Manufacturing Programs Lead: Scale & Readiness

1 Harris St Paul, Inc.; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401K with company match

Vacation time

Sick time

Paid holidays

Paid Parental leave

Short-Term Incentive Plan

Job summary

Harris is seeking a Manufacturing Project Manager to coordinate and track initiatives that scale manufacturing and supply chain capabilities. You will serve as the central portfolio management resource, ensuring visibility, accountability, and progress across multiple workstreams from facility startups to fabrication estimating.

This role does not own the technical solution or operations but ensures the right work is planned, tracked, and completed, bridging business development, estimating,

Qualifications

• Experience managing cross-functional programs, projects, or operational initiatives.
• Strong project management discipline, including schedules, milestones, action tracking, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Ability to coordinate across business development, operations, and leadership teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex moving parts into clear status, issues, and decisions.
• Comfortable working in an environment where processes, systems, and roles are evolving.
• Ability to influence, coordinate, and drive execution across multiple functions without direct authority.
• Proficiency with project management tools, dashboards, spreadsheets, and reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic initiatives into actionable plans with defined owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility across manufacturing and supply chain initiatives, including facility setup, process improvement, systems, and operational readiness workstreams.
• Develop/manage integrated project plans, milestones, activities, risks, and executive summaries.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into status, dependencies, risks, decisions needed, and accountability gaps.
• Help ensure teams are aligned on priorities, timelines, owners, and next steps.
• Support coordination of manufacturing facility initiatives, including greenfield setup, plant modifications, equipment planning, and fulfillment center development.
• Track cross-functional workstreams related to facility readiness, including layout, equipment, staffing, procurement, systems, and operational launch requirements.
• Coordinate with manufacturing leadership, plant managers, industrial engineering, purchasing, facilities, and other stakeholders to maintain progress.
• Facilitate recurring coordination meetings across manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, estimating, business development, and operations.
• Hold teams accountable to committed actions, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identify interdependencies across workstreams and help resolve or elevate conflicts.
• Develop clear reporting for initiative status, milestones, risks, blockers, and upcoming decisions.
• Support dashboard development and data visibility efforts in partnership with BI teams.
• Communicate progress in a concise, leadership-ready format.
• This role works closely with: Division and Business Unit Leadership, Manufacturing Business Development & Estimating, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Operations, Construction & Service/Building Automation Operations, where applicable, Industrial Engineering & Product Engineering, Facilities / Real Estate, Technology and Data teams.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Communication

Influence without authority

Scheduling & milestones

Tools

Project management tools

Dashboards

Spreadsheets

Reporting systems

Job description

Harris is seeking a Manufacturing Project Manager to coordinate and track initiatives that scale manufacturing and supply chain capabilities. You will serve as the central portfolio management resource, ensuring visibility, accountability, and progress across multiple workstreams from facility startups to fabrication estimating.

This role does not own the technical solution or operations but ensures the right work is planned, tracked, and completed, bridging business development, estimating,