Project Manager - Operational Excellence

Take Charge of Your Career at Interstates

At Interstates, we don’t just show up to work, we show up for each other. From our headquarters in Iowa to job sites across the country, we’re doing award-winning electrical, controls, automation, and OT work that powers industrial facilities for clients here in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you’re bending conduit, wiring panels, writing code, supporting projects, or helping things run behind the scenes, you’ll be part of a crew that works hard, shares laughs, and takes pride in doing quality work.

We believe in building strong teams, doing the right thing, and making a difference in the communities where we live. If you want to grow and do meaningful work, you’ll feel at home here.

At Interstates, we pursue a better way to deliver for our clients, our teams, and our communities. As we continue to grow and evolve, Operational Excellence helps us build reliable, efficient, and scalable ways of working; reducing waste, rework, and friction while improving quality and consistency

As a Project Manager for our Operational Excellence team, you will lead cross-functional initiatives that improve how work is planned, executed, measured, and delivered across Interstates. This role will partner with teams throughout the organization to establish clear processes, drive continuous improvement, strengthen customer-focused outcomes, and make performance visible through meaningful metrics.

The ideal candidate is an organized, collaborative, and improvement-minded leader who can turn ideas into sustainable results. This person will help teams start with proven standards, identify opportunities to work better, and implement solutions that create lasting value for both internal and external customers.

Here, integrity, trust and safety are always top of mind. Our work is exciting, and every single day is different. We will work together to solve problems, and we'll provide you with the training and support you need to craft a strong career path. You'll do it all at a dynamic, growing company that provides you with a competitive salary and outstanding benefits.

At Interstates, our success starts with yours.

• Caring co-workers treat each other like family
• Be treated like an individual, not just a number
• Flexible schedules allow you to focus on your personal life as well as work life
• Lunch gatherings and social activities promote fun and camaraderie
• Support charities and your community through events sponsored and hosted by Interstates

• Providing opportunities for our people
• Making a difference with our clients
• Pursuing a better way

• Lead Operational Excellence projects from planning through implementation and sustainment.
• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, resource requirements, and communication strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand current processes, identify friction points, and define desired outcomes.
• Establish and improve standardized processes, workflows, tools, and documentation.
• Facilitate continuous improvement activities, including process reviews, and “Make Work Better” initiatives.
• Ensure project solutions are practical, scalable, customer-focused, and aligned with the Interstates Way.
• Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions; develop mitigation plans as needed.
• Communicate project status, outcomes, and next steps clearly to project teams, leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Support change management, adoption, and sustainment of new processes and standards.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste, rework, delays, defects, and unnecessary complexity.
• Capture lessons learned and shared repeatable practices across teams and projects.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, and a culture of pursuing a better way.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of project planning, risk management, issue resolution, change management, and process improvement.
• Ability to analyze processes, identify improvement opportunities, and translate findings into practical solutions.
• Strong…