Manufacturing & Supply Chain Program Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

Vacation time and paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Harris in Minnesota is seeking a Manufacturing Program Manager to coordinate and track initiatives that scale manufacturing and supply chain capabilities. The role acts as a central portfolio management resource, ensuring visibility, accountability, and progress across multiple workstreams, including facility startups and process improvements.

You will work with business development, estimating, engineering, purchasing, and operations to convert opportunities into actionable production plans,

Qualifications

• Experience managing cross-functional programs, projects, or operational initiatives.
• Strong project management discipline, including schedules, milestones, action tracking, risk management, and executive reporting.

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 readiness workstreams.
• Develop/manage integrated project plans, milestones, activities, risks, and executive summaries.
• Provide leadership with visibility into status, dependencies, risks, decisions needed, and accountability gaps.
• Help ensure teams are aligned on priorities, timelines, owners, and next steps.
• Coordinate 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 launch requirements.
• Coordinate with leadership, plant managers, and other stakeholders to maintain progress.
• Support production readiness by coordinating the transition from opportunity development to manufacturing execution.
• Facilitate recurring coordination meetings across manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, estimating, business development, and operations.
• Hold teams accountable to actions, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identify interdependencies across workstreams and resolve conflicts.
• Develop clear reporting for initiative status, milestones, risks, blockers, and upcoming decisions.
• Support dashboard development and data visibility with BI teams.
• Communicate progress in leadership-ready format.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Reporting dashboards

Job description

Harris in Minnesota is seeking a Manufacturing Program Manager to coordinate and track initiatives that scale manufacturing and supply chain capabilities. The role acts as a central portfolio management resource, ensuring visibility, accountability, and progress across multiple workstreams, including facility startups and process improvements.

You will work with business development, estimating, engineering, purchasing, and operations to convert opportunities into actionable production plans,