Project Manager - Manufacturing Innovation

Availability: Full time

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 5+ years in project management experience preferred

About the Role

- We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to drive zero waste manufacturing innovations at our customers- manufacturing plants. We are looking for a self-motivated person with a positive "can-do" attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

- As a project manager, you will play a key role in the implementation of our AI projects.

Key Work Responsibilities

- Develop tailor-made change management strategies within the framework of digital transformation projects for Manufacturing Shopfloor.

- Assist project management division to build project management processes & templates.

- Set up detailed project planning and milestone tracking relating to Industry 4.0 implementations.

- Assessment of AI-Readiness of plants covering the topics of Sensors, PLCs, Traceability, Edge Devices, and Cloud Connectivity.

- Collaborate with stakeholders from customer plants to develop project scope, deliverables, goals, blockers, resources needed, etc.

- Conduct interviews and workshops as part of change management for the adoption of our AI products at customers- plants.

- Lead customer meetings, manage expectations and build close relationships with customers to acquire their requirements.

- Manage interface among customers, external vendors, sales, product, and tech team to deliver projects successfully.

- Ensure continuous learning with respect to manufacturing innovation trends.

Your Background

- Master's or bachelor's Degree in the engineering field of mechanical engineering, production engineering, industrial engineering or equivalent

- Strong project management skills from initiation to closure (scoping, structuring, work planning, status reporting tools, mgmt. updates)

- Experience in Industry 4.0 projects especially in the shopfloor digitalization, IIoT implementation, automation for manufacturing is essential.

- You are enthusiastic about digitization in production, e.g. for Industry 4.0, IIoT, MES, KI, predictive maintenance, and prescriptive quality use cases.

- Excellent presentation and communication (verbal and written in English and German) skills

- Ability to cope with ambiguity, especially in the project context

- Analytical mindset, innovative thinker, and collaborator

- Ability to mediate and bring cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus

- High degree of self-management and drive

- Strong customer orientation, ability to work in a team, flexibility, and willingness to travel are required. Preferred Skills

- Experience in the manufacturing or metal processing industry is a plus.

We Offer

- Culture of innovation, creativity, learning, and even failure, we believe in bringing the best in you.

- Progressive leave policy for effective work-life balance.

- Get mentored by highly qualified internal resource groups and opportunity to avail industry-driven mentoring program, as we believe in empowering people.

- Multicultural peer groups and supportive workplace policies.