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When you join the Sandalwood team, you’ll join an engaging and inclusive group with a mission to help our customers identify, assess, and reduce work-related risks to quality, productivity, and employee health.

In your day to day activities, you’ll work with multiple customers, as a consultant and trusted partner in Sandalwood’s areas of expertise of Systems Integration, Injury Prevention and Systems Engineering. You’ll help customers innovate, solve their current struggles and guide them with the power of Sandalwood’s deeply ingrained subject matter expertise.

Sandalwood’s people are its greatest and most treasured asset. Learn more about our focus on our people on our YouTube Channel, Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics.

The Technical Project Manager will join a growing team supporting the development, pilot implementation, and production launch of manufacturing technology products.

Responsibilities will include coordinating multiple technical workstreams across software development, engineering, manufacturing, and customer teams. The Project Manager will maintain project schedules, product-development milestones, Jira dashboards, burndown reporting, resource plans, financial forecasts, and project documentation. They will facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, project reviews, and recurring status meetings while proactively following up with workstream leads, escalating blocked activities, and communicating project progress and risks to stakeholders.

This role is ideal for someone with a strong project coordination foundation who takes initiative, enjoys bringing structure to complex technical environments, and can communicate effectively with engineers, software teams, manufacturing stakeholders, customers, and leadership.

Successful candidates will have the following attributes:

• 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
• Ability 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

Requirements

• 2+ experience managing technical projects
• Experience in manufacturing environments
• Bachelor's degree in Management, Engineering or equivalent experience
• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• Ability to provide full time daily onsite PM services at our client’s facility in Redford, MI

Candidates for this role with Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application, without sponsorship. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 734-744-9705.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Profit Sharing
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Support to grow in multiple areas