Project Manager, Change Management

Working Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m

Pay Rate: $50-$60/hr

Domain: Automotive

Employment Type: Contract

Duration:12 months, with the possibility of extension

Final date to receive applications: Open until Filled

The Project Manager will coordinate the planning, governance, implementation, and ongoing support of regional Quality Systems initiatives across North American manufacturing organizations. This role serves as a central point of coordination between Quality, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, database and data teams, Finance, Communications, Agile delivery teams, and manufacturing-site stakeholders.

The position supports major initiatives, including quality management systems, North American strategic planning activities, database transitions, system releases, infrastructure readiness, and future Quality Systems development. The Project Manager will maintain integrated program plans, coordinate deployments and change-control activities, manage risks and impediments, support business planning and budgeting, and communicate program status to project teams and leadership.

• Coordinate program and project planning, execution, governance, and delivery across multiple Quality Systems initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration among technical teams, business stakeholders, manufacturing sites, and leadership.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and program documentation.
• Track project progress, deliverables, risks, issues, and impediments, escalating concerns as needed.
• Coordinate system releases, stage and production deployments, infrastructure readiness, and change-control activities.
• Facilitate meetings with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
• Prepare program status reports, executive presentations, governance reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Support business planning, budgeting, business cases, value realization, and capacity-planning discussions.
• Maintain project records, dashboards, and other program-management tools.
• Support quality-system initiatives, strategic planning activities, database transitions, and technology implementations.
• Promote continuous improvement, standardization, and efficiency across regional Quality Systems activities.
• Manage competing priorities and coordinate work across geographically distributed teams.
• Travel to manufacturing sites as required, including potential international travel.
• Follow manufacturing-site safety requirements, including the use of hard hats, safety glasses, and safety shoes. A safety jacket will be provided.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional programs or technology-enabled business initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, status reporting, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power Apps, and other Microsoft 365 applications.
• Experience maintaining project records, dashboards, or similar project-management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives, priorities, and deadlines across geographically distributed organizations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate documentation and project status information.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting manufacturing Quality Systems or regional technology implementations.
• Familiarity with Agile planning, PI planning, Scrum teams, and quarterly business planning.
• Understanding of databases, servers, virtual machines, Oracle, Postgres, testing, and production-deployment concepts.
• Experience with change-control processes, Requests for Change (RFCs), and Change Advisory Boards (CABs).
• Familiarity with Lean, Hoshin Kanri, Obeya, Yokoten, and other continuous-improvement practices.
• Experience supporting budget planning, business cases, value realization, and resource-capacity discussions.

Medical | Dental | Vision | 401(k)

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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