{"id":3432147,"url":"https://alion.io/job/planitroi-project-manager-repair-refurbishment","title":"Project Manager - Repair & Refurbishment","company":{"id":3905890,"name":"PlanITROI","domain":"planitroi.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/planitroi","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Youngsville, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":86000,"max_usd":201000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":13135},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T21:13:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T14:46:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Stop managing projects, and start transforming a business. \nMost project managers spend their careers moving tasks through someone else’s system. This one builds the system.\nAt PlanITROI, you get a seat at the table and a direct line to executive leadership. Your ideas don’t sit in a slide deck. They show up on the floor next week and in the financials next quarter.\nWe’re building the world’s greatest repair and refurbishment facility in Youngsville, North Carolina. Not the biggest. The best run. A facility where technology drives productivity and every device recovers its highest value through reuse-as-intended-use. We’re redesigning repair lines, deploying AI visual identification, and piloting robotics. You’ll lead the projects that make it real. For more than 25 years, PlanITROI has recovered value from retired IT devices through reuse, repair, refurbishment, and IT lifecycle services. We’re founder-led, so decisions happen fast, and you see your impact up close. \nYou’ll lead the projects that make it real!\nWe’re seeking an A-Player who walks into complexity and walks out with clarity, someone who would rather build what’s next than maintain the status quo. \nThe Center of Excellence Projects \nYou will drive the execution of priority Center of Excellence (COE) projects from approved scope through completion, on time and on budget. You bring the right experts together to build the plan, own the coordination, visibility, follow-through, and escalation that keep delivery moving. The functional and technical owners remain responsible for the solutions and their deliverables. \nYour first wins are already mapped out \nLaptop Repair Area\nLead the redesign and expansion of the laptop repair area, working with operations and facilities teams to approve the plan and set milestones that keep daily production running during the buildout.\nAI Visual Identification System\nLead the pilot of our AI Visual Identification System at the Receiving (ROE) dock, prove it works, and then roll it out across the facility. You’ll coordinate the IS, technical, and operations teams to launch the pilot, validate the results, and evaluate performance. Once rollout is approved, you’ll own the milestones and keep the deployment on schedule.\nThe Warehouse Layout\nDrive cross-functional planning, decisions, and execution of an optimized material-flow design from receiving to shipping. \nThe force that connects everyone \nYou connect the on-site Operations team, off-site SG&A teams (IS, IT, and Purchasing), and outside vendors around clear commitments. When the work stalls, you identify the accountable owner, build a recovery plan, and escalate decisions early. \nThe projects you will lead \nEBITDA impact guides portfolio priorities, from repair operations to AI, robotics, and automation. You keep financial assumptions and the benefits visible while functional owners remain accountable for sustained operating results. \nWhere you will start \nRepair Area Expansion & Redesign: Bring together operations and engineering experts to scope, approve, and execute repair-floor improvements, including workstations and battery replacement lines, while production continues. \nRepair Ramp & Productivity: Drive the plan, owners, milestones, and reporting for operational initiatives intended to increase repairs per technician, reduce rework, improve quality, and increase sellable finished goods. \nParts Management & Automation: Drive Purchasing, Operations, and IS owners to implement approved improvements to OEM part-number accuracy, purchasing automation, inventory organization, and parts availability. \nAI Visual Identification System: Manage the cross-functional delivery of the ROE pilot, with technical owners accountable for equipment identification, serial-number capture, cosmetic grading, and routing; coordinate any approved expansion. \nWarehouse Layout & Material Flow: Coordinate Operations and engineering owners to evaluate, approve, and implement material-flow optimization from receiving through ROE, WIP, repair, finished goods, and outbound shipping. \n Humanoid Robots & Physical AI: Coordinate a controlled, technically led pilot evaluating Tesla Optimus, NEO, or other options for material handling, sorting, loading, and unloading; track safety, reliability, costs, milestones, and go/no-go decisions. (This is a future pilot, not a deployed capability.) \nWhat’snext \n Data Integrity & PlanITVision (WMS) Automation: Drive visibility, cross-functional milestones, and accountability for master-data improvements, RFID and asset-tracking initiatives, and real-time inventory visibility; IS and process owners define and implement technical solutions. \nAI-Powered Repair Training: Video and AI-assisted training that gets technicians productive faster on battery, keyboard, screen, and other repairs. \nAutomated Inspection & Quality Control: Cameras and AI replace manual inspection steps and sharpen grading accuracy. \nFinished Goods & Shipping Automation: Testing, packaging, kitting, and fulfillment with less labor and fewer errors. \nCOE Workforce & Leadership Development: Track milestones and accountable leaders for approved skills-based training and workforce accountability initiatives. \nRepair Training & Technician Recruitment: Coordinate HR and Operations owners to implement agreed repair-training and technician-recruitment initiatives, including skill challenges, certification levels, and scalable training. \nAI & Robotics Research with NC State University: Coordinate project scope, owners, milestones, and deliverables with NC State industrial engineering students and PlanITROI technical sponsors on workstation design, efficiency, and robotics feasibility. \nCOE Project Management & Accountability: Maintain one project management system with approved budgets, milestones, owners, dependencies, issue logs, and weekly reviews across the prioritized portfolio. \nWhat you will own \nThe plan: You facilitate scope, deliverables, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria with the relevant functional experts, and obtain leadership approval before execution. \nThe budget: You maintain approved budgets, flag variances and risks, and coordinate with Finance and project sponsors to track the business case and verified benefits. \nThe people: Coordinate and drive COE Operations, IS, IT, Purchasing, and NC State owners around explicit commitments, mostly without direct authority. Follow up, challenge delays, and escalate unresolved ownership or resource conflicts. \nThe vendors: Onboard and run every new vendor, from CTL to camera, AI software, and robotics suppliers, with clear targets and unit-level reporting. \nThe problems: Detect blockers and dependencies early, assign resolution owners, track corrective actions, and escalate decisions before they become missed commitments. \nThe floor: Spend time in the repair area and warehouse validating actual progress against the plan, removing coordination barriers, and confirming that operational owners can implement improvements without disrupting output. \nThe dashboard: Maintain one shared, accurate view of status, accountable owners, milestones, spend, benefits, dependencies, risks, decisions needed, recovery plans, and completed deliverables. \nThe weekly reporting: Report what finished, what is late, what is over budget, what is blocked, who owns recovery, which leadership decisions are needed, and what is due next week. \nHow success is measured \nProject value matters.You prioritize and report the EBITDA impact of approved initiatives, but your own performance is measured by predictable execution, milestone delivery, budget discipline, visibility, and issue resolution. Each project begins with an owner-approved business case and closes with formal acceptance and a benefits handoff to the functional owner. \nHere’swhat winning looks like \nProjects finished on time, on budget, and signed off by the owner \nOperational owners tracking intended gains in repairs per technician, sellable finished goods, and reduced rework \nPurchasing and Operations owners tracking improvements in shortages and ordering accuracy \nEvery project deliverable with a named accountable owner, due date, and clear acceptance criteria \nRisks and missed commitments surfaced early, with agreed recovery actions and no need for repeated executive chasing \nYour first 90 days \nDay 30: Understand the COE workflows and stakeholders, document all active projects in a prioritized portfolio and dashboard, clarify owners and decisions, and align the repair-area project plan with Operations. \nDay 60: Demonstrate disciplined execution and escalation on priority repair- area milestones and coordinate an approved ROE Visual Identification pilot plan and budget. \nDay 90: Present documented completion or progress against approved repair-area milestones, coordinate the Visual ID pilot against technical acceptance criteria, obtain a decision on the warehouse layout proposal, and demonstrate a repeatable portfolio reporting and accountability process. \nFinal targets depend on approved scope, budget, and resources. \nHow you work \nYou own it: You are accountable for execution discipline from plan through closeout. When work slips, you understand the cause, engage the responsible owner, and drive a recovery decision. \nYou are proactive: You proactively bring leadership clear status, options, tradeoffs, and recommended decisions rather than waiting for someone to chase the work. \nYou find a way: The vendor, the part, the data, the person. You identify what’s needed, assign the right owner, and follow through until the situation is resolved. \nYou decide: Act quickly within your delegated authority, and secure timely approval for technical, financial, or operational decisions that belong to the responsible experts or executives. \nYou don’t stop: Track commitments to completion, address obstacles with the right owners, and escalate issues early when plans need to change. \nYou lead the experts: IT, IS, Operations, AI, and robotics specialists own technical solutions. You align their commitments, timelines, dependencies, and handoffs without needing to be the technical expert. \nWho we are looking for \nYou have delivered real operational projects, with schedules, budgets, people, and measured results you can show us. \nAn industrial engineer who’s ready to own a full portfolio, today you might be a Manufacturing Project Manager, an Operational Project Manager, or a Capital Projects Manager. You are known for bringing clarity, urgency, and accountability to complex cross-functional work and projects.\nWhat you bring \n5+ years leading operational, manufacturing facility, or process-improvement projects from start to finish \nExperience in electronics repair or refurbishment, manufacturing, warehousing, or reverse logistics \nA Lean Six Sigma, industrial engineering, or PMP background \nExperience coordinating facility-layout, workstation, or material-flow projects with operational and technical subject matter experts \nExperience managing outside vendors and contractors to targets and contracts \nCommand of schedules, budgets, and project tracking tools and technology \nPractical use of AI and automation tools to improve project planning, reporting, coordination, and follow-through \nThe confidence to hold people accountable without direct authority \nA record of driving deliverables from technical experts (IT, IS, AI, robotics) without assuming ownership of their technical designs \nComfort on a production floor and in a working operational facility \nExposure to computer vision, RFID, automation, or robotics projects (helpful, not required) \nExperience working with university research programs (nice to have)\nReady to build it?\nThis role isn’t about keeping projects on track in someone else’s system. It’s about building the best-run repair and refurbishment facility in the industry and seeing your work show up on the floor and in the results. 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