Intralox's New Product Development Industrial Business Unit is seeking a technically sharp, strategically minded, and pragmatic project leader to drive the development of conveyance solutions for major global manufacturers.

This role supports a constantly shifting industry and complex product offerings, requiring strong organization, flexibility, and the ability to solve problems transparently.

You won't just be managing Gantt charts-you'll be a core contributor in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment where product development moves quickly and is shaped by close proximity to end-user needs. You'll collaborate with talented mechanical engineers, plastic injection mold designers, application experts, commercial representatives, and manufacturing partners to turn concepts into real-world, production-ready systems that solve pressing customer problems.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Who You Are:
• A pragmatic project leader who thrives in ambiguity and moves with purpose.
• A self-managed stakeholder invested in seeing a product go from ideation to market.
• A communicator who earns trust across functions and motivates teams through clarity, urgency, and vision.
• Understands the value of relationships to achieve shared goals.
• Deeply curious and focused on end-user needs-you operate within a technical team guided by the goal of solving customer problems and generating end-user value.
• Not just a task manager-you think like an owner.

Responsibilities:
• Lead complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ensure alignment with business objectives and end-user requirements, serving as the connective tissue between engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and commercial teams.
• Build and manage timelines, project scopes, and resource plans while maintaining flexibility and a problem-solving mindset.
• Facilitate clear, concise communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving accountability and decision-making.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks while championing a bias for execution and continuous learning
• Identifies opportunities to add process where it brings value, and challenge (or eliminate) process where it creates waste
• Drives urgency, both within the team and with external resources
• Identifies assumptions and has the confidence to challenge them

Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree required
• Demonstrated familiarity with mechanical design and manufacturing processes preferred
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%, as needed or as interested.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent technical
• Previous Project Management experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in new product development, preferably within manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Experience working directly on the development of plastic injection molded components would be nice to have.
• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams in complex, ambiguous environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and project management software.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or Agile experience (a plus but not required).