Associate Project Manager

Job Overview

The Associate Project Manager plays a key role in executing assigned Engineering tasks. This includes supporting the day-to-day operations within the capital project lifecycle, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, documentation, procurement, and cost accounting, are proactively managed and reported.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Engineering Project Managers in scope, budget, schedule, and communication management.
• Support Capital Project Engineering and stakeholders in creation, submittal, monitoring, and execution of capital requests.
• Enter approved capital requests in system and create project.
• Maintain project schedules, monitor task progress and identify/escalate schedule risk.
• Aid in budget work breakdown schedules (WBS), RFP/bid cycles, financial forecasting, cost accounting, and variance reporting of actual versus estimated costs.
• Maintain dashboards, status updates, and standardized reporting for stakeholder visibility.
• Escalate identified risks to scope, schedule, and budget to proper stakeholders for mitigation.
• Identify long-lead equipment and support early procurement planning.
• Generate purchase requisitions / purchase orders, monitor delivery, receive against budget, report on projected vs. actual costs, and verify against scope and percentage completion.
• Aid in contractor onboarding, scope clarification, and field coordination project progress against schedule and deliverables.
• Assist project team with updating of project registers (risk, action items list, et al.).
• Aid project team with documentation to ensure proper archiving, turnover and closure.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with external vendors, and within the organization.

Min. Qualifications

• Minimum of GED or High School Diploma is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM, business, or financial field preferred.
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office programs required.
• 1-2 years’ experience in project management, or related activity or coordination preferred.
• Experience working in a multi-site manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience with construction, engineering, or procurement practices preferred.

Pay And Benefits

• Salary Range – $72,000-$98,500 per year
• Competitive bonus programs
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits available day 1 of employment
• Supplemental benefits available on day 30 of employment
• Eligible for 401 (k) with a company match available on day 90 of employment
• Educational Support via tuition reimbursement and scholarship program

Work Shift and Location

6725 Lyons St. East Syracuse, NY 13057
Monday - Friday normal business hours.

Byrne

Byrne is a Central New York-based dairy company with a legacy spanning over 90 years. Its operations include an extended shelf-life (ESL) and ultra-high temperature (UHT) pasteurization plant in DeWitt, as well as an ESL manufacturing facility in Cortlandville. Byrne also maintains warehouse facilities in Syracuse and East Syracuse, along with a dedicated ice cream center in Syracuse. As a recognized industry leader, Byrne continues to drive innovation at the forefront of dairy processing and product development.