Sr Project Manager

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

As a Senior Project Manager at MKS Instruments, you will partner with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product Management, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Finance, and external implementation partners to focus primarily on the enterprise replacement of the current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform.  You will manage the program from planning through deployment, driving business-process alignment, solution delivery, data migration, integrations, organizational readiness, and adoption while maintaining clear governance across business units and regions. In this role, you will report to the Sr IT Program Manager.

You Will Make an Impact By:

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the Next Generation PLM replacement, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, quality, and benefits realization.
• Establish program governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, and executive communications that enable timely, fact-based decisions.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to align global product-development and lifecycle-management processes, define requirements, manage scope, and maintain clear accountability for decisions and deliverables.
• Coordinate solution design, configuration, testing, data cleansing and migration, system integrations, validation, cutover, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization across multiple workstreams.
• Manage the system integrator and other vendors, including deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, financial performance, issue resolution, and adherence to MKS standards.
• Drive organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness assessments, and adoption planning for impacted users and functions.
• Identify and proactively resolve cross-functional risks, resource constraints, competing priorities, and dependencies with ERP, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and downstream enterprise systems.
• Maintain complete and audit-ready program documentation, including plans, requirements, decisions, risks, issues, actions, test evidence, deployment readiness, and lessons learned.

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree
• PMP or CAPM certification preferred
• 5 plus years of progressive experience managing complex or cross-functional project
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex, cross-functional enterprise technology or business-transformation programs from initiation through deployment and stabilization.
• Experience delivering PLM, product-development, engineering, quality, or master-data solutions in a global manufacturing environment.
• Strong command of project and program management disciplines, including integrated planning, financial management, dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing system integrators, software vendors, contracts, statements of work, milestones, and delivery performance.
• Ability to translate business objectives and technical constraints into clear plans, decisions, actions, and leadership communications.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Working knowledge of data migration, enterprise integrations, testing, validation, cutover, change management, and deployment-readiness practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Direct experience implementing or replacing an enterprise PLM platform, such as Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Oracle Agile PLM, or a comparable solution.
• Experience integrating PLM with ERP, MES, CAD, quality, document-management, and reporting platforms.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), Agile, or comparable certification.
• Experience in a regulated, high-technology, semiconductor, industrial, or advanced-manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading global teams across multiple business units, regions, and time zones.
• Familiarity with product data governance, bills of material, engineering change management, document control, and product compliance.

Supervisory Scope

• Reporting Relationships: No direct reports anticipated; leads a matrixed team of business process owners, functional leads, technical resources, site representatives, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Financial Responsibilities: Responsible for program budget planning, forecasting, actuals tracking, vendor spend oversight, and financial variance reporting within the approved investment.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Ability to perform work at a computer and participate in virtual or in-person meetings for extended periods.
• Ability to communicate effectively through written, verbal, and presentation-based channels.
• Work is primarily performed in an office or remote-office environment with periodic visits to manufacturing and engineering sites.
• May require occasional work outside standard business hours to support global teams, critical deployments, cutover activities, and issue resolution.
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally, as business needs require.

Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants for these positions may need to be “U.S. persons.” “U.S. persons” are generally defined as U.S. citizens, noncitizen nationals, lawful permanent residents (or, green card holders), individuals granted asylum, and individuals admitted as refugees.

MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

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