Project Manager, Operations Management

Salary Range: $77,500.00 To $95,000.00 Annually

If you are looking for a company where you can grow and develop alongside respectfully collaborative teams, join us at Oliver Packaging and Equipment Company. With a history dating back to 1890, we offer the stability of a well-established organization and the support of colleagues who truly value one another. In addition to competitive base pay, we provide a generous benefits package, including a bonus plan, a 5% 401(k) match, 15 days of paid time off, and 10 paid holidays in your first year (pro-rated in year one).

Our culture is built on teamwork and a shared commitment to creating and delivering packaging and equipment solutions around the globe. You’ll see your work make a real impact—in places like Walmart and Panera Bread, in schools providing meals to children, through programs like Meals on Wheels supporting seniors, and in hospitals helping patients in recovery.

If you want your work to matter and to be part of a supportive team with a strong foundation and long‑term vision, this is the opportunity for you.

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

The Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning and execution of New Product Development (NPD), Market Response, Cost Reduction, Product Quality Enhancement, and other assigned cross‑functional projects from initiation through approval, launch, and closeout. This position establishes project structure, maintains schedules and deliverables, facilitates phase‑gate reviews, coordinates resources and functional handoffs, identifies project risks, and provides clear project status visibility to stakeholders and leadership.

Reporting to the Manager of Engineering and Quality, the Project Manager works closely with Engineering, Quality, Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and other functional partners. The role leads projects through Oliver’s NPD Phase Gate Process and helps ensure that technical, quality, manufacturing, commercial, and launch‑readiness requirements are defined, completed, documented, and approved before a project advances to the next phase gate.

• Serve as the project leader for Oliver's New Product Development Phase Gate Process, ensuring all gate deliverables, approvals, risks, resource requirements, and launch‑readiness criteria are completed and documented before project advancement.
• Facilitate NPD project meetings, establish agendas, document decisions and action items, assign and follow up on owners and due dates, and maintain an effective meeting cadence.
• Lead phase‑gate reviews and coordinate completion and approval of required deliverables before advancing projects to the next development stage.
• Develop and maintain project charters, scope statements, schedules, milestones, responsibility assignments, risk and issue logs, decision logs, project financial tracking , and status reports as appropriate to project complexity.
• Coordinate project activities among Engineering, Quality, Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Management and project sponsors to translate business and product objectives into defined project requirements, deliverables, success criteria, and launch plans.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Quality on design reviews, manufacturing readiness, qualification plans, design and process risk reviews, verification and validation, and controlled release activities.
• Coordinate the development, review, and completion of technical project…