Project Manager - New Products Industrial

About the role

Intralox's New Product Development Industrial Business Unit is seeking a technically sharp, strategically minded, and pragmatic project leader to drive the development of conveyance solutions for major global manufacturers. This role supports a constantly shifting industry and complex product offerings, requiring strong organization, flexibility, and the ability to solve problems transparently. As a company whose key principles focus on change, curiosity, tenacity, and a love of learning, Intralox believes strongly that who we are as a company is based on who we have working with us. We are looking for someone who can objectively evaluate their landscape, ask the right questions to understand gaps, build a plan to address those gaps—and most importantly, who is a dynamic and engaged communicator with a special talent for getting teams excited for the ride. You won't just be managing Gantt charts—you'll be a core contributor in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment where product development moves quickly and is shaped by close proximity to end-user needs. You'll collaborate with talented mechanical engineers, plastic injection mold designers, application experts, commercial representatives, and manufacturing partners to turn concepts into real-world, production-ready systems that solve pressing customer problems.

Who you are

• A pragmatic project leader who thrives in ambiguity and moves with purpose
• A self-managed stakeholder invested in seeing a product go from ideation to market
• A communicator who earns trust across functions and motivates teams through clarity, urgency, and vision
• Understands the value of relationships to achieve shared goals
• Deeply curious and focused on end-user needs—you operate within a technical team guided by the goal of solving customer problems and generating end-user value
• Not just a task manager—you think like an owner

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Ensure alignment with business objectives and end-user requirements, serving as the connective tissue between engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and commercial teams
• Build and manage timelines, project scopes, and resource plans while maintaining flexibility and a problem-solving mindset
• Facilitate clear, concise communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving accountability and decision-making
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks while championing a bias for execution and continuous learning
• Identifies opportunities to add process where it brings value, and challenge (or eliminate) process where it creates waste
• Drives urgency, both within the team and with external resources
• Identifies assumptions and has the confidence to challenge them

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• Demonstrated familiarity with mechanical design and manufacturing processes preferred
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and multiple stakeholders
• Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
• Willingness to travel up to 10%, as needed or as interested

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent technical
• Previous Project Management experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in new product development, preferably within manufacturing or industrial environments
• Experience working directly on the development of plastic injection molded components would be nice to have
• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams in complex, ambiguous environments
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and project management software
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or Agile experience (a plus but not required)