Manufacturing Project Engineer

Position: Manufacturing Project Engineer

Experience: 4 to 7 Yrs

Location: Chennai

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple complex manufacturing projects involving clinical, commercial, outsourcing, and operational excellence initiatives.

• Develop, manage, and maintain detailed MS Project schedules, including milestones, dependencies, deliverables, resource constraints, and critical paths.

• Establish project plans, timelines, priorities, risks, and resource requirements to ensure successful project execution.

• Monitor project progress against scope, schedule, cost, quality, and resource requirements.

• Identify project risks, dependencies, and constraints and implement appropriate mitigation and corrective actions.

• Lead cross-functional project teams involving Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, IT, Operations, and external suppliers.

• Plan and lead requirements, design, manufacturing, and project review meetings.

• Plan and schedule purchased sub-components required for prototype builds and new programs.

• Coordinate with Procurement, Engineering, Suppliers, and Manufacturing teams to ensure component availability.

• Establish component delivery schedules based on prototype and production requirements.

MES / Manufacturing Digitalization

• Lead the planning, deployment, optimization, and integration of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) across manufacturing operations.
• Coordinate between IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and Plant Floor teams for MES implementation.
• Track the deployment portfolio of MES modules across multi-site production lines.
• Knowledge of MES modules such as OEE, tracking & tracing, downtime monitoring, production tracking, and work-order dispatching.