Operations Project Manager

CMC Group, Inc. is seeking a highly organized and collaborative CME Operations Project Manager to help drive key operational projects and strategic initiatives from planning through successful implementation. This role will partner with operations leaders and cross-functional teams to define project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, risks, and success measures while keeping priorities visible and moving work forward. The ideal candidate will bring strong project coordination skills, sound judgment, and the ability to build alignment across manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain, quality, engineering, maintenance, IT, safety, commercial teams, and other stakeholders to deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, capacity, and operational readiness.

The CME Operations Project Manager supports the CME Operations team by coordinating and managing the portfolio of operational projects and strategic initiatives across CME. Reporting to the EVP of Operations, this role works with functional leaders and project stakeholders to establish clear project scope, schedules, ownership, resource requirements, budgets, and success measures; maintain visibility to priorities and dependencies; and drive cross-functional execution through completion.

The position provides consistent status reporting, identifies and escalates risks, issues, and decisions, and helps ensure CME projects deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, capacity, cost, productivity, and operational readiness.

• Manages assigned CME operations projects from concept and prioritization through implementation, stabilization, and closeout.
• Partners with the CME Operations team, functional leaders, and project stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, business value, ownership, timing, resource needs, budgets, and success measures.
• Maintains the consolidated CME operations project portfolio, including priorities, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and resource constraints.
• Develops and maintains practical project plans, action trackers, meeting notes, decision logs, dashboards, and executive status reports.
• Leads cross-functional project meetings, confirms commitments and due dates, follows up on open actions, and holds project teams accountable for agreed-upon deliverables.
• Coordinates projects involving manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain, quality, engineering, maintenance, information technology, safety, commercial teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders as required.
• Monitors project performance against schedule, budget, scope, quality, and expected operational benefits; recommends corrective actions when performance is off plan.
• Identifies project risks, constraints, and competing priorities early; develops mitigation plans and escalates material issues or decisions through the appropriate CME Operations leadership channels.
• Supports capital equipment, facility, process improvement, capacity expansion, automation, systems implementation, product commercialization, new business start-up initiatives and operational readiness initiatives across CME.
• Coordinates implementation planning, including testing, training, standard work, documentation, communications, and transition to operational ownership.
• Uses data and operational metrics to validate project needs, measure outcomes, and confirm that completed initiatives deliver intended results.
• Promotes consistent project management practices across CME and continuously improves project intake, prioritization, governance, reporting, and closeout processes.
• Builds productive working relationships, facilitates timely decisions, resolves routine project conflicts, and keeps stakeholders informed of progress and changes.
• Performs other operations project and initiative responsibilities in support of the CME Operations team as assigned.

• Working knowledge of at least one of the following:
  Printing, Packaging, Labeling, Graphics, blending, manufacturing and operations environments, including safety, quality, service, cost,…