Agile Project Manager

When you join the Sandalwood team youll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify assess and reduce work-related risks to quality productivity and employee health.

In your day to day activities youll work with multiple customers as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwoods areas of expertise of Systems Integration Injury Prevention and Systems Engineering. Youll help customers innovate solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwoods deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

Sandalwoods people are its greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.

The Technical Project Manager will join a growing team supporting the development pilot implementation and production launch of manufacturing technology products.

Responsibilities will include coordinating multiple technical workstreams across software development engineering manufacturing and customer teams. The Project Manager will maintain project schedules product-development milestones Jira dashboards burndown reporting resource plans financial forecasts and project documentation. They will facilitate sprint planning backlog refinement project reviews and recurring status meetings while proactively following up with workstream leads escalating blocked activities and communicating project progress and risks to stakeholders.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong project coordination foundation who takes initiative enjoys bringing structure to complex technical environments and can communicate effectively with engineers software teams manufacturing stakeholders customers and leadership.

Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

• 2 years of experience in project management project coordination manufacturing engineering IT software or a related technical environment.
• Experience with Agile project practices (running sprints defining user stories etc.) Jira software development IT projects product launches manufacturing systems or stage-gate processes is strongly preferred
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams project schedules deliverables risks issues and action items
• Working knowledge of project management practices including schedule management budget tracking resource planning status reporting and stakeholder communication
• Experience leading meetings and proactively following up with project contributors to maintain progress
• Strong technical curiosity and the ability to understand project complexities and translate technical information into clear stakeholder updates
• Strong initiative work ethic organization attention to detail judgment and problem-solving skills
• Support continuous improvement of project processes templates and communication practices.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and a team player
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adjust to changing project needs
• Willingness to support pilot installations training commissioning and manufacturing launch activities
• Experience with project financial forecasting resource-allocation planning or customer-facing project work is a plus

• 2 experience managing technical projects
• Experience in manufacturing environments
• Bachelors degree in Management Engineering or equivalent experience
• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• Ability to provide full time daily onsite PM services at our clients facility in Redford MI

Candidates for this role with Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application without sponsorship. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color age sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability status or protected veteran status. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call.

• Health Care Plan (Medical Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Profit Sharing
• Life Insurance (Basic Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Support to grow in multiple areas

Required Experience:

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