Project Manager - Digital Manufacturing

Project Manager – Digital Manufacturing

Location: Chennai

Employment Mode: Full Time – Work From Office

Experience: 8+ Years

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to manage end-to-end software development and delivery for clients in the Digital Manufacturing / Manufacturing Technology domain.

IMPORTANT – MANDATORY REQUIREMENT

Manufacturing domain/client experience is mandatory.

Candidates should have proven hands-on experience managing technology projects for manufacturing organizations. Candidates with strong generic IT project management experience but without manufacturing client/domain experience will not be considered.

EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of experience in IT project management / software delivery.

• Proven hands-on experience managing software development projects for manufacturing clients.

• Strong experience managing end-to-end project delivery.

• Experience managing cross-functional technical teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage end-to-end delivery of software projects for manufacturing clients.

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and resource requirements.

• Prepare and maintain project plans and delivery schedules.

• Track project progress against scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

• Coordinate development, QA, UI/UX, DevOps, data, implementation, and other project teams.

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within agreed scope and budget.

• Drive project execution from requirement gathering through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Act as the primary project-level point of contact for clients.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with customer stakeholders.

• Conduct regular project status meetings, reviews, demonstrations, and governance meetings.

• Manage customer expectations and communicate project status, risks, issues, and dependencies clearly.

• Handle escalations and drive timely resolution of customer and project issues.

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams.

• Work closely with Technical Leads, Architects, Business Analysts, Developers, QA, DevOps, and implementation teams.

• Identify project risks, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints and drive mitigation plans.

• Manage scope changes and change requests through appropriate governance.

• Manage projects using Agile/Scrum and other appropriate delivery methodologies.

• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and project tracking.

• Track development, testing, UAT, deployment, and release activities.

• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports and track project KPIs.

• Support presales activities, client discovery, project estimation, resource planning, proposals, and delivery approaches when required.

TECHNICAL & PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

• Strong understanding of SDLC and software development processes.

• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum project delivery.

• Experience managing project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and resources.

• Strong knowledge of Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, or similar project management tools.

• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with project financials, resource utilization, billing, and delivery margins is an advantage.

• PMP / PRINCE2 / Scrum Master / Agile certification preferred.

MANUFACTURING DOMAIN

Experience in one or more of the following areas is preferred:

MES | ERP | Production Management | Quality Management | Maintenance Management | Warehouse Management | Supply Chain | IoT / IIoT | SCADA | Machine Integration | Industry 4.0 | Smart Factory | Manufacturing Analytics | AI/ML for Manufacturing | Digital Manufacturing Platforms

They should be comfortable working with:

Manufacturing Client → Business Requirements → Development Team → Technical Lead → QA → Deployment → Customer UAT → Production

The person should be able to independently manage the client relationship, project governance, delivery team, schedule, risks, scope, and overall project outcome.

Manufacturing experience is a mandatory screening criterion.

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