Manager, Project Management - Equipment

Signode•Roselle, IL

17d•$140,000 - $155,000

About The Position

The Manager, Project Management – Equipment leads North American equipment order fulfillment from order receipt through customer site acceptance, building a more disciplined and scalable project delivery model. The role establishes project management standards, strengthens documentation discipline, manages selected high-impact projects, and leads project managers and customer service agents to deliver equipment on time and within budget. This is a hands-on leadership role in a complex, cross-functional environment. The successful candidate will define process flows, align functions, and use data, process discipline, and follow-through to improve project execution. The position also contributes customer priorities, project risk, and equipment-order visibility to SIOP planning and leads execution discipline for warehouse automation and ASRS projects. The role requires 10% annual travel, normally two-day trips to customer sites or other Signode facilities. Occasional travel outside normal business hours may be required. The company does not sponsor employment-based visas for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 5 years of experience in project management, proposals, service, engineering, or technical customer-order execution, including the ability to interpret technical documentation, order requirements, and customer acceptance criteria.
At least 3 years of experience leading people, with demonstrated ability to coach, set expectations, and hold team members accountable.
Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously and use KPIs, project metrics, and root-cause analysis to balance customer priorities, internal constraints, and deadlines.
Demonstrated ability to lead change across functions, influence without direct authority, and move teams from informal practices to consistent, measurable project execution.
Strong communication, urgency, and influencing skills, including the ability to escalate issues constructively, make trade-offs visible, and align customers, sales, engineering, operations, service, and senior leaders around priorities, risks, decisions, and recovery plans.
High proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Planner.
Willingness and ability to travel 10% annually, normally on two-day trips to customer sites or other Signode facilities, with occasional travel outside normal business hours.

Nice To Haves

Engineering or another technical degree.
PMI/PMP certification.
Experience with automation, capital equipment, industrial products, or engineered-to-order environments.
Familiarity with ERP, PDM/PLM, solid modeling, and/or PLC programming.

Responsibilities

Establish, implement, and continuously improve standard project management processes for North American customer equipment orders, ensuring expectations are clear, decisions are documented, and projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Lead a team of five project managers and customer service agents, setting expectations for communication, documentation, project control, and customer follow-through.
Contribute customer priorities, project risk, and equipment-order visibility to the SIOP process and support engineering capacity, operational capacity, and facility-selection reviews.
Drive readiness, execution, and closure of factory and site acceptance tests, ensuring open issues, punch-list items, customer decisions, and acceptance criteria are documented, owned, and resolved.
Lead execution discipline for warehouse automation and ASRS projects, coordinating scope, schedule, risk, customer readiness, and cross-functional handoffs.
Own ERP data quality for new equipment sales orders and ensure order data is accurate, current, and promptly updated when scope, schedule, cost, or fulfillment assumptions change.
Develop and use KPIs to monitor project cost, timeline, quality, customer readiness, and decision-cycle performance; identify root causes, drive corrective action, and improve delivery discipline.
Represent Signode when interfacing with customers, suppliers, and salespersons.