Manufacturing PMO - Cross-Functional Project Manager

Mainz Brady Group; Warsaw (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mainz Brady Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide governance and coordination for multiple complex manufacturing and operational initiatives. This PMO role focuses on schedules, dependencies, milestones, risks, and program health across workstreams.

You will drive proactive risk management, maintain master schedules, and report progress to leadership, without hands-on engineering duties.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of related project management experience.
• Strong experience managing multiple concurrent project plans, schedules, and cross-functional workstreams.
• Experience developing and managing Gantt charts, master schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and project metrics.
• Strong understanding of PMO governance and structured project management methodologies.
• Significant experience within manufacturing operations.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional and inter-site teams without direct authority.
• Strong risk identification, escalation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate project health and complex dependencies clearly to both project teams and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee multiple project plans and workstreams simultaneously, ensuring alignment with program objectives.
• Maintain a holistic view across Gantt charts, schedules, milestones, and dependencies, including plans managed by others.
• Develop and maintain master project plans and integrated schedules.
• Monitor progress to identify on track, behind, or downstream dependencies.
• Proactively identify and elevate risks, issues, roadblocks, scope changes, and schedule conflicts.
• Drive resolution of blockers by coordinating with project owners and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure adherence to PMO governance, methodologies, processes, and reporting standards.
• Track milestones, metrics, budgets, resources, and delivery performance.
• Provide dashboards, status reporting, and project health updates to PMO and leadership.
• Coordinate activities across Operations, Quality, Finance, IT, HR, Engineering, and other functions.
• Support change management and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help establish and improve project management best practices, tools, and processes.

Skills

Project management

Gantt charts

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

MS Office

PMO governance

Dashboards & reporting

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Psychology

MBA preferred

Tools

PM software

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Mainz Brady Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide governance and coordination for multiple complex manufacturing and operational initiatives. This PMO role focuses on schedules, dependencies, milestones, risks, and program health across workstreams.

You will drive proactive risk management, maintain master schedules, and report progress to leadership, without hands-on engineering duties.