This role is for one of Zepcruit's clients.
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.
