Sr. Project Manager, Engineering

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IL Oak Brook

Job Type:

Engineering

Job Posting Title:

Sr. Project Manager, Engineering

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

What You Gain:

• Competitive compensation and benefits program
• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

Job Description:

About the Role:

The Sr. Project Manager, Engineering will be responsible for collaboratively developing, assessing, planning, and executing multiple large strategic capital projects using our capital Initiative Management process. The role will also ensure that the project team's technical capability exists to deliver assigned capital programs. The position will report to the Sr. Manager of Engineering for our Coffee, Aseptic, Ready to Drink and Tea Business Unit and will be assigned simultaneous, complex projects at multiple locations across North America. The projects will require the management of internal and external cross functional resources in a matrix organization. We are looking for a proven dynamic, inclusive leader with excellent communication and project management skills to drive these important initiatives for TreeHouse.

• Collaboratively develop, assess, plan, and execute multiple large strategic capital projects simultaneously at multiples locations within North America
• Lead teams to ensure all aspects of assigned capital projects are managed following our Capital Initiative Management program.
• Responsible for the team's project KPIs including safety, food safety, environmental impacts, operational impacts, adherence to scope, CQV performance, tracking against acceptance/performance criteria, on time delivery, cash flow, and overall budget tracking.
• Partner with capital sourcing manager to develop procurement strategies on assigned projects and execute them
• Lead team to develop and review business case screening scopes, schedules, and estimates on strategic ideas - Review with leadership to provide a directional view of projects; ultimately lead process through approval on prioritized projects.
• Mentor, coach, and lead team members, both internal and external, to ensure resources meet project needs.
• Work cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, EHS, Trans & Warehousing, Supply Planning, Technical Services, Reliability and Maintenance, Environmental, Sustainability, R&D, Finance, the BU teams, and IT to deliver assigned goals and projects.
• Manage internal and external cross functional resources including equipment vendors, construction contractors, third party engineering services, local / state / federal government agencies, and co-manufacturing organizations.
• Manage all aspects of assigned capital projects. This includes developing project scopes, budgets, schedules, acceptance/performance criteria, and startup curves while ensuring environmental, health, safety, food safety and quality organizations are fully aligned to the scope and construction plans. Prepare and communicate required governance and reporting.
• Projects will be delivered ensuring proper internal, local, state, and federal standards and codes are followed.
• The individual will be required to lead project teams through conflicts and issues while also knowing when to escalate and ask for help.
• This role will help study many strategic ideas which will ultimately require the development and presentation of order of magnitude scopes and screening estimates to Sr. Leadership.

Important Details: This is a full-time position located at our Oak Brook, IL corporate office on a hybrid schedule. There is up to 50% travel requirement for this role.

About You:

You'll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering, or related field)
• 8+ years of Project Management experience
• A track record of managing several $10M+ capital projects
• Expected to demonstrate previous experience leading a single large project through execution and completion of at least $15M of spend
• Requires a significant understanding of the business side of a Food Company and must understand sanitary design best practices
• Formal project management training or certifications are positives
• The candidate must possess excellent leadership and organizational skills and the ability to perform root cause technical problem solving
• Strong communication skills; demonstrated ability to work in a matrix organization
• The ideal candidate will have experience with utility systems, waste water pre-treatments systems, ingredient handling, food processing, and primary and secondary packaging systems.

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away!

Click on the "Apply" button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you're ready to join our team!

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away!

Click on the "Apply" button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you're ready to join our team!

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