Senior Project Manager - Industrial Equipment

HolwegWeber North America; Kiel (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

HolwegWeber North America is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex industrial equipment projects from kick-off to final customer acceptance. You will own the end-to-end strategy, execution plan, risk management, costs, quality, and customer communication.

The role provides direct leadership to the Project Manager, ensuring clear priorities, effective delegation, professional development, and disciplined project execution across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management or equivalent technical education preferred.
• Significant experience leading complex industrial projects required.
• Advanced Project Management Certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise preferred.

Responsibilities

• Defines project priorities, assigns responsibilities, delegates effectively, and ensures accountability for progress and deliverables.
• Builds and monitors project schedules with the various departments.
• Leads internal and external project governance, including kick-off meetings, steering reviews, project follow-up meetings, team updates, escalation reviews, and crisis committees.
• Organizes and coordinates test requests from external or internal customers and formalizes them in a database.
• Owns project financial performance, monitors costs and margins, anticipates budget deviations, and escalates corrective actions with clear recommendations.
• Anticipates, assesses, and manages project risks and opportunities, ensuring mitigation plans are implemented early and impacts are minimized.
• Monitors the supply chain, assembly steps, the smooth running of tests as well as the supply of raw materials for testing.
• Organizes the FAT and prepares the SAT.
• Ensures, in conjunction with the Test Facility Team Leader, the resources available for the development and validation/FAT and SAT phases.
• Proactively addresses customer concerns, resolves open issues, and mobilizes internal teams to mitigate potential problems before they impact project execution.
• Delivers complex projects within the commitments established at project launch, including scope, resources, schedule, budget, quality, and customer satisfaction objectives.
• Ensures contractual commitments are executed, manages customer expectations, supports change order discussions, and contributes to securing final payment milestones.
• Provides day-to-day leadership to the Project Manager, setting expectations, reviewing priorities, monitoring workload, and ensuring timely follow-through.
• Coaches and mentors the Project Manager on project planning, customer communication, risk management, escalation preparation, meeting facilitation, and decision-making discipline.
• Develops the Project Manager's capabilities through regular feedback, lessons learned reviews, shared problem-solving, and exposure to increasingly complex project situations.
• Makes occasional on-site trips to build customer relationships and ensure site readiness.
• Builds project management capability within the organization by mentoring the Project Manager, sharing best practices, reinforcing standard tools and processes, and promoting a consistent approach to project execution

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Risk management

Budget control

Stakeholder communication

Scheduling

Mentoring

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business management

Advanced Project Management Certification

Job description

HolwegWeber North America is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex industrial equipment projects from kick-off to final customer acceptance. You will own the end-to-end strategy, execution plan, risk management, costs, quality, and customer communication.

The role provides direct leadership to the Project Manager, ensuring clear priorities, effective delegation, professional development, and disciplined project execution across the portfolio.