Project Manager, Strategic Planning & Execution

Job description

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.

Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We’re fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we’re always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.

The Project Manager, Strategic Planning & Execution is part of AMP’s centralized enablement function and is responsible for the day-to-day management and successful delivery of complex multi-year projects, involving stakeholders from mechanical engineering, facility operations, installation, supply chain and other cross-functional teams, from initiation through closeout. This role serves as the primary point of accountability for project execution, ensuring the project remains on schedule, within budget and scope, and aligned with project and organizational requirements. A key focus of the role is ensuring all contractual obligations, milestones, and deliverables are clearly understood, tracked, and successfully completed.

The Project Manager, Strategic Planning & Execution works across functional and organizational boundaries to drive execution, establish accountability, manage interdependencies, and maintain transparency into project health. The role applies standardized PMO methodologies, governance processes, tools, and best practices to ensure consistent, effective, and successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day project outcomes of a complex, high-visibility project through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closeout.

• Ensure adherence to all applicable contractual, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements throughout project execution by proactively identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating contract-related risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, while maintaining compliance oversight and supporting timely resolution of contractual obligations.

• Effectively manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and outcomes.

• Drive execution across cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and workstreams to achieve project commitments and deliverables.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and performance measures.

• Monitor and report project health, including progress, KPIs, budget, schedule, risks, issues, and key decisions.

• Ensure project change control is applied, assessing impact and ensuring approved changes are documented, communicated, and incorporated into project plans.

• Facilitate and document project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making sessions.

• Apply PMO standards, methodologies, tools, and governance requirements, including stage gates and documentation standards. This includes maintaining accurate project documentation, records, decision logs, RAID logs, and project repositories.

• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery, tools, processes, and stakeholder adoption.

Key Skills

• Project Management Expertise: Extensive experience successfully leading complex projects throughout the full project lifecycle in an industrial, manufacturing, engineering environment.

• Project Planning & Execution: Advanced proficiency in developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, and resource requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

• Compliance & Controls: Advanced expertise in analyzing, communicating, tracking, and managing contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements while ensuring compliance and governance adherence.

• Problem Solving & Decision Making: Strong analytical skills and ability to resolve complex project challenges and provide actionable recommendations

• Stakeholder Management: Build alignment and maintain effective relationships with project sponsors, functional leaders, and project teams.

• Communication: Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skill

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