Projects and Technology Manager
About The Position
As manager of project management, process engineering, and packaging, this role provides hands-on leadership and mentoring of direct reports. This multidisciplinary team is responsible for supporting successful new product development, supporting operations, and ensuring projects are on time and within budget. The manager will oversee complex new product development projects from planning through delivery, liaising between project members, cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure deliverables, requirements, schedules, cost, and meeting plans are communicated. This role utilizes appropriate tools to plan project timelines, tasks, milestones, and deadlines, and communicates schedule changes to all stakeholders. The manager will also plan and facilitate project meetings to align the project team to methods and goals and to track project tasks, preparing agendas, meeting notes, and project summaries. They will monitor task completion status to identify at-risk project tasks and develop mitigation plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (Food processing, Packaging, Mechanical, Chemical, or related field) or Food Science.
- 7–10+ years of experience in R&D, food manufacturing, packaging engineering, or process engineering.
- Strong background in project management.
- Demonstrated leadership experience and ability to manage multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Strong understanding of food processing, packaging technologies, and project management methodologies.
- People management skills.
- Strong technical background in food, packaging, and project management.
Nice To Haves
- PMP certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage key projects from concept through commercialization.
- Define continuous improvement of the stage-gate process.
- Ensure projects are managed effectively and team members' tasks and objectives are clear.
- Ensure project priorities are aligned with senior leadership and effectively communicated.
- Align projects with cross-functional team’s needs.
- Ensure projects are driven to completion and provide value.
- Identify projects for process engineering to support product development.
- Provide expertise and guidance to process engineers.
- Ensure projects are on time and within budget.
- Provide technical direction on packaging materials, design principles, equipment compatibility, and validation protocols.
- Ensure designs comply with quality and shelf-life requirements.
- Innovate with vendors and operations to improve efficiency and customer offerings.
- Provide technical guidance, performance management, and professional development.
- Prioritize workload, allocate resources, and remove barriers to ensure timely project execution.
- Act as technical liaison with Operations, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Procurement, Marketing, and external partners.
- Collaborate with production and supporting departments to ensure the food safety and quality of our products.
- Other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
