Manufacturing Project Manager

Position Summary:

Carestream Health is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives supporting the manufacturing of medical digital radiography systems, digital detectors, and non-destructive testing (NDT) imaging equipment. This role is critical to driving execution across engineering, operations, planning, quality, and R&D teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.

MUST HAVE: 5+ years of project management experience in a manufacturing, engineering, medical device, industrial equipment, and technical product environment. This is NOT an IT or business role. 

The ideal candidate is a collaborative and highly organized project leader with experience in technical or regulated manufacturing environments. This individual will bring structure, visibility, and accountability to project execution while helping teams manage priorities, resources, risks, and timelines effectively.

Position Responsibilities:

• As an individual contributor will lead cross-functional projects from initiation through completion, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives are achieved.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate execution across engineering, operations, planning, quality, supply chain, and R&D teams to drive alignment and achieve project goals.
• Establish and maintain project governance, tracking tools, and reporting mechanisms to improve visibility to priorities, timelines, and resource constraints.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks and bottlenecks, and drive timely resolution of issues.
• Facilitate project reviews, stakeholder meetings, and action tracking to support accountability, communication, and decision-making.
• Support prioritization and resource planning across multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Identify and implement process improvements, systems, or standard work that enhance project execution and cross-functional collaboration.
• Support change management activities related to new tools, workflows, or operational initiatives.
• Travel less than 5% if needed in addition to local Carestream sites. 
• All other duties as needed.

Required Skills & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, project management, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of project management experience in a manufacturing, engineering, medical device, industrial equipment, and technical product environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects involving engineering and operational teams.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, including scope development, scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience using project management tools to build schedules, track progress, and manage priorities.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and shifting priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in communicating with stakeholders.

Desired Skills:

• PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Experience in a regulated manufacturing environment, such as medical device, imaging technology, or industrial inspection equipment.
• Experience implementing new tools, systems, or workflow improvements that increase operational efficiency.
• Six Sigma Green/Black Belt Certification
• Medical device knowledge including ISO13485 and MDSAP requirements
• Experience working with ERP, MRP, or project portfolio management systems.

Work Environment:

Traditional Office Environment 

This position is primarily an office setting with standard temperature and humidity controls, moderate to light noise, fluorescent lighting, primarily sitting with standing desks available, extensive computer and keyboard use, etc.