Sr Project Manager

MKS Instruments

About The Position

As a Senior Project Manager at MKS Instruments, you will partner with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Finance, and external implementation partners. The role focuses primarily on replacing the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform and managing the program from planning through deployment. This includes business-process alignment, solution delivery, data migration, integrations, organizational readiness, and adoption, with clear governance across business units and regions. The role reports to the Sr IT Program Manager. The position leads a matrixed team without anticipated direct reports and is responsible for program budget planning, forecasting, actuals tracking, vendor spend oversight, and financial variance reporting within the approved investment. Work is primarily performed in an office or remote-office environment, with periodic visits to manufacturing and engineering sites. Domestic and international travel may be required, as may occasional work outside standard business hours to support global teams, critical deployments, cutover activities, and issue resolution. Applicants for certain positions involving controlled goods and technologies subject to ITAR or EAR may need to be U.S. persons. MKS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer, encourages diverse candidates, conducts background checks and drug screens in accordance with applicable law and company policies, and generally hires candidates who reside in states where it is registered to do business. MKS provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application or interview process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 5 years of progressive experience managing complex or cross-functional projects.
Demonstrated success leading large, complex, cross-functional enterprise technology or business-transformation programs from initiation through deployment and stabilization.
Experience delivering PLM, product-development, engineering, quality, or master-data solutions in a global manufacturing environment.
Strong command of project and program management disciplines, including integrated planning, financial management, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, and executive reporting.
Experience managing system integrators, software vendors, contracts, statements of work, milestones, and delivery performance.
Ability to translate business objectives and technical constraints into clear plans, decisions, actions, and leadership communications.
Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
Working knowledge of data migration, enterprise integrations, testing, validation, cutover, change management, and deployment-readiness practices.
Ability to perform work at a computer and participate in virtual or in-person meetings for extended periods.
Ability to communicate effectively through written, verbal, and presentation-based channels.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

PMP or CAPM certification is preferred.
Direct experience implementing or replacing an enterprise PLM platform, such as Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Oracle Agile PLM, or a comparable solution.
Experience integrating PLM with ERP, MES, CAD, quality, document-management, and reporting platforms.
PMP, PgMP, Agile, or comparable certification.
Experience in a regulated, high-technology, semiconductor, industrial, or advanced-manufacturing environment.
Experience leading global teams across multiple business units, regions, and time zones.
Familiarity with product data governance, bills of material, engineering change management, document control, and product compliance.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the Next Generation PLM replacement, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, quality, and benefits realization.
Establish program governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, and executive communications to enable timely, fact-based decisions.
Partner with business and technology leaders to align global product-development and lifecycle-management processes, define requirements, manage scope, and maintain accountability for decisions and deliverables.
Coordinate solution design, configuration, testing, data cleansing and migration, system integrations, validation, cutover, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization across multiple workstreams.
Manage the system integrator and other vendors, including deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, financial performance, issue resolution, and adherence to MKS standards.
Drive organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness assessments, and adoption planning for impacted users and functions.
Identify and proactively resolve cross-functional risks, resource constraints, competing priorities, and dependencies with ERP, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and downstream enterprise systems.
Maintain complete and audit-ready program documentation, including plans, requirements, decisions, risks, issues, actions, test evidence, deployment readiness, and lessons learned.
Lead a matrixed team of business process owners, functional leads, technical resources, site representatives, vendors, and implementation partners.
Plan and forecast the program budget, track actuals, oversee vendor spend, and report financial variances within the approved investment.