Manufacturing Project Manager

When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.

In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Systems Integration, Injury Prevention and Systems Engineering. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

Sandalwood’s people are its greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.

The Manufacturing Project Manager will join a growing team of professionals helping our customers reduce their work-related risk to quality, productivity and employee health.

Responsibilities will include oversight and proactively ensure the successful implementation of engineering projects, particularly within technical or manufacturing environments. This includes coordinating diverse teams of stakeholders, necessitating the ability to organize, manage, control, and direct activities for projects effectively. The role involves leading status meetings with the project team, maintaining comprehensive project documentation such as project timelines, dashboards, and meeting minutes. Furthermore, the Project Manager will be expected to provide detailed status reports and present project progress to management as applicable. This person will bridge the gap between technical teams and project execution, using their engineering insight to foresee potential challenges and make informed decisions regarding resource allocation and risk mitigation. This role is ideal for someone who has a strong project coordination foundation, understands how to keep technical teams organized, and is comfortable working with engineers, software teams, manufacturing stakeholders, and customer-facing project teams.

Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

• 2+ years of experience in project management, project coordination, manufacturing, engineering, IT, software, or a related technical environment.
• Customer-facing project experience.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies, such as: scope management, schedule development & integration, risk management, budget tracking, resource management status & control planning, issue & action item management
• Technical Fluency & Integration experience
• Experience with the integration of complex systems, such as plant floor systems, or other relevant technical integrations, is highly desirable. Technical understanding allows them to grasp project complexities and communicate effectively with engineering teams and translating project details into clear updates for stakeholders.
• The ability to lead diverse teams, set clear objectives, adjust strategies, and guide projects to successful completion in a dynamic environment.
• Willingness to learn technical concepts related to manufacturing and IT systems and understand of how engineering projects align with broader business objectives
• Strong sense of drive, initiative, work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Support continuous improvement of project processes, templates, and communication practices.
• Good sense of judgement, analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, well-organized, detail oriented team player
• Experience with Agile project practices, JIRA, IT projects, software launches, or manufacturing systems is a strong plus.

Requirements

• 2+ experience managing technical 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 full time daily onsite PM services at our client’s facility in Redford, MI

Candidates for this role with Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application, without sponsorship. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 734-744-9705.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Profit Sharing
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Support to grow in multiple areas