Senior Capital Projects Engineer – Onsite Manufacturing

The Kraft Heinz Company; Champaign (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Healthcare plans

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

The Kraft Heinz Company in Champaign, IL is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead capital projects across our manufacturing facilities. You will oversee engineering design, equipment selection, and on-site support from design through startup, ensuring safety, quality, and cost targets are met.

You will manage budgets, schedules, and governance while coordinating with operations, maintenance, safety, and finance teams to deliver complex projects on time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required.
• 3+ years of engineering and capital project experience in manufacturing, industrial, or consumer packaged goods environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple capital projects simultaneously.
• Experience in project planning, design engineering, construction support, installation, commissioning, and startup.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and project leadership skills.
• Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams in a plant environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple approved capital projects simultaneously, including large and complex manufacturing projects.
• Develop and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, and execution plans.
• Drive project execution from approved design through installation, commissioning, startup, and final handoff.
• Monitor project performance and resolve barriers that impact safety, quality, cost, or timing.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed with strong execution discipline and clear accountability.
• Partner with operations, maintenance, quality, safety, finance, procurement, and plant leadership to support project success.
• Lead cross-functional communication, stakeholder alignment, and decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain project governance routines, status reporting, and escalation processes.
• Coordinate project dependencies to ensure efficient implementation and readiness for startup.
• Develop and maintain project estimates, forecasts, schedules, and status reporting.
• Identify project risks and lead mitigation planning to protect project delivery.
• Track project costs, timelines, and implementation progress against approved plans.
• Ensure project documentation, reporting, and closeout activities are complete and accurate.
• Support trial runs, commissioning, startup readiness, and early operational stabilization.
• Ensure action items and final action items are completed prior to project closeout.
• Partner with plant teams to transition assets into operation successfully.
• Capture lessons learned and applied them to future project execution.

Skills

Capital project execution

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Project planning & controls

Risk management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Startup & commissioning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

The Kraft Heinz Company in Champaign, IL is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead capital projects across our manufacturing facilities. You will oversee engineering design, equipment selection, and on-site support from design through startup, ensuring safety, quality, and cost targets are met.

You will manage budgets, schedules, and governance while coordinating with operations, maintenance, safety, and finance teams to deliver complex projects on time.