Agile Project Manager
Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics · Livonia, MI · 2 mo ago
On-siteProject ManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Coordinate multiple technical workstreams across software development, engineering, manufacturing, and customer teams.
- Maintain project schedules, product-development milestones, Jira dashboards, burndown reporting, resource plans, financial forecasts, and project documentation.
- Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, project reviews, and recurring status meetings.
- Proactively follow up with workstream leads, escalate blocked activities, and communicate project progress and risks to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 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.
- Able 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.