Sr IT Project Manager

Role Title:
Sr. IT Project Manager

Employment Type:
Contract

Duration:
1 year+

Preferred Location:
Prefer local to Milwaukee but open to remote with travel

Role Description:

The Sr. IT Project Manager will lead and coordinate the cross-functional IT enablement required to retrofit the plant to support Supercapacitor production. This role is accountable for planning and delivery across applications, plant/shop-floor systems, data/integration, and site infrastructure, ensuring project outcomes meet schedule, scope, quality, and stakeholder expectations.

Promote and enforce IT PMO methodologies and delivery standards (charter, phase gates, RAID, financials, reporting).

• Own the integrated project plan across IT workstreams and partners; manage dependencies between business readiness and IT deliveries (plant floor, supply chain, warehouse, finance, quality).
• Provide consistent executive-level status reporting, risk/issue escalation, and steering committee materials.
• You will coordinate delivery planning, requirements, execution, and cutover readiness across the following areas- ERP, EDI/Integration, MOM/MES, EAM, Data & Analytics & plant infrastructure

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of IT project management experience, ideally in a manufacturing/plant environment with cross-functional teams (IT + Operations + Supply Chain + Finance).
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise application and plant enablement initiatives involving ERP and operational execution systems (e.g., MES/SCADA) and integration dependencies.
• Strong financial, schedule, and risk/issue management discipline; able to drive vendor delivery and stakeholder alignment under aggressive timelines.
• Project management certification (PMP / PRINCE2 / APMP) preferred.

Preferred / Nice-to-have

• Familiarity with SAP and ERP
• Experience with EDI, supplier/customer transaction flows, and plant traceability/labeling processes.
• Experience with IBM Maximo (EAM) and/or manufacturing ops platforms (MES, Quality/SPC, warehouse systems).
• Experience coordinating analytics/reporting solutions (PowerBI/Snowflake) and supply chain exception reporting.