Sr. Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager

Weir Minerals

Madison, WI

Onsite

Purpose of Role: The Senior Project Manager plays a key role in guiding medium-to-large cross-functional projects that advance our product development and technology roadmap. You will lead and coordinate teams through structured planning and decisive execution—ensuring clarity, alignment, and disciplined project management. This role is well-suited for someone who takes initiative in a technical environment, values clear communication, and is energized by creating alignment and enabling teams to do their best work. As part of the PMO, you’ll help ensure New Product Development project delivery practices remain consistent, inclusive, and effective across the organization.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Delivery: Lead the planning and delivery of medium-to-large engineering or product development projects, ensuring objectives for scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk are met. Maintain clear plans, schedules, budgets, and risk registers to support transparency and shared understanding.
• Cross-Functional Leadership, Accountability & Engagement: Drive alignment and accountability across cross-functional project teams. Partner with engineering, product, operations, supply chain, test, and other technical groups to support effective problem-solving and decision-making and communicate with clarity, empathy, and proactivity to ensure stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Reporting, Governance & PMO Alignment: Prepare and maintain project documentation, schedules, budgets, and risks. Provide clear and structured reporting to leadership and PMO governance forums, and share project updates, issues, and recommendations in a way that enables informed action.
• Continuous Improvement, Process Creation & Initiative Ownership: Identify opportunities to strengthen project delivery, streamline workflows, and enhance consistency, and drive the creation, refinement, and ownership of project-related processes, tools, and PMO initiatives. Champion disciplined, repeatable practices across the project portfolio.
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Engineering, Project Management, Business, or related field
• 8+ years of project management experience leading cross functional engineering or product development projects
• 3-5 years of experience with new product development

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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