Senior Project Manager

Project Manager

Headquartered in Cincinnati, LSI is a publicly held company traded over the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol LYTS. The company manufactures advanced lighting, graphics, and display solutions across strategic vertical markets. The company's American-made products, which include non-residential indoor and outdoor lighting, print graphics, digital graphics, refrigerated and custom displays, help create value for customer brands and enhance the consumer experience.

LSI also provides comprehensive project management services in support of large-scale product rollouts. The company employs approximately 3,000 people at 23 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada. Additional information about LSI is available at

JSI, an LSI Industries company, is trusted by North America's leading grocery and retail brands to create innovative and eye-catching display fixtures and millwork. For more than 30 years, JSI has been designing and manufacturing its display fixtures across its four North American locations.

We are looking for a Project Manager to support our EMI team in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Position Overview:

The Senior Project Manager plays a critical senior role in driving the growth of our custom store fixture manufacturing company by leading complex, high-value projects from sales to delivery and installation of custom fixtures, including millwork, metal, refrigeration products, specialty cabinetry, casework, and related solutions for retailers, convenience stores, restaurants, supermarkets, and other commercial uses. This position ensures projects meet and exceed customer specifications for design, functionality, quality, timeliness, and profitability while providing high-level communication across sales, manufacturing, installation teams, and customers.

The Senior PM also mentors junior team members, drives process improvements, and builds strategic customer relationships to expand our well-established base. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated leader with advanced organizational skills, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and a proven track record in custom manufacturing environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Understand the company's manufactured products, components, processes, and materials at an expert level, including their intended and actual use in the field, to ensure optimal high-quality outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strategic customer relationships, acting as a trusted advisor while proactively anticipating needs and soliciting feedback on performance.
• Lead the design, development, and management of complex projects that meet all customer needs, including timely completion of estimates, samples, prototypes, proposals, and accurate drawings.
• Clearly define and document project scope, functions, responsibilities, and specifications; assemble and lead project teams, review plans, obtain buy-in, and adjust based on feedback.
• Utilize advanced project management tools (e.g., Smart Sheets) to create detailed plans identifying deadlines, critical paths, responsible parties, quality standards, and packaging requirements, while proactively highlighting and mitigating potential issues.
• Establish specific steps, timelines, and milestones for each project to align with customer and manufacturing needs, ensuring adherence to critical dates for superior customer satisfaction.
• Manage the entire project lifecycle for larger and more complex projects, including sourcing materials, coordinating inventory levels and deliveries, generating material usage and time studies, and facilitating prototypes as needed.
• Ensure all required approval drawings are submitted on time, manage changes, revisions, purchase orders, and change orders, documenting approvals and updating tracking software.
• Conduct weekly project reviews with the team, provide executive-level progress reports using technology, and maintain regular communication logs with customers, general contractors, and internal stakeholders to ensure on-time, complete deliveries and identify special requirements.
• Source and price complex projects in a timely manner, prepare cost estimates and custom quotations, and coordinate orders, sales, and…