Senior Project Manager

Swagelok; Solon (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Retirement planning options

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Swagelok in Solon, OH is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large, complex projects and programs across functional teams. You will anticipate issues, define risk mitigation measures, and apply best practices to improve delivery methodologies with minimal supervision.

You will communicate clearly with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, translating complex delivery realities into decision-ready language to support prioritization and trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Has expert knowledge of project and risk management principles and practices.
• Fully capable of analyzing data trends to inform decisions.
• Experience with managing large departmental or mid-size corporate programs.
• Ability to perform with limited supervision and drive results.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to evolution of project management methodologies and processes.
• Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions.
• Interprets customer needs and proposes non-standard solutions.
• Explains difficult issues and builds consensus across teams.
• Mentors other project managers and coaches best practices.
• Leads programs with significant resources, risk, and complexity.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Data analysis

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Shift: 1st shift

City: Solon

Swagelok, Northeast Ohio, USA

Swagelok is a global organization and one of the largest employers of manufacturing talent in Northeast Ohio. We are driven by our core values of Quality, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Customer Focus, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, which are demonstrated through our daily actions. For over 75 years, our dedication to our core values has been the foundation for our success. Our products have been up into space, down to the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere in between.That same dedication spans to our customers.

Throughout our organization we demonstrate a commitment to these values and those we bring onboard. Whether you want to grow in your role or explore broad opportunities and develop new skills—you’ll thrive in a culture that promotes learning and development.

We strive to be a company where we all can do our best work with a true sense of purpose and belonging.

Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.

We hope you’ll consider joining our team.

Position Summary:

Using existing knowledge and expertise of internal or external business issues, the senior project manager anticipates issues and problems, proactively defines risk management measures, and works to continually apply best practices for the improvement of overall methodologies with minimal guidance. The role also requires clear, concise communication - both horizontally across project teams to drive alignment and remove ambiguity, and vertically to executive stakeholders to ensure decisions are well-framed, risks are surfaced early, and status is objective and fact-based. The Sr. PM must translate complex delivery realities into simple, decision-ready language that supports executive prioritization and trade-off decisions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the evolution and development of Swagelok project management methodologies and processes

• Solves complex problems, taking a new perspective on existing solutions

• Interprets customer needs, assessing requirements and identifying solutions to non-standard requests

• Explains difficult issues and works to build consensus

• Provides coaching and mentoring to other project managers

• Makes decisions within guidelines and policies

• Impacts a range of standard and non-standard customer, operational, process, project, or service activities

• Leads project or programs with significant resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

• Develops budgets and manages costs and resources for large and complex projects

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the products, systems, and processes within own functional area and a good understanding of those deployed across Swagelok Company

• Integrates best practices and thinking into tasks, work products, and processes

• May mentor and coach others about best practices and functional concepts

• Knows patterns and trends in data and selects from a range of problem solving techniques

• Consults with experts to solve advanced problems

• May lead the identification of patterns and trends in data

• Participates in the technical/professional community through industry groups, and/or professional affiliations

• Stays ahead of the curve on functional area trends, including product/technical advancements and environmental trends

• Demonstrates understanding of the competitive landscape and implications for the customer’s experience

• Proactively interacts with colleagues/customers to solve problems, educate them on Swagelok functions and or business

• Balances a variety of ideas, experiences, and innovations with prudence and good judgment to develop significant improvements

• Recognizes interdependencies among products, processes, programs, and services and leverages them to the benefit of Swagelok

• Anticipates and initiates change, responding resourcefully and constructively to overcome barriers to change

• Actively maintains network of contacts across functional and geographic boundaries

• Recognizes and values collaboration and is able to effectively leverage different opinions and experiences to help solve problems and accomplish tasks

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

Required:

Education/Experience:

• College or university degree typically required or equivalent work experience that has provided 5+ years of leading large departmental or mid-size corporate projects

Skills/Knowledge:

• Has expert knowledge and insight of the theories, methodologies, practices, and procedures related to project and risk management

• Fully capable of understanding and analyzing data trends

• Expert awareness of industries served and product applications

• Fully capable of performing effectively with limited supervision

Critical Competencies:

• Effective Communication
• Initiative
• Problem Solving/Analytical Ability
• Resourceful
• Creative mind-set
• Teamwork & collaboration
• Adaptability
• Organizational Awareness
• Leadership
• Change Management

Working Conditions and/or Physical Requirements

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

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Swagelok provides a comprehensive package of valuable benefits called Total Rewards focused on health and wellness, compensation, retirement planning, and supplemental rewards.

Congratulations on taking the first step to B e Connected. B e Valued. B e You.

Swagelok is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are selected without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, pregnancy-related medical conditions, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran/military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Swagelok will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, and Ohio state law.

This job summary is intended to be brief and does not list all the duties for this position. Nothing in this job description should be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Swagelok is an at-will employer, which means that either party is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time, without any advanced notice, for any reason or no reason.