Project Manager

SUMMARY 

The Project Manager is a strategic partner in delivering business value through consistent execution and empowered teams. This position facilitates projects with accountability, collaboration, and transparency-building strong cross-functional relationships, managing risks, and adapting with agility. The Project Manager focuses on effective scoping, realistic planning, and efficient execution to drive measurable results and ensure every project aligns with and advances Sartori’s vision. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned as needed by the direct leader.  

• Strategic Alignment: 
  Facilitates the development of business cases, ensuring measurable outcomes, clear cost‑of‑delay analysis, and strong alignment with organizational priorities. Optimizes project planning to accelerate transitions from assessment to implementation while maintaining appropriate risk controls. 

• Scope Management: 
  Leads scope definition to establish objectives, deliverables, and success criteria with full stakeholder alignment, and manages scope changes through structured change control, communicating impacts and securing required approvals. 

• Schedule Management: 
  Develops and facilitates integrated project schedules with clear tasks, dependencies, and milestones, ensuring realistic timelines that are monitored for accountability and optimized through critical path analysis to reduce delays and opportunity costs. 

• Cost Management: 
  Oversees the AFE (Authorization for Expenditure) process from preparation through approvals, monitors project budgets against baselines, escalates variances, and supports accurate cost tracking while reinforcing the financial impact of delays and missed opportunities. 

• Risk Management: 
  Facilitates FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) workshops to identify, assess, and prioritize risks. Ensures mitigation plans are documented, assigned, and actively monitored throughout the project lifecycle. 

• Stakeholder & Communication Management: 
  Drives proactive stakeholder engagement, maintaining transparency through structured updates, dashboards, and communication forums. Ensures alignment, timely decision‑making, and responsiveness to project needs. 

• Technical & Equipment Understanding: 
  Applies practical knowledge of equipment and processes used in cheese manufacturing, construction, or related manufacturing environments. Collaborates with Engineering, Quality, R&D, and Operations to interpret technical requirements, support design decisions, and identify risks throughout project planning, execution, and startup. 

• Cross‑Functional Leadership: 
  Fosters effective collaboration across all project stakeholders, resolving conflicts, promoting alignment, and removing barriers to maintain project momentum. 

• Governance: 
  Ensures adherence to project management standards, frameworks, and organizational policies. Leads structured reviews, approvals, and accountability processes across all phases of the project. 

• Continuous Improvement: 
  Captures lessons learned, tracks performance metrics, and facilitates knowledge sharing to strengthen project management practices. Drives continuous improvement in processes, tools, and methodologies for future projects. 

DIRECT REPORTS 

This position does not have direct reports. 

QUALIFICATIONS  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential d