Manager, Project Management - Equipment

With over $2B in revenue, 80+ manufacturing facilities across 6 continents and over 9,000 employees worldwide, Signode is a leading manufacturer of a broad spectrum of transit packaging consumables, tools, software, and equipment that optimize end-of-line packaging operations and protect products in transit. Signode brings this extensive product portfolio together under hundreds of trusted brands to offer complete transit packaging solutions to its customers.

We produce strap, stretch and protective packaging. We also manufacture packaging tools and equipment used to apply the bulk packaging materials. These commercial packaging products are used to pack, bundle, unitize, protect, and secure goods during warehousing and transit. Our company is a pioneer in the industrial packaging sector with a long history of customer-focused innovations in materials, processes and automation technology that have revolutionized the sector.

Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, we are proud to be the Transit Packaging Division of Crown Holdings, Inc. We are excited to go to market as Signode and to share the portfolio of products, services and capabilities that make us the world's premier end-of-line packaging company.

Signode offers a comprehensive benefits package to full-time employees, which includes health, dental, vision, 401k, paid time off, life insurance, wellness perks, and more. Benefits begin the month following the hire date.

The annual salary for this position ranges from $140,000 - $155,000 + 10% Bonus Target and varies based on specific responsibilities and geographic location. Starting annual salary within this range will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and/or skillset.

The Manager, Project Management
- Equipment leads North American equipment order fulfillment from order receipt through customer site acceptance, building a more disciplined and scalable project delivery model. This role sets project management standards, strengthens documentation discipline, manages selected high-impact projects, and leads project managers and customer service agents to deliver equipment on time and within budget.

This role is suited for a hands-on leader who can bring structure to a complex, cross-functional environment. The successful candidate will be expected to define process flows, create alignment across functions, and use data, process discipline, and follow-through to improve project execution.

• Establish, implement, and continuously improve standard project management processes North American customer equipment orders, ensuring customer expectations are clear, decisions are documented, and projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Lead a team of five project managers and customer service agents, setting clear expectations for communication, documentation, project control, and customer follow-through.
• Contribute customer priorities, project risk, and equipment-order visibility to the SIOP process, supporting engineering capacity, operational capacity, and facility-selection reviews, so delivery commitments are realistic, visible, and executable.
• Drive readiness, execution, and closure of factory and site acceptance tests, ensuring open issues, punch-list items, customer decisions, and acceptance criteria are documented, owned, and resolved.
• Lead project execution discipline for warehouse automation and ASRS projects, coordinating scope, schedule, risk, customer readiness, and cross-functional handoffs to support successful delivery as this business expands in North America.
• Own ERP data quality for new equipment sales orders, ensuring order data is accurate, current, and updated promptly when scope, schedule, cost, or fulfillment assumptions change.
• Develop and use KPIs to monitor project cost, timeline, quality, customer readiness, and decision-cycle performance; use the data to identify root causes, drive corrective action, and improve project delivery discipline over time.

• Bachelor's degree required (engineering or other technical degree preferred)
• PMI/PMP certification is a plus.

• 5+ years of experience in project management, proposals, service, engineering, or technical customer-order execution, with the ability to interpret technical documentation, order requirements, and customer acceptance criteria.
• 3+ years of experience leading people, with demonstrated ability to coach,…