Position Summary: The Project Manager – PMC & Delivery links customers, Sales, and plant operations, translating customer forecasts and orders into coordinated launch, production, material, and delivery plans. This role leads cross-functional project follow-up from demand/introduction through production readiness and delivery, while overseeing production planning and material control (PMC), managing risks, and driving issues to closure. Must be fluent in Chinese.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Demand & Project Launch
- Gather/confirm forecasts, orders, specs, dates, and milestones with Sales and customers.
- Translate requirements into project plans, production needs, material requirements, owners, and due dates.
- Coordinate launch reviews with Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Production, Quality, and Logistics; track sample/pilot builds, readiness, and delivery.
- Maintain schedules, risks, open issues, and change records; evaluate impacts on material, capacity, cost, and delivery.
- Production Planning & Material Control (PMC)
- Develop/maintain production, material, and delivery plans based on orders, forecasts, inventory, lead times, and capacity.
- Coordinate with Procurement/suppliers to track critical material availability, resolve shortages, and escalate supply risks.
- Monitor inventory, WIP, order status, and production progress; align planned output with execution.
- Support PSI and S&OP reviews with accurate demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and delivery data.
- Customer Communication & Delivery Management
- Serve as day-to-day contact for project/order status; provide timely updates on plans, changes, and delivery risks.
- Coordinate issue resolution with internal teams across order, material, production, quality, logistics, and delivery.
- Maintain an issue log with owners, due dates, actions, and closure status; escalate major risks promptly.
- Performance, Reporting & Process Improvement
- Establish tracking for milestones, commitments, material risks, and customer issues.
- Report delivery performance, identify root causes of delays/shortages/gaps, and coordinate corrective actions.
- Recommend process improvements to boost schedule reliability, responsiveness, and inventory health.
- Provide project, delivery, and supply risk updates to the Plant Director and key stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years in manufacturing, supply chain, demand/production planning, PMC, procurement, order management, or project coordination.
- End-to-end process knowledge from customer forecast to delivery; experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with PSI, S&OP, MRP, inventory management, and scheduling; ERP and advanced Excel preferred.
- Strong data analysis, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Fluent Chinese and effective English communication required; Korean skills a plus.
- Energy storage, battery, automotive, or electronics manufacturing experience preferred.
- Must work on-site and support off-hours delivery/production needs as required.
