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Project Management Manager
EmersonUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Aug 2026
About the role
Position Summary:
If you are a Project Management professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you! In this leadership role, you will guide a team of Project Managers responsible for delivering customer projects from order entry through final fulfillment. You will play a key role in driving operational excellence, enhancing customer satisfaction, improving project execution processes, and partnering across functions to support business growth. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact through collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and people leadership.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Lead and develop a team of Project Managers responsible for the successful execution of customer projects from order entry through final fulfillment.
- Establish, monitor, and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide visibility into project health, on-time delivery, backlog execution, forecast accuracy, resource utilization, customer satisfaction, and operational performance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across project management and operational functions to improve execution efficiency, standardize processes, reduce risk, and enhance customer experience.
- Coordinate priorities across Manufacturing, Materials, Production Scheduling, Inventory Control, Shipping, and Receiving functions to ensure alignment with project requirements and customer commitments.
- Partner with plant and business leadership in strategic planning, budgeting, capacity planning, and long-term growth initiatives.
- Serve as the escalation point for project execution challenges, customer concerns, and operational risks, driving timely resolution and corrective actions.
- Act as a liaison between Sales, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and other functional teams to ensure alignment on project objectives, schedules, and deliverables.
- Champion a continuous improvement approach to project execution by identifying bottlenecks, improving workflows, and driving cross-functional accountability.
- Provide governance and leadership for project execution activities, ensuring consistent application of project management standards, tools, and best practices.
- Own factory-level project and backlog forecasting, reporting, and execution performance, prioritizing customer delivery commitments while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Develop performance goals and accountability measures for project management team utilizing KPI reviews and data-driven decision making to improve results.
- Prepare and present project, backlog, and operational performance reviews to plant and business leadership, highlighting trends, risks, opportunities, and improvement actions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while developing team capabilities and supporting organizational growth.
Who You Are:
- You serve as a strategic partner to build, grow, and maintain profitable and long-lasting relationships with key accounts.
- You see the big picture, constantly are imagining future scenarios, and create strategies to sustain competitive advantage.
- You use milestones to diligently track and manage the progress of the work.
- You pursue everything with energy, drive, and the need to finish.
- You understand interpersonal and group dynamics and react in an effective manner.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience
- Eight (8) years or more of experience in project management, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, or a related field
- Experience with change management and driving continuous improvement activities
- Previous experience in demonstrating positive leadership in areas such as sales, manufacturing and materials
- Results driven and ability to consistently achieve positive results, even under tough circumstances
- Must have demonstrated working effectively across a site to develop and strengthen key business relationships
- Customer focus with the ability to build strong customer relationships and meet customer expectations
- Skills to manage complexity, conflicts, problem solve, and work well under pressure
- Excellent analytical and communication and strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Ability to develop, implement and measure KPI's for the team
- Demonstrates clear understanding of all tasks and processes within manufacturing
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
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