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Zurn Elkay · Onsite · Milwaukee, WI
Project Manager - Strategic Initiatives

The Company

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is a thriving, values-driven company focused on doing the right things. We’re a fast growing, publicly traded company (NYSE: ZWS), with an enduring reputation for integrity, giving back, and providing an engaging, inclusive environment where careers flourish and grow.

Named by Newsweek as One of America’s Most Responsible Companies and an Energage USA Top Workplace, at Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation, we never forget that our people are at the center of what makes us successful. They are the driving force behind our superior quality, product ingenuity, and exceptional customer experience. Our commitment to our people and their professional development is a recipe for success that has fueled our growth for over 100 years, as one of today’s leading international suppliers of plumbing and water delivery solutions.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation employs over 2800 employees worldwide, working from 24 locations across the U.S., China, Canada, Dubai, and Mexico, with sales offices available around the globe.  We hope you’ll visit our website and learn more about Zurn Elkay at zurnelkay.com.

If you’re ready to join a company where what you do makes a difference and you have pride in the work you are doing, talk to us about joining the Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation family!

If you are a current employee, please navigate here to apply internally.

Job Description

As a Project Manager at Zurn Elkay, you lead footprint optimization and integration projects for the Zurn Elkay business. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules and budget, identifying risks, and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders, including senior leadership. You will be responsible for providing program management support for strategic operations and distribution initiatives across a variety of business groups and geographies.

Key Accountabilities

  • Lead development of program schedules, expense and capital budgeting, and resource forecasting.  Ensuring integration of cross-functional schedules and deliverables.

  • Identify and manage risks, making judgments about quality and stopping/speeding up the program at the right time.

  • Lead the program scope definition and timely execution of key program decisions.  Manage program change after decisions are made.

  • Deliver the program on time via the allocation of time, budget, and resources

  • Lead the improvement of processes and tools

  • Drive accountability to schedules and budget by maintaining program schedules, scorecards, and facilitating project reviews.

  • Capture learnings and incorporate into new projects and process improvements.

Qualifications/Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in related field

  • 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or distribution environment – operations, engineering, supply chain, or similar role.

  • Demonstrated experience and success in managing projects.

  • Travel up to 35%

  • Strategic and creative thinker with strong analytical and decision-making skills that can achieve quality, service, cost, and profit goals.

  • Use influence to drive project results and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders include senior leadership.

  • Maintain agility and flexibility in a dynamic environment.

  • Well organized with exceptional written, verbal and formal presentation skills

  • Must possess team, organizational effectiveness skills, and financial/strategic acumen.

Capabilities and Success Factors

  • Strategic Mindset – Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

  • Business Insight – Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

  • Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

  • Plans & Aligns – Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

  • Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

The compensation range identified below are a good faith estimate of the salary expected to be paid as performed from these locations. Actual salaries may vary based on compensable factors including but not limited to skillset, experience, education and training, and other relevant business and organizational factors. Most candidates will start in the lower half of the range.

The Salary Range: $75,000 - $110,000

Total Rewards and Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, AD&D, and Life Insurance
  • Matching 401(k) Contribution
  • Health Savings Account
  • Up to 3 weeks starting Vacation (may increase with tenure)
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • Annual Bonus Eligibility
  • Educational Reimbursement
  • Matching Gift Program
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan – purchase company stock at a discount!

**THIRD PARTY AGENCY: Any unsolicited submissions received from recruitment agencies will be considered property of Zurn Elkay, and we will not be liable for any fees or obligations related to those submissions.**

Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

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How this Project Manager salary compares

This role pays $92,500/yr — below the typical range for Project Manager roles.

$100,347 median $122,516 $182,933

Typical range $108,419–$166,286/yr, from 8 comparable Project Manager listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See Project Manager salary insights →

About Zurn Elkay

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation What happens when two remarkable sustainability leaders come together as one? A sustainability powerhouse is born, making a splash in the markets they serve and saving the planet one innovative installation at a time. In early 2022, Zurn Water Solutions Corporation, a market leader in smart, sustainable water solutions, and Elkay Manufacturing, a commercial drinking water solutions leader, agreed to combine their two exceptional firms to become a single water solutions powerhouse. Together, the combined company offers a comprehensive package of innovative, sustainable, specified, engineered water solutions and sustainable plumbing products that provide

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