Senior Project Manager

Jobtailor; Warminster Township (Bucks County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead strategic cross-functional programs in a manufacturing and engineering environment. The role involves driving PMO initiatives, coaching project managers, and delivering projects on scope, schedule, cost, and quality while coordinating with sales, engineering, and operations teams.

Travel up to 30% including international sites. The ideal candidate will have a BS degree with 5+ years PM experience, strong root-cause analysis skills, and

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor of Science degree from a four-year college or university, or five to ten years of related training and experience in a technical, engineering, or science-oriented field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum five years of project management experience
• Experience with manufacturing and fabrication of engineered equipment
• Experience with high-profile R&D, strategic, IT, and/or CAPEX projects
• Experience with field installation and commissioning of equipment on-site
• Experience working directly with end users and contractors in a commercial capacity
• Experience presenting and interacting with executive management regularly
• Experience with continuous improvement and change management of business processes
• Ability to work successfully in a matrix organization
• Ability to travel up to 30%, including occasional international travel

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic cross-functional projects from initiation through closeout, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are met
• Lead PMO initiatives to standardize project delivery tools, templates, and governance
• Apply structured problem solving, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Provide coaching and team leadership to project managers
• Deliver assigned projects within scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments
• Travel up to 30% to SP facilities, vendors, and customer sites, including occasional international travel
• Track and report project performance, including schedule, cost, risks, issues, and quality
• Provide stage gate governance
• Serve as primary point of contact for project stakeholders, customers, and end users
• Drive communication, timely decisions, and issue escalation and resolution
• Partner across sales, portfolio management, estimating, engineering, service, manufacturing, and leadership
• Implement standard work and execute corrective and preventive actions identified through root-cause analysis
• Manage production projects for engineering, fabrication, assembly, and testing of food, drug, and chemical batch process capital equipment and subsystems
• Support R&D, strategic, IT, and CAPEX projects

Skills

Project Management

Continuous Improvement

Root-Cause Analysis

Stakeholder Communication

Manufacturing Experience

Education

Bachelor of Science

Tools

Project Delivery Tools

Templates

Governance Frameworks

Job description

• Lead strategic cross-functional projects from initiation through closeout, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are met
• Lead PMO initiatives to standardize project delivery tools, templates, and governance
• Apply structured problem solving, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Provide coaching and team leadership to project managers
• Deliver assigned projects within scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments
• Travel up to 30% to SP facilities, vendors, and customer sites, including occasional international travel
• Track and report project performance, including schedule, cost, risks, issues, and quality
• Provide stage gate governance
• Serve as primary point of contact for project stakeholders, customers, and end users
• Drive communication, timely decisions, and issue escalation and resolution
• Partner across sales, portfolio management, estimating, engineering, service, manufacturing, and leadership
• Implement standard work and execute corrective and preventive actions identified through root-cause analysis
• Manage production projects for engineering, fabrication, assembly, and testing of food, drug, and chemical batch process capital equipment and subsystems
• Support R&D, strategic, IT, and CAPEX projects

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor of Science degree from a four-year college or university, or five to ten years of related training and experience in a technical, engineering, or science-oriented field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum five years of project management experience
• Experience with manufacturing and fabrication of engineered equipment
• Experience with high-profile R&D, strategic, IT, and/or CAPEX projects
• Experience with field installation and commissioning of equipment on-site
• Experience working directly with end users and contractors in a commercial capacity
• Experience presenting and interacting with executive management regularly
• Experience with continuous improvement and change management of business processes
• Ability to work successfully in a matrix organization
• Ability to travel up to 30%, including occasional international travel

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading strategic cross-functional projects, ensuring adherence to scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives. Proficient in project management methodologies, continuous improvement practices, and effective stakeholder communication.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Project Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication
• Manufacturing Experience

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Project Management
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Continuous Improvement
• Change Management
• Field Installation
• Commissioning
• Manufacturing
• Fabrication
• Engineering Equipment
• R&D Project Management

Soft Skills

• Team Leadership
• Coaching
• Communication
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making

Industry Keywords

• Engineering
• Technical Field
• CAPEX Projects
• Commercial Capacity
• Matrix Organization

Tools & Technologies

• Project Delivery Tools
• Templates
• Governance Frameworks