[Remote] Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is seeking a senior, hands-on Project Engineer / Project Manager to lead active food manufacturing projects. This role focuses on managing project scope, schedules, budgets, and ensuring effective execution in fast-moving plant environments, particularly in dairy and food processing sectors.
Responsibilities
- Step into live projects and quickly understand scope, priorities, and risk
- Own day‑to‑day project execution from kickoff through installation and startup
- Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, and deliverable
- Coordinate across engineering, procurement, fabrication, and site team
- Ensure work is progressing safely, on spec, and on budget
- Bring organization to complex projects and relieve pressure on existing team
Skills
- Food manufacturing / food processing experience (top priority)
- Strong preference for dairy, cheese, yogurt, or ingredient processing
- Project Management and/or Project / Process Engineering experience in an industrial or plant environment
- Proven ability to own project scope, timelines, budgets, and client communication
- Comfortable with travel and onsite project work
- Strong cross-functional coordination and leadership skills
- Experience with P&IDs, piping layouts, 3D models, skids, and stainless-steel systems
- Exposure to FAT/SAT, commissioning
- Direct dairy or cheese project experience
- Engineering degree (Mechanical, Chemical, Manufacturing)
Benefits
- Benefits are available including medical, vision, and dental, and life and disability insurance.
- Employees hired for our FTEP Program are also eligible to enroll in our company’s 401(k) or deferred compensation plan (if eligible).
- FTEP employees also earn paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time and paid holidays.
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