Job Description

• Lead and manage large-scale projects ensuring delivery to scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk management and deployment readiness.
• Lead and manage projects under the Catalytic AI workstream, taking end-to-end ownership from project initiation and planning through implementation, deployment and closure.
• Set and enforce delivery standards (templates, checklists, quality gates) to reduce delivery variability and improve repeatability across the programme.
• Provide regular project and programme updates to Management, highlighting delivery progress, key risks/issues, budget and milestone status, and matters requiring Management attention or intervention.
• Serve as the primary interface for stakeholder environments (industry partners, internal functions, and—where applicable—public agencies), ensuring effective communications.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise SG, suppliers, vendors and System Integrators (SIs) to coordinate delivery, manage dependencies and ensure alignment with Catalyic AI and Sectoral AI Centre of Excellence for Manufacturing (AIMfg) requirements.
• Deep-dive with technical/research teams to refine industry needs and translate them into clear requirements, milestones, acceptance criteria and delivery plans.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and alignment toward a common goal; anticipate misalignments and drive closure through structured decision-making.
• Ensure project documentation and reporting are relevant, accurate, complete, and compliant with A*STAR Project Lifecycle Management (PLCM) and Grant management expectations; maintain audit-ready records.
• Contribute to PLCM process improvements and guide project teams in using project/programme tools and governance processes.
• Mentor and coach junior project managers/project engineers; uplift PM discipline and delivery practice across the team through structured reviews and best-practice sharing.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Science / Industrial & Systems / Manufacturing-related disciplines
• Minimum 5 years of technical/project/programme management experience in manufacturing sectors, including delivery of advanced technology / product / manufacturing deployment projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale projects or multi-project programmes, from initiation to execution, and meeting programme KPI requirements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication across seniority levels; able to translate delivery progress into outcomes, risks, and mitigation options for leadership decision-making.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor junior PMs, and drive delivery improvements through standards and governance.
• PMP and Agile certifications; Six Sigma Green/Black Belt is advantageous