Manufacturing Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, or a related field.
• Experience managing projects for new product development for manufactured products.
• Five or more years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated schedules, budgets, risk registers, and project reports.
• PMP Certification or equivalent.
• Experience using Microsoft Project or an equivalent project-scheduling application.
• Experience with formal phase-gate, stage-gate, Agile, hybrid, or other product-development governance models.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate across management levels and different disciplines.
• Ability to translate detailed technical, schedule, financial, and operational information into clear recommendations and actionable plans.
• Ability to influence decisions, build alignment, and maintain accountability in a cross-functional matrix organization.
• Ability to identify root causes and implement practical solutions to process, resource, technical, and procedural obstacles.
• Working knowledge of bills of materials, component parts, engineering drawings, and fundamental manufacturing, sourcing, quality, and supply-chain processes.
• Ability to define and implement solutions to problems resulting from processes, procedural issues, resource constraints, or other obstacles.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple cross-functional product-development projects from concept through design, validation, manufacturing integration, and commercial launch.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Lead the resolution of complex project issues and escalate matters when additional authority, resources, or executive direction are required.
• Make or facilitate decisions that support project objectives and adjust plans as needed.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, and alignment across the cross-functional project team.
• Develop and maintain detailed schedules using Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including dependency, critical-path, resource, and schedule-risk analysis.
• Provide clear and timely project updates, recommendations, and escalation summaries to project teams, functional leaders, sponsors, and senior management.
• Mentor Associate Project Leads and support the development of project-management capabilities across the organization.
• Identify, recommend, and implement improvements to project-management standards, tools, templates, governance, and delivery processes.
• Evaluate financial, operational, customer, quality, supply-chain, and strategic implications when developing recommendations and making project decisions.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plans with employer-matching contributions
• Tuition reimbursement
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Volunteer time off