Associate Project Manager - Facilities

Production lines run 24/7 on rotating 12-hour shifts. JCS Machine is an industrial manufacturer with 220 employees and plants in eight countries. Clean shop, organized with 5S, and nobody leaves tools out.

Role overview

Looking for an Associate Project Manager - Facilities who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Looking for someone who runs a tight meeting, writes a status report people actually read and escalates early. We use Smartsheet for schedules and Jira for the technical work. MS Project experience is fine too. Remote, open to candidates across the US. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Day to day

• Escalate blockers before they turn into missed dates
• Coordinate work across IT, operations, finance and vendors
• Close projects with lessons learned and a clean handoff to operations
• Oversee vendor statements of work and deliverables
• Handle change requests and their effect on scope, time and cost
• Plan and support go-lives, including cutover and rollback steps

Minimum qualifications

• 0-2 years of project management experience
• Working knowledge of waterfall and Agile methods
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Strong written status reporting

Starting pay: $77,000 to $89,000 per year, depending on experience and certifications.

Perks and benefits

• Home office stipend
• Referral program

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at JCS Machine.