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Advanced Manufacturing Strategy Project Manager - GSA Job in Westerville, Ohio US

Advanced Manufacturing Strategy Project Manager - GSA

Vertiv Corporation - Westerville, OH

Posted: 12/5/2025 - Expires: 1/4/2026

Job ID: 292960522

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Job Description

Job Description: Advanced Manufacturing Strategy Project Manager

Location:
Department: Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME)
Reports To: Director, Advanced Manufacturing Strategy
Travel: Up to 25%
Experience: 7 or more years

Position Summary

The Advanced Manufacturing Strategy Project Manager plays a critical role in shaping and communicating Vertiv's global manufacturing strategy. This role leads capacity planning initiatives, drives manufacturing footprint analysis, and ensures consistent communication to customers and executive leaders. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, collaborative, and skilled at translating complex operational data into customer-focused value propositions.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

* Lead global coordination of capacity communication to key customers, including current, available, and future-state capacity plans.

* Develop consistent messaging and materials for customer presentations and executive updates.

* Drive structured alignment across regions and functions to ensure clarity and consistency in manufacturing strategy.

Global Footprint Strategy

* Clearly communicate long-term manufacturing footprint strategies to customers, highlighting how Vertiv's global network supports their growth, resiliency, and service needs.

* Translate complex plant location and capacity considerations-cost, geopolitical risk, technology enablement, supply chain resiliency, customer proximity-into clear and compelling value propositions.

* Present make-vs-buy and vertical integration strategies in a customer-focused narrative that demonstrates how strategic decisions enhance reliability, innovation, and responsiveness.

Capacity Planning & Optimization

* Conduct detailed capacity modeling, scenario planning, and throughput analysis across multiple product lines, in alignment with Regional AME teams.

* Identify opportunities to optimize plant loading, equipment utilization, staffing models, and capital deployment.

* Partner with regional and plant leaders to align capacity plans with growth forecasts, demand variability, and strategic priorities.

Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration

* Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and AME to align on manufacturing strategy and investment decisions.

* Coordinate with global teams to standardize best practices, tools, and methodologies related to footprint and capacity planning.

* Support product transfers, factory ramp-ups, and global operational transitions with minimal disruption to customers.

Data-Driven Decision Making

* Use manufacturing and business intelligence tools (MES, ERP, capacity modeling platforms) to inform strategic decisions.

* Build and maintain models for manufacturing costs, utilization, throughput, and capacity scenarios.

* Synthesize data into insights for leadership to support long-term investment and footprint decisions.

Process Standardization & Scalability

* Support scalable manufacturing processes, modular BoP (Bill of Process) strategies, and digital factory principles.

* Integrate design-for-manufacturability and capacity readiness into early stages of new product development.

* Advocate for continuous improvement and standardization across manufacturing sites.

Qualifications

Education

* Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering/Technology

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Job Summary

Employment Type:
Full Time Employee
Job type:
Regular Employment
Skill Based Partner:
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Education Level:
No school grade completed
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Applied Math: 4
Graphic Literacy: 5

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