Manufacturing Project Manager - Lean & Automation Lead

Wayne Fueling Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Dover Fueling Solutions in Austin, TX is seeking a Manufacturing Project Manager to lead productivity and cost-reduction projects within the manufacturing organization. You will coordinate changes to existing products to ensure production readiness with minimal disruption to production.

Responsibilities span from business case development through execution and validation, working closely with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Five or more years of manufacturing operations, manufacturing engineering, or project management.
• Proven success delivering cross-functional productivity and cost-reduction projects with measurable results.
• Experience implementing changes to existing products in a manufacturing environment.
• Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, engineering change control, and production readiness.
• Ability to develop business cases, evaluate ROI, and track budgets and savings.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and lead teams without direct reporting authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional productivity and cost-reduction projects to improve labor productivity, capacity, throughput, quality, and costs.
• Coordinate engineering change activities and transition plans for new/existing products to ensure production readiness.
• Define scope, schedule, budgets, responsibilities, and success criteria; manage risks and communicate status to leadership.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Cross-functional teamwork

Project management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, operations management

Tools

Oracle

ERP

PLM

Job description

Dover Fueling Solutions in Austin, TX is seeking a Manufacturing Project Manager to lead productivity and cost-reduction projects within the manufacturing organization. You will coordinate changes to existing products to ensure production readiness with minimal disruption to production.

Responsibilities span from business case development through execution and validation, working closely with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance.