Manufacturing Project Manager

Kaygen, Inc.; Georgetown (KY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaygen, Inc. is seeking a program-management professional to coordinate complex, cross-functional initiatives and technology-enabled business projects.

You will lead planning, status reporting, issue and dependency management, and ensure effective stakeholder coordination across technical and business teams. You will organize and facilitate meetings with technical teams and leadership, and communicate clearly in written, verbal, and executive forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programs or technology-enabled business initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, status reporting, issue management, dependency management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to organize and facilitate meetings involving technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power Apps, and related Microsoft 365 apps.
• Experience developing and maintaining Jira epics, project records, dashboards, or equivalent PM tools.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities across geographically distributed organizations.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate documentation, timelines, and status information.
• Experience supporting manufacturing Quality systems or regional technology implementations.
• Familiarity with Agile planning, PI planning, Scrum teams, and quarterly business planning.
• Understanding of database, server, virtual-machine, Oracle, Postgres, testing, and production-deployment concepts.
• Experience with change-control processes, Requests for Change, and Change Advisory Boards.
• Familiarity with Lean, Hoshin Kanri, Obeya, Yokoten, continuous improvement, or similar operating practices.
• Experience supporting budget planning, business cases, value realization, and capacity discussions.

Skills

Cross-functional programs

Project planning

Status reporting

Issue management

Dependency management

Stakeholder coordination

Meeting facilitation

Written communication

Verbal communication

Presentation skills

Executive communication

MS Teams

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Power Apps

Microsoft 365

Jira epics

Dashboards

PM tools

Multitasking across distributed teams

Documentation

Timelines

Status tracking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira epics

Dashboards

Project records

PM tools

Job description

• Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional programs or technology-enabled business initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, status reporting, issue management, dependency management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and facilitate meetings involving technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power Apps, and related Microsoft 365 applications.
• Experience developing and maintaining Jira epics, project records, dashboards, or equivalent program-management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities across geographically distributed organizations.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate documentation, timelines, and status information.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree required

Added bonus:

• Experience supporting manufacturing Quality systems or regional technology implementations.
• Familiarity with Agile planning, PI planning, Scrum teams, and quarterly business planning.
• Understanding of database, server, virtual-machine, Oracle, Postgres, testing, and production-deployment concepts.
• Experience with change-control processes, Requests for Change, and Change Advisory Boards.
• Familiarity with Lean, Hoshin Kanri, Obeya, Yokoten, continuous improvement, or similar operating practices.
• Experience supporting budget planning, business cases, value realization, and capacity discussions.