Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager – Facility Transfer & StartupPosition Summary We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex facility transfers, industrialization projects, and manufacturing startup activities. This role requires a strong combination of project management, operations leadership, and technical expertise to ensure successful execution of facility consolidations, production transfers, and ramp-ups while maintaining business continuity, quality, cost, and schedule commitments. The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically strong, and capable of removing roadblocks across operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, ERP, facilities, and production. Key Responsibilities Lead facility transfers, consolidations, manufacturing transfers, industrialization, production start-ups, and ERP deployment projects from planning through stable operations. Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, responsibilities, success criteria, and implementation roadmaps. Develop and maintain integrated project plans, critical paths, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource plans. Drive project execution to achieve schedule, cost, quality, operational-readiness, and revenue objectives. Coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, facilities, and IT. Lead project meetings, governance reviews, and executive-level status reporting. Identify and remove technical, operational, and organizational roadblocks while driving accountability across all functions. Identify project risks, constraints, and dependencies, and implement effective mitigation plans. Challenge assumptions and develop practical solutions to issues affecting execution, quality, cost, timing, or production readiness. Coordinate facility layouts, material flow, capacity planning, workforce ramp-up, and training activities. Oversee equipment installation, tooling, commissioning, qualification, production documentation, process validation, first-article inspection, and operational qualification. Ensure work instructions, equipment, tooling, training plans, and other manufacturing requirements are in place before production start-up. Coordinate ERP master data, routings, inventory transfers, planning parameters, system readiness, and cutover activities. Maintain operational continuity throughout facility, production, and systems transitions. Lead the transition from project execution to stable and sustainable production. Coach project teams and functional leaders while promoting disciplined project management and continuous improvement. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or related field. 10+ years of manufacturing, operations, industrialization, or project management experience. Proven experience leading facility transfers, plant startups, or major operational transformations. Strong technical understanding of manufacturing equipment, production systems, quality systems, ERP systems, and supply chain processes. Excellent leadership and executive communication skills. PMP certification is an asset. Must be a Canadian citizen and able to travel domestically and internationally, as required. This is primarily an office-based position, with the flexibility to work remotely and from other company or project locations as business needs dictate. Fluency in French and English is required. Job Type: Full-time Pay: From $120,000.00 per year Work Location: On the road

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