Senior Manufacturing Program Manager

Sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 5500+ team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means. Our teams are our most valuable ingredient - the heart of our company, the face of our brand, and what truly makes the sweetgreen experience special and unique.

Sweetgreen’s automation team is building cutting edge automation equipment to install into new and existing restaurants. We are seeking a manufacturing focused program manager to help us scale our technology rapidly and help build out our manufacturing function. You will be working closely with our contract manufacturer and our mechanical and electrical engineering teams to ensure the delivery of our equipment on time and at the highest levels of quality. You’ll be responsible for managing timelines, supply chain, and critical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage vendor relationships and supply chain challenges, including line-by-line BOM management and accountability
• Become intimately familiar with our equipment and electrical control panels and manage design changes, change orders and version control
• Maintain critical documentation and specifications around all aspects of the build including assembly, QC and procurement
• Assist with the development of project plans and budget including capital equipment, cost management strategies, and resource allocation
• Identify the most impactful opportunities and initiatives to reduce cost, improve efficiency and quality
• Establish processes across engineering and manufacturing to ensure proper knowledge transfer and accurate and complete documentation
• Assist with urgent on-the-floor problem solving, working closely with our engineering team and our CM
• Work closely with Sweetgreen’s technical leadership to define detailed plans and timelines oriented with business goals for manufacturing restaurant automation equipment.
• Keep our project management tools updated with the latest information, milestones and timelines
• Work closely with Sweetgreen’s contract manufacturing partner to execute against Sweetgreen’s manufacturing plans.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience working in the industrial automation space in an engineering or program management role
• Experience managing a full BOM and negotiating with suppliers
• Highly adept at using PM tools such as ClickUp or Jira and highly skilled at spreadsheet and BOM management
• An excellent communicator and capable of working with uncertainty and tight deadlines
• Personable and possess excellent relationship management skills
• Very comfortable and familiar with large automation component vendors such as Festo, Keyence, Banner, B&R etc.
• Meticulous documentation skills and attention to detail in all your work
• At least 2 years of experience as a program manager working for or closely with a contract manufacturer in the industrial automation space
• Possesses a deep understanding of part-level mechanical drawings and assembly drawings, and be capable of creating and improving documentation such as assembly work instructions.
• Confident working at the NPI stage and capable of building processes and structure where needed
• Comfortable reading electrical control panel schematics and have a general understanding of control panel architecture

This is an in-person role out of our office in Charlestown, MA with up to 25% travel to our CM’s facilities.

What You’ll Get

• A collaborative family of people who live our core values and have your back
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• Complimentary sweetgreen
• Competitive pay + bonus plan based on performance
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• Health, dental + vision insurance
• Free sweetgreen swag
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Flexible PTO, because we respect the need for work/life harmony
• 401k

About Sweetgreen

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about the E-Verify program, please click here.

Salary Range For This Role

Starting salary range based on experience

$115,000—$140,000 USD

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about the E-Verify program, please click here.