Senior Project Manager, Engineering

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IL Oak Brook

Job Type:

Engineering

Job Posting Title:

Senior Project Manager, Engineering

About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain: 

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!

• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.

• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

Job Description:

About the Role:

We are seeking a strategic and collaborative Senior Project Manager, Engineering, to lead capital planning and project execution across multiple food manufacturing facilities. This hands-on role will own high-impact capital projects from concept through start-up and handoff to Operations, modernizing process, packaging, automation, utilities, facilities, and safety systems across our manufacturing network. You will guide on-site technical resources in developing and executing a 5-year capital plan aligned with our broader business strategy and use a structured Initiative Management process to deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable results.

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Own assigned capital projects end-to-end, from concept and scope through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, start-up, and seamless handoff to Operations.
• Collaboratively form and lead internal and external cross functional resources to develop a 5-year capital plan for manufacturing facilities in scope. 
• Build and drive project scope, budget, and schedule, balancing speed, cost, quality, safety, and operational impact.
• Create clear capital-approval and engineering deliverables, including charters, screening scopes, estimates, business cases, justifications, schedules, and technical specifications.
• Lead vendors, contractors, partner engineering firms, and internal experts through procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning.
• Responsible for the team’s project KPIs including safety, food safety, environmental impacts, operational impacts, adherence to scope, CQV performance, on time delivery, cash flow, and overall budget tracking.
• Identify and manage execution risks early, maintain stakeholder alignment, and use disciplined escalation and change management to protect project outcomes.
• Lead start-up and early equipment management to deliver stable, repeatable performance and a confident ramp-up for manufacturing teams.
• Mentor, coach and lead team members, both internal and external, to ensure resources meet the business’ engineering needs.

Important Details:

• This is a full-time role that is expected to travel approximately 50% across assigned plants.
• This remote role may be based near any of our manufacturing facilities, with preference for candidates near a major airport, particularly in the Chicago, Atlanta, or Dallas metro areas
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $132,300.00 - 198,500.00 USD Annually. This is the lowest to highest salary that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
• 7+ years of project management experience, including responsibility for multiple capital projects totaling approximately $10M annually
• Demonstrated experience leading capital projects in a food manufacturing environment across project engineering and/or project management
• Experienced in multi-site capital planning.  Demonstrated strategic planning capabilities
• Experience with utility systems, wastewater pre-treatments systems, ingredient handling, food processing, and primary and secondary packaging systems preferred
• Formal project management training or certifications are a plus
• Demonstrated track record of following LEAN Capital Initiative Management processes
• An operational excellence mindset, challenging current processes both internally and externally with a commitment to bringing adaptable solutions forward
• Clear, confident communication, technical writing, stakeholder management, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Comfortable communicating, presenting & influencing senior leadership on key technical issues
• Proficient with CADD and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.  Proven effectiveness in working collaboratively within a matrix organization

                                                             

                                                                                                                                           

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Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team!

At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected]

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