Project Manager

TekWissen LLC; Georgetown (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

TekWissen Group is seeking a Project Manager for a 12-month onsite assignment in Georgetown, KY.

The role connects Quality, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, database, data, finance, Agile delivery, and manufacturing stakeholders to drive major initiatives such as IC S+, QDMS, North American Hoshin activities, Oracle-to-Postgres transition, system releases, infrastructure readiness, and future quality-system development.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Program and project coordination
• Cross-functional leadership
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Technical and business communication
• Planning and prioritization
• Risk and impediment management
• Meeting facilitation
• Executive presentation
• Documentation discipline
• Change and release coordination
• Continuous improvement
• Adaptability and problem solving

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Executive communication

Meeting facilitation

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Microsoft 365 apps

Jira epics

Documentation

Multitasking across teams

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Teams

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Power Apps

Job description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a recognized prominent global enterprise in the automotive sector, listed among the top 50 companies in the Global Fortune rankings. As a leading player in the global automotive industry, our client manufactures vehicles in 27 countries and effectively markets them across over 170 countries and regions worldwide.

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Georgetown, KY 40324

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Shift Timings: Mon - Fri (08:00 am to 05:00 pm )

Job Description:

• The role serves as a central connection point among Quality, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, database, data, finance, communications, Agile delivery, and manufacturing-site stakeholders.
• The position supports major initiatives including IC S+, QDMS, North American Hoshin activities, Oracle-to-Postgres transition, system releases, infrastructure readiness, and future quality-system development.
• It maintains integrated program plans, coordinates deployment and change-control activities, raises and resolves impediments, supports business planning and budgeting, and communicates program status to working teams and leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program and project coordination
• Cross-functional leadership
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Technical and business communication
• Planning and prioritization
• Risk and impediment management
• Meeting facilitation
• Executive presentation
• Documentation discipline
• Change and release coordination
• Continuous improvement
• Adaptability and problem solving

Measures of Success

• Accurate, timely, and transparent program reporting.
• Completion of planned deliverables, dependencies, and change-control activities.
• Effective coordination of stage and production deployments.
• Timely identification and escalation of risks and impediments.
• Strong alignment among Quality, technical teams, manufacturing companies, and leadership.
• Current and reliable program documentation.
• Successful preparation of business cases, budget inputs, governance reviews, and executive updates.
• Improved standardization and efficiency across regional Quality-system activities.

Requirements:

Qualifications: (Highlight Top 3-5 skills)

Education/Experience:

• 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

• 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.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity