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Job Description
About the Role Client is seeking two experienced Project Managers to help deliver a portfolio of manufacturing technology and performance analytics capabilities. The portfolio includes solutions such as Anomaly Detection, Golden Batch, Cycle Time, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). In this role, you ll lead initiatives from planning through deployment and ongoing support including new implementations, enhancements, upgrades, patches, and defect resolution. You ll bring business and technical teams together, establish clear plans and priorities, and help ensure delivery stays aligned with agreed scope, schedule, financials, and business needs. Depending on the initiative, you ll facilitate Agile/Scrum practices and support Waterfall governance. What You ll Do
- Manage multiple concurrent technology initiatives across the manufacturing analytics portfolio.
- Own project scope, schedules, milestones, resources, financials, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, RAID logs, release plans, status reports, and governance materials.
- Manage JIRA backlogs and track priorities, deliverables, dependencies, and releases.
- Facilitate Agile/Scrum activities, including sprint planning, backlog reviews, stand-ups, retrospectives, and release planning.
- Support Waterfall governance and delivery processes where appropriate.
- Coordinate business, product, analytics, data, engineering, infrastructure, and other technical teams.
- Lead delivery of new deployments, enhancements, patches, upgrades, and defect resolution.
- Coordinate the data, architecture, and integration work needed to enable deployments.
- Identify and escalate risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies early.
- Communicate project progress, financials, risks, decisions, and delivery impacts clearly to stakeholders and leaders.
- 5 7 years of technology project management experience.
- Strong proficiency with JIRA.
- Experience managing projects using Agile/Scrum and Waterfall delivery approaches.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across business and technical teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent initiatives, priorities, and dependencies while driving accountability.
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with manufacturing technology, analytics, data, or integration projects.
- Experience supporting technology deployments, releases, and ongoing enhancements.
- Familiarity with manufacturing analytics, such as OEE, Cycle Time, Anomaly Detection, or Golden Batch.
- Familiarity with one or more of the following: HighByte, AWS, SFRx, SIMCA, or Ignition.
- Previous Project Managment experience at Client is highly preferred.
- Integrated project plans and milestone tracking.
- JIRA backlog and delivery tracking.
- RAID logs and decision/action tracking.
- Release and deployment plans.
- Financial forecasts and resource tracking.
- Project status and governance reporting.
- Stakeholder and leadership communications.
- Delivery against agreed scope, milestones, and budget.
- Proactive, effective management of risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
- Accurate and timely project and financial reporting.
- Effective JIRA backlog and delivery management.
- Strong cross-functional coordination and stakeholder communication.
EEO: Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.
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