Operations Project Manager

SBP Careers • Duluth, GA

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About The Position

Specialty Building Products is seeking an Operations Project Manager to lead complex operations projects from early planning through launch, stable operations, and closeout. Projects may include facility consolidations, distribution-center openings or relocations, acquisition integrations, major operating-system rollouts, and significant changes to distribution networks or capacity. The manager organizes each project, coordinates participating departments, protects employee safety and customer service, and ensures approved operating and financial results are delivered. After completing a project, the manager moves to the next major company project.

The role develops and maintains project plans and management processes, coordinates cross-functional requirements and site preparation, oversees readiness and execution, and reports progress, decisions, deadlines, and risks to senior leaders. It also works with HR and operations leaders on employee communications, staffing changes, and training. Extensive travel and sustained time at the assigned project location may be required during critical phases.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Seven or more years of increasing responsibility in project management, operations, engineering, supply chain, or major facility-change work.
• Proven success leading at least one complex project involving several departments, locations, vendors, or operating teams.
• Ability to build and manage a complete project plan with connected tasks, deadlines, resource needs, risks, and financial tracking.
• Strong communication, meeting leadership, negotiation, and decision-support skills with senior leaders.
• Ability to travel extensively and spend sustained periods at the assigned project location during critical phases.

Nice To Haves

• Agile project experience, Lean Six Sigma, or another project-management certification.
• Experience leading facility consolidations, relocations, new-site openings, acquisition integrations, or major system rollouts.
• Experience in distribution, manufacturing, transportation, building materials, or multi-site branch operations.
• Experience managing capital projects, outside vendors, construction schedules, equipment installation, or material-handling systems.
• Working knowledge of operations finance, business cases, capital budgets, and confirming whether expected results were achieved.

Responsibilities

• Lead major projects from initial planning through launch, stable operations, and final closeout.
• Build and maintain project plans covering deadlines, task dependencies, priority activities, approval points, resource needs, and contingency plans.
• Establish and maintain project-management processes, including leadership meetings, departmental work plans, action lists, risk and issue tracking, and escalation procedures.
• Coordinate departments involved in projects, potentially including Operations, Sales, Customer Service, Transportation, Inventory, Finance, HR, IT, Real Estate, Facilities, Safety, Legal, Purchasing, and Communications.
• Work with department leaders to define requirements for facilities, processes, equipment, technology, staffing, inventory, transportation, and customer transitions.
• Manage site preparation, including layout, racking, equipment, product flow, staffing, training, system access, inventory moves, and final transition planning.
• Lead readiness reviews and decisions about whether a project is ready to proceed.
• Manage approved work, schedules, budgets, expected results, risks, assumptions, and requested changes.
• Update senior leaders on project status, decisions needed, upcoming deadlines, and risks to safety, service, employees, cost, or timing.
• Coordinate employee communications, staffing changes, training, and other employee-related plans with HR and operations leaders.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, available on the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
• Dental insurance, available on the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
• Vision insurance, available on the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
• Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Company-paid time off.
• Paid holidays and floating holidays.
• Additional perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior