communications

Problem solving

MS Office Proficiency

PM tools (MS Project/Planner/Smarts)

ERP/MRP familiarity

Attention to detail

Travel readiness

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Logistics, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Planner

Smartsheet

Cora or equivalent

Oracle/SAP ERP

Jobbeschreibung

Copeland is hiring an Operations Project Manager to lead cross-functional projects across Manufacturing Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Operational Excellence. You will translate business priorities into structured plans, coordinate execution, and manage risks to deliver safety, quality, customer delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity improvements.

The role requires strong analytical skills, practical operational knowledge, and disciplined project execution in a