Operational Excellence Project Manager

Circor Careers • Warren, MA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

The ideal candidate combines strong project leadership with practical manufacturing knowledge and is equally comfortable managing an executive-level project portfolio and driving execution on the shop floor. This role involves leading a portfolio of Operational Excellence projects across Lean, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and CNC Programming. The position requires translating business and operational priorities into clearly defined projects with scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes. The candidate will coordinate roles and responsibilities to mitigate redundancy and optimize team productivity, establish project governance, schedules, action registers, risk management, and escalation processes, and manage dependencies and resource conflicts across multiple concurrent projects. Facilitating cross-functional project reviews and communicating status, risks, decisions, and recovery actions to operations and senior leadership is crucial. The role also involves maintaining visibility of the overall project portfolio, ensuring resources remain focused on the highest-value operational priorities, and driving projects from problem definition through implementation, validation, standardization, and sustainment. Establishing measurable financial and operational benefits and tracking results against project commitments are key responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, with 5+ years experience, in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong understanding of machining and manufacturing processes.
• Experience managing projects involving technical resources such as manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, CNC programmers, and production personnel.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively from the shop floor through senior leadership.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly regulated, high-mix/low-volume manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification preferred.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and applicable ASME, NAVSEA, MIL-SPEC, ISO 9001, or similar requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of Operational Excellence projects across Lean, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, and CNC Programming.
• Translate business and operational priorities into clearly defined projects with scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, resource requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate roles & responsibilities to mitigate redundancy and optimize team productivity.
• Establish project governance, schedules, action registers, risk management, and escalation processes.
• Manage dependencies and resource conflicts across multiple concurrent projects.
• Facilitate cross-functional project reviews and communicate status, risks, decisions, and recovery actions to operations and senior leadership.
• Maintain visibility of the overall project portfolio and ensure resources remain focused on the highest-value operational priorities.
• Drive projects from problem definition through implementation, validation, standardization, and sustainment.
• Establish measurable financial and operational benefits and track results against project commitments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level