Job Title: Project Lead/ Project Manager (Manufacturing Solutions)

Location: Noida/Gurugram/Bangalore/ Hyderabad (ONSITE)

Employment Type: Full Time Role

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Required Qualifications and Experience

- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Approximately 5-8+ years of experience in project delivery, manufacturing consulting, industrial engineering, MRO optimization, or enterprise systems implementation.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, delivery teams, vendors, or implementation partners.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production, maintenance, procurement, inventory, and storeroom processes.
- Practical knowledge of MRO master data, asset BOMs, preventive maintenance, inventory optimization, and supplier management.
- Experience with project planning, risk management, KPI reporting, documentation, and customer acceptance.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, project tracking tools, and data analysis.
- Willingness to travel to customer manufacturing plants when required.

Preferred Qualifications Not Mandatory

- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent project management certification.
- Experience with CMMS/EAM platforms such as Fiix, SAP PM, IBM Maximo, or Infor EAM.
- Exposure to SAP ERP/S/4HANA, enterprise data migration, or digital transformation programs.
- Experience with MRO data cleansing, UNSPSC classification, equipment BOM development, ABC analysis, Min/Max planning, or Kraljic Matrix assessments.
- Familiarity with API integrations, manufacturing systems, and IT/OT coordination.
- Experience in food and beverage manufacturing or other asset-intensive industries.

1. Project Planning and Delivery

- Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery across manufacturing and MRO transformation engagements.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource plans, milestones, budgets, RAID logs, and status reports.
- Manage scope, dependencies, risks, change requests, and escalations to ensure timely delivery.
- Establish project governance, quality standards, acceptance criteria, and stage-gate reviews.
- Track deliverables against agreed timelines, budgets, quality expectations, and customer requirements.

2. Delivery Partner and Cross-Functional Coordination

- Act as the central coordination point between clients, internal teams, technology providers, and multiple delivery partners.




- Define roles, responsibilities, dependencies, deliverables, and accountability across workstreams.
- Conduct regular project reviews, governance meetings, action tracking, and issue-resolution sessions.
- Identify delivery bottlenecks, resource constraints, and integration dependencies, and drive timely resolution.
- Ensure consistent communication, documentation, and reporting across geographically distributed teams.

3. Client Engagement and Plant-Level Requirements

- Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for customer stakeholders, including plant managers, maintenance, production, engineering, procurement, stores, and IT teams.
- Coordinate and participate in plant visits, discovery workshops, operational assessments, and requirements-gathering sessions.
- Understand current-state manufacturing processes, maintenance workflows, spare parts management, procurement practices, and operational challenges.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, project deliverables, action plans, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Manage client expectations, resolve concerns, communicate project status, and maintain strong customer relationships.

4. MRO, Asset and Inventory Optimization

- Oversee project workstreams involving MRO material master cleansing, parts categorization, standardization, duplicate identification, and data enrichment.
- Coordinate asset hierarchy validation, equipment BOM creation, and preventive maintenance (PM) parts linkage in CMMS/EAM systems.
- Monitor ABC/Pareto analysis, asset and spare-parts criticality assessment, Min/Max optimization, safety stock, and reorder-point recommendations.
- Coordinate supplier master cleansing, vendor performance tracking, supplier segmentation, and Kraljic Matrix assessments.
- Oversee storeroom organization, physical inventory verification, QR/barcode tagging, and inventory location mapping.
- Ensure data quality, engineering validation, business-owner approvals, and traceability of master-data changes.

5. Systems Integration and Digital Transformation

- Coordinate implementation activities involving CMMS/EAM, ERP, maintenance systems, and related manufacturing applications.




- Work with technical teams to manage integration requirements, data mapping, system dependencies, testing, and deployment readiness.
- Coordinate system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), defect resolution, cutover, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Ensure technical documentation, integration dependencies, and support procedures are maintained.
- Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, IT/OT teams, implementation partners, and technology vendors

6. KPI Management and Business Outcomes

- Define and monitor project KPIs covering schedule, scope, data quality, inventory accuracy, BOM completeness, PM parts linkage, and supplier data quality.
- Establish baselines, targets, reporting frequency, ownership, and evidence requirements for each KPI.
- Prepare project dashboards, management reports, and steering committee presentations.
- Track customer perks such as improved spare-parts availability, reduced inventory exposure, faster parts retrieval, improved maintenance readiness, and reduced emergency purchasing.
- Coordinate with client Finance and operational owners to validate claimed savings and ensure benefits are evidence-based.
- Drive corrective actions where delivery performance or agreed KPIs fall below target.

7. Risk, Quality and Governance Management

- Maintain project risk, assumption, issue, dependency, decision, and change-control registers.
- Ensure master-data changes, duplicate merges, obsolete-part dispositions, and engineering decisions follow approved governance procedures.
- Monitor project quality through deliverable reviews, data-validation checks, testing evidence, and customer acceptance.
- Escalate operational, technical, commercial, and schedule risks through the appropriate governance channels.
- Ensure project documentation, audit trails, handover records, and acceptance evidence are complete.

8. Commercial and Business Support

- Support project estimation, resource planning, effort assessment, proposals, statements of work, and delivery planning.
- Monitor scope changes, resource utilization, delivery costs, and project-level commercial commitments.
- Identify opportunities for additional services, follow-on projects, and expansion across customer sites.
- Contribute to account planning, customer presentations, solution demonstrations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Help develop reusable delivery methodologies, templates, reporting standards, and project management best practices.

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