Location: Preferred relocation to Ciudad Delicias or Ciudad Juárez
Company Background
Sensience is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered sensing, control, and sealing components.
We deliver mission-critical protection and valuable data for a wide range of systems, including appliances, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration units, industrial process equipment, motor vehicles, and aerospace. We have nearly 3,000 employees worldwide across 6 manufacturing facilities dedicated to keeping people and their homes safe.
Sensience brings a track record of over 75 years of innovation, quality, specialized expertise, a highly collaborative approach, and a commitment to growth – working together with our customers as valuable partners, helping to meet their critical objectives. We recently re-established ourselves as an independent company and we are looking for entrepreneurial-minded candidates to help our company grow.
Position Summary
The project manager is accountable for governance, visibility, prioritization, and disciplined execution of Sensience’s global Value Creation Projects (VCP) portfolio. Reporting to the Vice President, Manufacturing, this role maintains a single, reliable view of the project funnel and active portfolio; measures and evaluates deliverables; tracks milestones and on-time execution; and provides clear operational and financial reporting on progress, risks, and realized value.
They work in close collaboration with the FP&A Manager, Global EHS Manager, Continuous Improvement Director, Quality Director, Plant Managers, and functional teams. The role aligns the VCP funnel and identified, approved, forecast, and realized value with Finance; facilitates governance with plants and functions; evaluates projects against available capital, support capacity, and execution constraints; and identifies each project’s critical path, risks, and mitigation actions required to secure delivery.
Position Responsibilities:
Project Portfolio Leadership:
- Own and maintain the global Value Creation Projects portfolio, including the project funnel, approved initiatives, active execution, completed projects, and realized benefits.
- Establish and facilitate consistent governance with plant and functional teams, including portfolio reviews, stage-gate decisions, escalation paths, and clear accountability for actions and deliverables.
- Provide global reporting on portfolio progress, milestone achievement, deliverable status, execution timing, resource needs, dependencies, and business impact.
- Measure, evaluate, and track project deliverables and on-time execution, ensuring that data is complete, current, and suitable for leadership decision-making.
Financial Alignment and Value Tracking
- Partner with the FP&A Manager and Finance teams to maintain alignment on the VCP funnel and the identified, validated, forecast, realized, and sustained value of each initiative.
- Prepare integrated operational and financial reports showing project progress, investment, savings, timing, forecast changes, and benefit realization.
- Reconcile project assumptions, baselines, and benefit calculations with Finance and ensure approved changes are reflected in portfolio reporting.
- Highlight gaps between identified and realized value and drive corrective actions with project owners, plants, and functional leaders.
Cross-Functional Execution
- Collaborate closely with the FP&A Manager, Global EHS Manager, Continuous Improvement Director, Quality Director, Plant Managers, and plant and functional teams to align priorities and execution requirements.
- Facilitate executive, plant, and cross-functional reviews, ensuring decisions, owners, deliverables, due dates, and follow-up actions are clearly documented and tracked.
- Coordinate support across engineering, operations, maintenance, supply chain, materials, EHS, quality, finance, commercial teams, and external partners as required by each project.
- Escalate barriers, resource gaps, and competing priorities requiring leadership intervention and drive timely resolution.
Project Controls and Risk Management
- Analyze and prioritize projects based on strategic value, financial impact, urgency, dependencies, and the availability of capital, functional support, and execution capacity.
- Define and monitor the critical path for each project, including key milestones, decision points, interdependencies, and resource commitments.
- Identify potential schedule, cost, resource, quality, safety, supply, and operational risks and ensure mitigation actions, owners, and timing are established and tracked.
- Intervene when performance deviates from approved scope, schedule, budget, or expected value, and drive recovery plans to secure execution and benefit realization.
Operational Excellence, Quality, and Compliance
- Embed Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement principles into project planning and execution.
- Ensure projects support manufacturing readiness, process validation, launch requirements, and sustainable operational performance.
- Partner with Quality and EHS leadership to ensure project activities meet applicable safety, quality, regulatory, and documentation requirements.