Senior Manager, PMO Engineering
Senior Manager, PMO Engineering to help strengthen how we plan, prioritize, and execute capital projects across our manufacturing network.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can see the broader capital portfolio while still rolling up their sleeves to directly lead
2-3 large, complex capital projects from planning through commissioning.
The Impact You'll Make
- You will help bring greater structure, visibility, and execution discipline to our capital portfolio.
- Your impact will include:
- Strengthening PMO governance, stage-gate processes, project controls, and portfolio reporting.
- Supporting annual and multi-year capital planning aligned with our 5-year strategic plan.
- Directly managing 2-3 large, complex capital projects.
- Improving visibility to project schedules, budgets, risks, resources, dependencies, and key decisions.
- Helping standardize engineering and project execution practices across facilities.
- Supporting automation, labor optimization, reliability, cost reduction, and operational improvement initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Lead complex capital projects from concept, business case, and approval through design, installation, commissioning, and closeout.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, financial forecasts, risks, vendors, contractors, and resources.
- Coordinate capital planning, prioritization, budgeting, forecasting, and portfolio reviews.
- Develop project plans, business cases, cost estimates, schedules, risk assessments, and approval documentation.
- Monitor project financial performance, commitments, change orders, ROI, and forecasts.
- Partner with operations, maintenance, engineering, and facility leaders to improve project execution and engineering standards.
- Provide hands-on coaching and direction to project engineers and project resources.
- Establish clear expectations, deliverables, KPIs, and accountability.
- Use lessons learned, root cause analysis, project reviews, and PMO metrics to continuously improve execution.
What Makes This Role Exciting?
- This is not a role where you simply maintain an established PMO.
- You will have the opportunity to help strengthen the processes, tools, governance, and operating rhythm behind how capital projects are planned and executed, while personally leading critical projects.
- You will work across multiple facilities and functions, giving you visibility into both immediate manufacturing priorities and longer-term capital strategy.
- This Role Is Ideally for Candidates Who
- Enjoy being both a PMO leader and hands-on project executor.
- Have personally led complex capital projects and can clearly demonstrate measurable results in safety, cost, schedule, reliability, productivity, or operational performance.
- Can create structure in evolving environments while building strong relationships with engineering, operations, maintenance, finance, and business leaders.
This Role May Not Be for Candidates Who
- Have primarily worked in PMO governance, reporting, or consulting roles without personally owning complex capital project execution.
- Prefer strategic portfolio oversight without remaining actively involved in project details, vendors, schedules, budgets, and execution.
- Have limited experience influencing stakeholders and driving accountability across a multi-site manufacturing environment.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in engineering aor a related technical field.
- 15+ years of engineering, project management, or capital project experience within manufacturing, industrial, food production, or a related environment.
- 3-5+ years of leadership, people management, or project team leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing large, complex capital projects.
- Experience supporting capital planning and multi-project portfolio management.
- Strong project controls and financial management capabilities.
- Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations.
- Formal project management training; PMP certification preferred.
- Ability to travel approximately 15%.
- Experience with automation, process optimization, labor reduction initiatives, or customer-facing environments is preferred. PE certification or an advanced technical degree is a plus.
Skills & Mindset
- You will be successful in this role if you can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- We're looking for someone who communicates clearly, builds relationships across functions, makes sound decisions with incomplete information, and creates accountability without losing collaboration.
- You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where priorities compete, resources need to be balanced, and strong project leadership directly impacts business performance.
Your Future at Clemens Food Group
- This role offers the opportunity to influence how engineering projects are planned and executed across our manufacturing network while developing broader leadership experience within the organization.
- At Clemens Food Group, we value people who build strong relationships, continuously improve how work gets done, take ownership, and deliver results.
Agency Statement:
Clemens Food Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at Clemens Food Group via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid written search agreement for this role, and without having been asked to participate in this by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Clemens Food Group, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired. Firms not authorized to submit candidates will not be eligible for any fee or ownership claim.
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