Job Description

• Lead and manage large-scale projects, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality requirements, with effective risk management and deployment readiness.
• Lead and manage the projects under the end-to-end Open and Direct Grant Call workstreams, coordinating project initiation, evaluation, award, execution, milestone monitoring and closure across the grant lifecycle.
• Set and enforce delivery standards (templates, checklists, quality gates) to reduce delivery variability and improve repeatability across the programme.
• Work closely with Institute of Higher Learning (IHLs), research partners and relevant committees to coordinate submissions, reviews and governance activities, ensuring timely decisions, stakeholder alignment and effective delivery of awarded projects.
• 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 across key stakeholder groups (industry partners, internal functions, and—where applicable—public agencies), ensuring effective communications.
• Work closely 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 towards common objectives; 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 requirements; 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