Manufacturing Project Manager
Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Work with multiple customers as a consultant and trusted partner in Injury Prevention, Systems Engineering & Systems Integration
- Oversee and proactively ensure successful implementation of engineering projects in technical/manufacturing environments
- Coordinate diverse teams of stakeholders; organize, manage, control, and direct project activities
- Lead status meetings with project teams
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation including project timelines, dashboards, and meeting minutes
- Provide detailed status reports and present project progress to management as applicable
- Bridge the gap between technical teams and project execution using engineering insight to foresee challenges
- Make informed decisions regarding resource allocation and risk mitigation
- Guide customers to innovate and solve operational struggles using subject matter expertise
Requirements
- 2+ experience managing system integration projects
- Experience in manufacturing environments
- Bachelor's degree in Management, Engineering or equivalent experience
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Ability to provide fulltime daily onsite PM services at our client’s facility in Redford, MI
- Background in project management
- Technical fluency and system integration experience (plant floor systems or similar)
- Working knowledge of project management methodologies: scope management, schedule development & integration, risk management, status & control planning, issue & action item management
- Leadership abilities to lead diverse teams and set clear objectives
- Understanding of engineering projects' alignment with business objectives (business acumen)
- Adaptable and flexible with project tailoring
- Experience with both agile and waterfall methodologies
- Strong drive, initiative, work ethic; ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Good judgement, analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; well-organized and detail oriented team player