Project Manager
Job Description
- Collaborate with the Regional Sales Manager to create project documentation detailing customer requirements, scope, and machine specifications.
- Maintain ERP system records, including order entries, serial numbers, and project-related change orders; coordinate with finance as needed.
- Coordinates with the scheduler and stakeholders to create and adjust work plans using Spee-Dee templates and timelines, addressing design, assembly, operational, shipping, and other changes as needed.
- Provide consistent project status updates to customers, internal teams, and stakeholders, including weekly written reports.
- Serve as the primary customer liaison for project schedules, deliverables, and testing requirements, ensuring all decisions and updates are documented.
- Coordinate and facilitate any testing necessary to support the project. Such testing may include applications testing and FAT testing.
- Participate in solution design, testing, training, and/or creation of documentation as necessary to ensure project success.
- Coordinate freight details and timing with the shipping team.
- Perform other duties as necessary for the success of the Spee-Dee sales organization.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to provide clear updates to customers, stakeholders, and internal teams.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical skills to address project challenges and adapt plans as needed.
- Skilled in working effectively with cross-functional teams, including sales, engineering, operations, and finance.
- Proficiency in ERP systems, project management tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Capability to lead projects, align diverse teams, and maintain accountability for deliverables.
- Ability to respond to dynamic project needs and customer-driven changes with flexibility and efficiency.
- Ensures all project requirements, changes, and deliverables are documented accurately.
- Bachelor’s degree in a Business Management or Engineering related discipline.
- 3+ years of project management experience, preferably in packaging machinery or a related manufacturing environment.
- Spanish speaking preferred
Meet Your Recruiter

Max Francis
Technical Recruiter
Max Francis is a seasoned Engineering Recruiter specializing in the Automation Division at Sterling. With five years of invaluable experience in recruitment, Max is on a mission to help individuals find their perfect career move—one that aligns with their professional goals and supports their families.
As an Engineering Recruiter, Max excels in the Automation Division, leveraging his deep industry knowledge to connect candidates with opportunities tailor-made for their unique skill sets and aspirations. He understands that finding the right career move is a pivotal moment in people's lives, and he thrives on being a part of that journey.
What Max finds most exciting and rewarding about his work is the opportunity to guide individuals to their ideal career fit. He recognizes that this transition is an exhilarating time for most people, and he derives immense satisfaction from helping them navigate the path toward their next professional adventure.
Max's advice to job seekers is grounded in the value of connections. He believes that having a well-connected recruiter within the industry you aspire to be in can open doors to companies and positions that may not be readily available on job boards. In today's competitive job market, he encourages candidates to connect with a recruiter early in their job search journey. While he advocates for candidates to continue their independent job searches, he emphasizes the benefit of having an additional set of experienced eyes on the market.