Position Title: Project Manager

Department: Sales Execution

Division: AGI Food

Location: Woodbridge, ON

Responsibilities:

• Direct large and/or complex projects with a high business impact from inception to closure.
• Accountable for the operational and engineering excellence of project.
• Execute against medium- and long-term strategic plans to help AGI Food gain market share in the sectors we serve.
• Lead major capital projects, over-seeing project teams, identify all equipment capabilities, utility & infrastructure requirements, and develop Process Flow Diagrams and layout concepts.
• Coach and mentor team members, providing regular performance reviews, and feedback to ensure alignment of goals, deliverables exceptional performance.
• Regularly inspect installation activities at client sites to ensure proper installation of all intended project designs. Regularly inspect that contractor’s appropriate management is in place, including adherence to client safety measures.
• Standardize project execution process.
• Support site start-up team and troubleshoot issues when they arise. If required, work with vendor technicians to remediate issues.
• Develop and maintain project plans and coordinate project activities; track critical path milestones, accomplishments, and results.
• Ensure that end-to-end project planning, risk identification, dependency tricking, issues. identification /escalation and change management are being managed appropriately through team resources, utilizing best practice project management standards.
• Liaise with regulatory bodies, municipal and local authorities regarding codes, regulations, etc. to ensure minimal disruption to project milestones and plan.
• Build relationships with senior leaders and other program/project owners; interact with, prepare materials for, and present to principals as required.
• Collaborate with members of the Senior Leadership Team, building strong partnerships with leaders across the organization.
• Enhance our reputation with our client base, by delivering project deliverables, maintain positive relationships, leading to additional business opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership for the design and execution of projects.
• Contribute to the development of budgets related to engineering team resourcing and projects.
• Able to work flexible hours and multi-task in a fast paced, dynamic, high-pressured environment - managing changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Manage to budget and schedule constraints on all work executed for AGI Food.
• Recommend, manage, and implement efforts to streamline the organization’s processes and establish best practices through regular inspection and feedback mechanisms from PM team.

Qualifications

• University Degree in Engineering, supplemented with Project Management and/or Business Management education is an asset.
• The ideal candidate will have 7+ years previous project engineering, project management and/or manufacturing experience in the food manufacturing and pet food/nutrition sectors.
• 5+ years of cross-functional team leadership experience.
• Member of, and in good standing with the PEO and/or other related professional organizations.
• A history of effectively managing managers, junior engineers across multiple teams and functions.
• Advanced capabilities in quantitative and data analysis; Proven ability to conduct research/analysis, organize and interpret findings, and build presentations that facilitate Senior Management decision making.
• Working knowledge of CFIA, FDA and USDA food equipment and design standards.
• Understanding food plant Good Manufacturing Processes (GMPs), area designations, clean design requirements and the impact to process and equipment layout designs.
• Software Application and Technical Knowledge: advanced skills using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Project, and AutoCAD