City of Shakopee

Job Title

Senior Project Manager

About Us:

Anchor Glass Container Corporation, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is a leading North American manufacturer of premium glass containers with five, strategically located production facilities throughout the US. Founded in 1983, Anchor serves many of the most iconic and recognizable consumer packaging brands in the beer, beverage, spirits and food industries. Anchor Glass Container Corporation strives to exceed customer expectations through unrelenting attention to detail. What we do goes beyond glass making. We find incredible meaning in all the small things that create enriching experiences for customers and consumers alike. Everything we do – creating, customizing, shipping, collaborating – we do with the customer’s best interests in mind. Each solution is the result of a thousand-and-one details coming together in brilliant succession, thanks to our team of experts that do whatever it takes to make life easier and more enjoyable for our customers. With over 2,000 US-based team members, Anchor Glass has the size and scale to service all of your glass packaging needs, without the complexity and bureaucracy associated with larger suppliers. Excellence is in the details!

Anchor Glass in an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Summary

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end planning, financial oversight, and execution of large-scale, high-impact, multi-million-dollar capital projects across Anchor Glass. This role oversees complex rebuilds and equipment modernization initiatives – including furnace rebuilds, IS machine installations, and equipment upgrades (Inspection, Conveying and Packaging), Facility infrastructure, etc. – ensuring safe, on-time, and on-budget delivery. The Senior Project Manager will serve as the primary interface between engineering, operations, supply chain, and external contractors. This role will establish governance processes, drive executional discipline, and proactively manage risk, vendor performance, and stakeholder alignment through project life cycle.

MAIN POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement and Maintain Project Management Governance and Controls: Implement and manage the tools, project KPI’s, budget, processes, and governance structures necessary to manage project schedules, milestones, and reporting across all phases-from planning through completion.
• Develop and Own the Master Project Plan: Build integrated project timelines across internal and external stakeholders (e.g., operations, engineering, third party vendors), including critical path analysis and sequencing logic.
• Lead On-Site Readiness and Execution: Oversee logistical planning, contractor staging, material tracking, QC systems, and on-site coordination to ensure construction readiness and effective execution.
• Facilitate Project Meetings and Communication: Facilitate and lead daily stand-ups, weekly reviews, and phase-based meetings to maintain alignment with senior leadership (SLT), commercial, and operations teams. Provide transparent reporting through KPIs and dashboards (weekly/monthly for internal stakeholders, quarterly for board).
• Critical Path & Risk Management: Proactively identify, communicate, and address risks or constraints to eliminate delays and change orders. Lead workshops to reduce schedule duration and improve resource alignment.
• Drive Work Rate Discipline: Monitor daily physical work progress, manage RFIs, and resolve field-level issues in real time to sustain project momentum.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the point of contact for coordination between SLT, commercial, supply chain and operations teams to eliminate internal bottlenecks for contractor execution.
• Training & Change Management: Deliver targeted training and change management strategies to drive successful implementation.
• Promote Continuous Improvement: Standardize project tools and processes to improve efficiency and enable future capital project scalability.

EMPLOYEE QUALIFICATIONS:

EMPLOYEE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/operations/supply chain management/mathematics or similar degree; advanced technical and engineering expertise required.

• 10+ years of progressive project management experience within a manufacturing environment, glass industry preferred, with a demonstrated track record of leading multi-million dollar, highly complex, and large-scale capital projects.

• Project Management Certification, Six Sigma or Agile Certifications required.

• Strong cross functional collaboration skills, ability to work through conflicting objectives to achieve desired results.

• Continuous Improvement mindset, detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to include written and verbal.

• Proficient in PC based applications (such as Microsoft Office products, Windows 10, Smartsheet, Power BI etc.)

• Travel up to 50% of time.