Strategic Technical PM for Plant OT & Infrastructure

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead infrastructure and OT initiatives across manufacturing sites. You will drive project delivery, governance, and technical coordination across multiple workstreams in a Plant/OT environment.

Responsibilities include planning, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and successful cutovers, with bilingual communication in Mandarin and English to support global operations.

Qualifications

• Experience managing projects within Plant/OT, PCS, MOM or MES environments.
• Proven experience delivering infrastructure, OT, or manufacturing technology projects.
• Strong planning, scheduling, resource management, and delivery management skills.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder communications through RAID.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams including infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, engineering, operations, and vendors.
• Experience managing technical dependencies across network, server, cloud, security, and application environments.
• Strong vendor and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience coordinating project cutovers, transitions, and operational handovers.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese and professional proficiency in English for meetings and communications.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, resources, deliverables, and timelines.
• Coordinate daily project activities across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, plant operations, engineering, and vendors.
• Manage risks, RAID items, issues, dependencies, decisions, and actions.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, governance reviews, and communications in Mandarin and English.
• Monitor progress and drive corrective actions for deviations in schedule or scope.
• Manage dependencies across Plant IT/OT, PCS, MOM/MES, network, server, cloud, cybersecurity, and apps.
• Prepare status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, decision papers, and recovery plans.
• Coordinate cutover activities, readiness, and handover to support teams.
• Ensure alignment with governance, cybersecurity, plant safety, and change management processes.
• Track vendor commitments, progress, and blockers; escalate as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure successful execution and delivery.
• Support decision-making with accurate reporting and risk analysis.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

Cross-functional

Mandarin English

RAID management

Vendor mgmt

Change mgmt

Governance reporting

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead infrastructure and OT initiatives across manufacturing sites. You will drive project delivery, governance, and technical coordination across multiple workstreams in a Plant/OT environment.

Responsibilities include planning, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and successful cutovers, with bilingual communication in Mandarin and English to support global operations.