Gem

Project Manager Co-Pack/Kitting

Gem$70K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of project management experience
  • Familiarity with project management frameworks like PMBOK, DMAIC, Agile
  • Proficiency in Excel with strong analytical skills
  • Effective communication and conflict management skills
  • Experience leading value streams

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional teams for process improvements
  • Develop business cases for new initiatives and program launches
  • Identify resources and timelines to meet project milestones
  • Track and manage project tasks while assessing risks
  • Achieve project deliverables in terms of time, cost, and objectives
  • Manage the onboarding and execution of new kitting/co-pack programs
  • Translate customer and internal specifications into actionable operational deliverables
  • Communicate effectively to gain support from teams and leadership
  • Foster positive relationships with stakeholders and project teams
  • Navigate challenging environments to achieve objectives

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Generous PTO policies including vacation, sick, and floating holidays
  • 401K plan with matching contributions
  • Team-based culture emphasizing employee ownership
Full Job Description
The Project Manager Co-Pack/Kitting leads projects from business case and scope definition through implementation, pricing, and sustainment. This role also ensures programs and process changes are delivered on time, within budget, and to specification, and that the commercial model (pricing, cost-to-serve, and margin) reflects operational realities and drives measurable business results. Other responsibilities include:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional teams to achieve process improvement through structured project management.
  • Develop business cases for new initiatives and program launches, clearly defining objectives, scope, resources, risks, and expected benefits (labor, cost/unit, service, quality, margin).
  • Identify project resources and time commitments to meet project timeline and milestone dates
  • Track and manage project tasks and assess risks and risk avoidance solutions to keep project on track and on-budget
  • Achieve project deliverables (time, cost and objectives) and productivity results through improvement sustainment
  • Manage onboarding and execution of new kitting/co-pack programs including requirements intake, operational design, readiness planning, and go-live support.
  • Translate customer and internal specifications into operational deliverables, including: pack-out configuration and BOM accuracy, labeling and compliance requirements, quality checkpoints and acceptance criteria, SOP/work instruction development and training, coordinate launch readiness across staffing, materials, equipment, layout, and systems transactions to ensure stable ramp-up.
  • Positively lead teams and organizations through change. Communicate effectively to teams and leadership to ensure support for resources and buy-in for change
  • Navigate corporate culture / developing positive working relationships with stakeholders and project team(s)
  • Ability to be placed in demanding environments and drive towards objectives
  • Comfortable leading change in areas outside of subject matter expertise
  • Ability to understand and lead technical productivity initiatives through various transactional automation methods.


Requirements

  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge and use of project management tools, such as Clarizen or Microsoft Project
  • Minimum 3+ years of leading project management teams.
  • Demonstrated business impact utilizing a project management framework: PMBOK, DMAIC, PM2, Waterfall, Agile, Etc.
  • Experience with custom development project implementations.
  • Proficiency using Excel and strong analytical skills
  • Effective communication, presentation and conflict management skills
  • Experience participating in or leading value streams


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience utilizing Sharepoint and MS Planner to manage projects.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Quality, or Operations
  • PMP certification


Shorr Packaging does not provide work authorization sponsorship for this position.

Shorr Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - Together, We Own It!
  • Comprehensive Employee Benefits: Medical, dental, vision and other insurance coverages
  • Generous PTO with vacation, sick and floating holidays.
  • 401K plan plus matching
  • Team based Employee Owner company culture


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