We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager who knows how to turn complex plans into finished products and take a project across the finish line. In this hands-on role, you’ll bring teams together, remove roadblocks, and drive the transition from final design into production and customer delivery. If you bring technical understanding, clear communication, and the initiative to keep people and priorities moving, we’d like to hear from you.
Why Kendall Howard?
We’re a growing manufacturer serving the IT infrastructure field, with a no-nonsense attitude: stay humble, work hard, and take on challenges head-on. Around here, you won’t just “do your job” — you’ll be part of a team that builds, solves, and delivers products we’re proud to put our name on. The benefits and pay are solid, but the real perk is being part of something that matters alongside people who care just as much as you do.
Our Benefits
We know benefits matter, and we’ve got you covered. Full-time employees enjoy:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- Supplemental insurance options
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid holidays
- Online apparel store
Position Summary
The Senior Project Manager leads assigned projects from final design through high-volume production, delivery, and ongoing field support, ensuring quality standards, customer requirements, and delivery timelines are met. This role partners with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations to improve production workflows, guide design for manufacturability, integrate product revisions, and resolve technical issues and risks that affect production. The Senior Project Manager also establishes scalable project and service processes, maintains accurate documentation, and provides clear, data-driven communication to internal teams and customers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to continue the development and refine the production ecosystem required to maintain new orders of the assigned project.
- Identify bottlenecks in the current workflow and implement scalable project management structures to move product through the production process faster without the sacrifice of quality.
- Manage the transition of the product from the final design stages into high-volume production and eventual delivery.
- Lead the “Design for Manufacturability” (DFM) feedback loop, ensuring that engineering revisions are practical for the production line.
- Oversee technical product revisions, ensuring that updates are integrated into the build process without stalling production momentum.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for resolving production-stalling issues on the floor.
- Coordinate the logistics of getting finished products into the field, ensuring all customer-specific requirements are met.
- Establish the service and support framework for the assigned project, ensuring that field data is captured and used to improve future production runs.
- Provide transparent, data-driven updates to internal teams and external customers regarding production status and delivery timelines.
- Identify risks in the supply chain or production flow early and drive the cross-functional solutions needed to keep the line moving.
- Ensure all project documentation, engineering changes, and quality certifications are meticulously maintained as the assigned product line evolves.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering or related technical fields
- PMP Certification
The right candidate for this role will have:
- Builder Mentality: Experience building or significantly improving manufacturing processes for new products. You thrive in environments where you need to create the roadmap while driving the car.
- Proven Winning Track Record: You have successfully managed high-value product lines that have successfully moved into production. We are looking for someone who has "been there, done that" with complex machinery or vehicles.
- Project Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in project management tools and methodologies, with a focus on hardware and manufacturing lifecycles.
- Grit & Accountability: A high sense of urgency and the ability to maintain composure while managing a high-volume backlog and shifting priorities.
Kendall Howard provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability. We are dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Engineering or a related technical field
- PMP certification
- Experience building or significantly improving manufacturing processes for new products
- Successful management of high-value product lines through production, particularly complex machinery or vehicles
- Expert proficiency in project management tools and methodologies focused on hardware and manufacturing lifecycles
- Ability to manage high-volume backlogs and shifting priorities with urgency and composure
What We Do
Kendall Howard has one simple philosophy...The Answer is Yes! What's the Question? This philosophy has been the cornerstone in a foundation that has helped us grow into the company we are today - a leader in the IT Rackmount Furniture industry that now operates in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in Chisago City, MN. What began as an idea in the spring of 2000 has shaped and changed the way companies and installers look at IT Furniture, Server Racks, and Rack Accessories. With a commitment to exceeding our customer’s expectations we began by listening to what Installers, IT Managers, and Network Engineers were saying about racks and IT furniture. Rather than doing it the way everyone else does, we charted a path to manufacture more functional, cost effective, innovative products and solutions that keep up with evolving technology and compete with the flood of imported products. Some people wondered if it could be done. After all, racks and IT Furniture are only a small component of your IT infrastructure. At Kendall Howard we consistently prove that you actually can have the best product, with the best customer service, at the best price. We exceed our Customer’s expectations every day by focusing on The Customer: •Quality American-made products •Offering a Limited Lifetime Warranty •Unprecedented customer service We offer custom manufacturing of your product from start to finish, including the engineering, marketing, deployment and everything in-between.
