Strategic Project Manager

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🌲 North Carolina, Virginia – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $105k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Smithfield Foods

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

🌾 Agriculture

Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Smithfield Foods is a leading global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. The company offers high-quality meat products under a variety of popular brand names, including Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, and Carando. Smithfield Foods is renowned for its innovative approaches, combining tradition with technology, to drive the future of food. The company is committed to sustainability, supporting communities, and producing safe, affordable, and high-quality food products. In addition to its core operations, Smithfield Foods actively engages in community support endeavors, such as addressing food insecurity and supporting veterans.

📋 Description

• Responsible for developing preliminary designs and specifications for engineering and materials, while also preparing project cost estimates. • Conducting research, feasibility studies, and economic studies to ensure the design is both viable and cost-effective. • Determining design criteria based on required standards and codes, and validating field work, creating as-built drawings to document the final outcome. • Reviewing and checking engineering projects for accuracy and soundness and managing project execution by guiding vendors and contractors. • Coordinating project schedules with plant personnel, vendors, and contractors, ensuring alignment with management and engineering teams to successfully implement plans. • Accountable for coordinating and providing direction to equipment vendors to plan layouts, ensure utility requirements are met, and maintain installation schedules. • Reviewing work products submitted by consultants, offering recommendations for adjustments as necessary. • Maintaining comprehensive documentation, including equipment manuals, mechanical and electrical drawings, parts lists, specifications, and vendor/service contact information, ensuring all project details are properly organized and accessible. • Conducting engineering planning, design, and operational reviews during pre-project studies to assess feasibility and ensure alignment with project goals. • Determining the scope of work, preparing requests for proposals, and evaluating the proposals received to select the best approach. • Submitting detailed reports to management by established deadlines, keeping them informed on progress and key project developments. • Responsible for contract administration, including reviewing bid packages to ensure compliance and completeness. • Preparing essential project documents, such as justifications, budget analyses, calculations, plans, and schedules, to guide project execution. • Monitoring installations to ensure that proposal specifications and budgets are met, and managing assigned budget activities to maintain financial control and accountability throughout the project lifecycle. Driving a positive employee experience through leadership by way of employee development and coaching.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university in Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience, required. • 2+ years’ experience in a position of leadership to include team development and management, required. • Ability to apply sound engineering principles to operational and design issues. • Knowledge of installation and construction project scheduling. • Must possess Project Management skills; Contract Administration skills; National codes and standards interpretation skills. • Proficient in engineering economics. • Proficient in AutoCAD. • Proficient in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software and Word processing software, other Microsoft Office products. • Energized by collaboration through travel to other locations. (50% of the time).

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities • Tuition assistance • Employee scholarship program