Project Manager – Manufacturing Innovation

Availability: Full time

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 5+ years in project management experience preferred

About the Role

· We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to drive zero waste manufacturing innovations at our customers’ manufacturing plants. We are looking for a self-motivated person with a positive "can-do" attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

· As a project manager, you will play a key role in the implementation of our AI projects.

Key Work Responsibilities

· Develop tailor-made change management strategies within the framework of digital transformation projects for Manufacturing Shopfloor.

· Assist project management division to build project management processes & templates.

· Set up detailed project planning and milestone tracking relating to Industry 4.0 implementations.

· Assessment of AI-Readiness of plants covering the topics of Sensors, PLCs, Traceability, Edge Devices, and Cloud Connectivity.

· Collaborate with stakeholders from customer plants to develop project scope, deliverables, goals, blockers, resources needed, etc.

· Conduct interviews and workshops as part of change management for the adoption of our AI products at customers’ plants.

· Lead customer meetings, manage expectations and build close relationships with customers to acquire their requirements.

· Manage interface among customers,



external vendors, sales, product, and tech team to deliver projects successfully.

· Ensure continuous learning with respect to manufacturing innovation trends.

Your Background

· Master’s or bachelor’s Degree in the engineering field of mechanical engineering, production engineering, industrial engineering or equivalent

· Strong project management skills from initiation to closure (scoping, structuring, work planning, status reporting tools, mgmt. updates)

· Experience in Industry 4.0 projects especially in the shopfloor digitalization, IIoT implementation, automation for manufacturing is essential.

· You are enthusiastic about digitization in production, e.g. for Industry 4.0, IIoT, MES, KI, predictive maintenance, and prescriptive quality use cases.

· Excellent presentation and communication (verbal and written in English and German) skills

· Ability to cope with ambiguity, especially in the project context

· Analytical mindset, innovative thinker, and collaborator

· Ability to mediate and bring cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus

· High degree of self-management and drive

· Robust customer orientation, ability to work in a team, flexibility, and willingness to travel are required. Preferred Skills

· Experience in the manufacturing or metal processing industry is a plus.

📌 Project Manager – Manufacturing Innovation (Pune)
🏢 KBS Techsolution
📍 Pune