Operations Project Manager

About the role

CMC Group, Inc. is seeking a highly organized and collaborative CME Operations Project Manager to drive key operational projects and strategic initiatives from planning through successful implementation. Reporting to the EVP of Operations, this role partners with operations leaders and cross-functional teams to define project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, risks, and success measures while keeping priorities visible and moving work forward. The ideal candidate will build alignment across manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain, quality, engineering, maintenance, IT, safety, commercial teams, and other stakeholders to deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, capacity, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned CME operations projects from concept and prioritization through implementation, stabilization, and closeout.
• Partner with the CME Operations team, functional leaders, and project stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, business value, ownership, timing, resource needs, budgets, and success measures.
• Maintain the consolidated CME operations project portfolio, including priorities, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and resource constraints.
• Develop and maintain practical project plans, action trackers, meeting notes, decision logs, dashboards, and executive status reports.
• Lead cross-functional project meetings, confirm commitments and due dates, follow up on open actions, and hold project teams accountable for agreed-upon deliverables.
• Coordinate projects involving manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain, quality, engineering, maintenance, information technology, safety, commercial teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders as required.
• Monitor project performance against schedule, budget, scope, quality, and expected operational benefits; recommend corrective actions when performance is off plan.
• Identify project risks, constraints, and competing priorities early; develop mitigation plans and escalate material issues or decisions through the appropriate CME Operations leadership channels.
• Support capital equipment, facility, process improvement, capacity expansion, automation, systems implementation, product commercialization, new business start-up initiatives and operational readiness initiatives across CME.
• Coordinate implementation planning, including testing, training, standard work, documentation, communications, and transition to operational ownership.
• Use data and operational metrics to validate project needs, measure outcomes, and confirm that completed initiatives deliver intended results.
• Promote consistent project management practices across CME and continuously improve project intake, prioritization, governance, reporting, and closeout processes.
• Build productive working relationships, facilitate timely decisions, resolve routine project conflicts, and keep stakeholders informed of progress and changes.
• Perform other operations project and initiative responsibilities in support of the CME Operations team as assigned.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of at least one of the following: Printing, Packaging, Labeling, Graphics, blending, manufacturing and operations environments, including safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, capacity, and continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of project management methods, scheduling, budgeting, resource planning, risk management, change management, and project governance.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, organize competing priorities, and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Ability to translate operational needs into clear project requirements, action plans, ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to identify issues, evaluate alternatives, and support decisions.
• Effective written, verbal, presentation, meeting facilitation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proficiency with business applications and project tools used for schedules, action tracking, documentation, collaboration, dashboards, and reporting.
• Ability to influence without direct authority, build alignment across functions, address conflict constructively, and drive accountability for commitments.
• Sound judgment regarding when to resolve issues independently and when to escalate risks, resource conflicts, or decisions to leadership.

Qualifications

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Two or more years of project coordination or project management experience, preferably in at least one of the following: Printing, Blending, Packaging, Labeling, Graphic, manufacturing, converting, warehousing, supply chain, engineering, or another operations environment.
• Experience supporting cross-functional projects, capital initiatives, process improvements, implementations, or operational change is preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Reaching for phone and keyboard.
• Fingering, grasping and feeling.
• Talking, hearing and repetitive motion.
• Sedentary work—exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body; sitting most of the time.
• Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally.
• Required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.