Senior TOM & Manufacturing Transformation Lead

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Project Manager to lead the implementation of a new Target Operating Model (TOM) through the consolidation and integration of manufacturing operations across our U.S. footprint.

This role will have primary responsibility for coordinating the transition of manufacturing operations from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Rochester, New York, ensuring the transformation is executed safely, effectively, and in alignment with business objectives.

This highly visible and complex initiative requires a leader with demonstrated experience in manufacturing transformation, operational and facility consolidation, production transitions, organizational change, and systems integration.

The Senior Project Manager will lead and coordinate cross-functional teams across Operations, Engineering, HR, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, HSE, and other functions to deliver a future-ready manufacturing footprint while maintaining business continuity, customer commitments, and operational performance throughout the transition.

The successful candidate will bring strong project governance, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage multiple interconnected work streams in a dynamic and highly confidential environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Target Operating Model (TOM) Implementation: Lead the design, planning, and execution of the future-state manufacturing Target Operating Model (TOM), translating strategic objectives into clearly defined work streams, milestones, ownership, and deliverables. Identify, define, and implement new or enhanced processes where required to support the future-state operating model, operational effectiveness, scalability, and long-term business requirements.
• Manufacturing Operations Consolidation: Lead and coordinate the transition and integration of manufacturing operations from Milwaukee to Rochester, including facility and layout optimization, production line and equipment relocation, process alignment, operational readiness, and knowledge-transfer activities while maintaining business continuity and customer commitments throughout the transition.
• HR and Organizational Change Management: Partner with HR and business leadership to support the people and organizational aspects of the transformation, including new organizational structures, role mapping, communications, training, knowledge transfer, and engagement and change-adoption strategies, ensuring people-related activities and dependencies are effectively integrated into the overall project plan.
• Systems and Technology Enablement: Partner with IT, business systems, and functional teams to coordinate technology requirements associated with the operational transition, including ERP, manufacturing systems, infrastructure, data migration, and related digital transformation initiatives, ensuring systems dependencies are integrated into the overall transition plan and support business continuity.
• Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the central point of coordination for the transformation, driving alignment across senior leadership, site leadership, functional teams, project work streams, and external partners while establishing clear governance, decision-making, escalation, and communication processes.
• Vendor and Partner Management: Manage relationships with external architects, engineers, equipment suppliers, contractors, consultants, and other partners supporting the transformation, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timelines, specifications, safety requirements, and confidentiality standards.
• Financial and Timeline Governance: Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, budget, resource requirements, dependencies, and master schedule, partnering with Finance and functional leaders to monitor expenditures, forecasts, commitments, scope changes, and overall project performance.
• Risk, Quality, Safety and Compliance Management: Proactively identify, assess, and manage operational, organizational, technology, supply chain, financial, safety, quality, and regulatory risks, establishing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans and ensuring project deliverables meet applicable standards and requirements.
• Reporting and Performance Tracking: Develop and maintain project dashboards, KPI tracking, executive reporting, milestone reviews, and risk reporting, providing regular, accurate, and confidential updates to leadership on project progress, financial performance, key decisions, dependencies, risks, and…