Project Manager, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

Overview

Join
Reynolds Consumer Products
…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. Are you looking to build a strong career? Then we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a
Project Manager to join our team at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Your Role:

The Project Manager is responsible for leading, coordinating, and executing complex cross functional projects across the manufacturing network. This role drives disciplined project management for capital investments, process improvements, and strategic initiatives that improve safety, quality, service, and cost. The Project Manager develops integrated project plans, manages timelines and budgets, aligns stakeholders, and ensures projects land on time, in scope, and within budget.

This position provides project leadership to plant and functional teams, escalates risks, removes roadblocks, and ensures effective communication across Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial teams. The Project Manager models the company values and supports a culture that attracts, retains, and develops a highly engaged and diverse workforce.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Lead cross functional capital, process improvement, and strategic projects from initiation through closure, ensuring delivery on agreed scope, schedule, and budget.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans including work breakdown structures, timelines, resource plans, and critical path analysis.
• Define clear project charters, business cases, and success criteria in partnership with Operations, Finance, and Commercial stakeholders.
• Lead project risk assessments, identify mitigation actions, and proactively manage issues, scope changes, and tradeoffs.
• Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, stand ups, and gate reviews, driving clear decisions, action ownership, and follow through.
• Partner with Engineering and Maintenance to plan and execute equipment installations, line trials, and changeovers with minimal disruption to operations.
• Provide structured project governance, including status reporting, milestone tracking, and KPI dashboards for plant and BU leadership.
• Ensure all projects comply with safety, quality, regulatory, and corporate policies, including contractor management and lockout/tagout requirements.
• Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain to source equipment, services, and materials, and to align project timelines with supply plans.
• Develop and maintain standard project management templates, tools, and best practices to raise the overall project management maturity of the organization.
• Champion change management, including stakeholder analysis, communication plans, and training to enable smooth adoption of new processes and technologies.
• Coach plant and functional leaders on basic project management disciplines to strengthen local execution capability.
• Support the development and commercialization of new products by coordinating trials, validation activities, and scale up plans across plants.
• Benchmark internal and external best practices, and recommend innovative approaches to improve project delivery speed, reliability, and ROI.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in a project management role supporting manufacturing, production, and/or facilities operations
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification strongly preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher preferred.
• Proven track record leading cross functional projects that deliver measurable…