Project Manager

Reports To: Sr. Director, Operations

Position Summary

At Qualitrol, we believe our people are a competitive advantage. The role of Project Manager plays a critical role in helping us build organizational capability by serving as the primary liaison between Operations, R&D Leadership, and Talent Acquisition to ensure critical hiring initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to business priorities. This role uses visual management, project discipline, and cross-functional collaboration to create transparency, remove barriers, and accelerate hiring outcomes. The emphasis on cross-functional collaboration, visual management, accountability, and continuous improvement aligns with Qualitrol's and Ralliant's Guiding Principles of Win as One Team, Solve Problems, Learn by Doing, Unlock Growth, and Own Our Future.

In addition to leading talent delivery projects, this role will support strategic site expansion initiatives and partner closely with frontline leadership to strengthen onboarding, leader standard work, and immersion experiences that help new employees contribute quickly and successfully.

This is a highly visible role for someone who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and execution.

Key Responsibilities

Drive Critical Hiring Projects

• Serve as the embedded project manager connecting Operations and R&D leaders on the critical Fairport expansion project. 
• Build and maintain visual management systems that provide real-time visibility to hiring demand, candidate pipeline, risks, milestones, and outcomes.
• Lead weekly project reviews, identify bottlenecks, and drive countermeasures to ensure key positions are filled on schedule.
• Coordinate stakeholders across functions to improve decision-making speed and hiring effectiveness.
• Use data and metrics to prioritize work, solve problems, and improve hiring outcomes.

Support Fairport Site Expansion

• Serve as an extended member of the site expansion team as Qualitrol grows its Fairport footprint.
• Coordinate project activities, action plans, stakeholder communications, and milestone tracking.
• Ensure people, facilities, operational readiness, and organizational impacts are clearly understood and managed.
• Support cross-functional execution to ensure expansion objectives are achieved safely, efficiently, and on plan.

Strengthen Onboarding & Operational Readiness

• Partner with frontline leaders at the gemba to understand onboarding experiences, identify gaps, and implement improvements.
• Develop and sustain Leader Standard Work that creates consistency in how new employees are welcomed, trained, and integrated into the business.
• Ensure clear onboarding, training, and immersion plans are established for frontline leaders and direct labor employees.
• Create visual management tools that enable leaders to monitor onboarding progress and employee readiness.
• Collaborate with Operations, HR, and site leadership to continuously improve the new employee experience.

What Success Looks Like

• Critical technical and operational roles are filled on time and aligned with business priorities.
• Hiring projects are highly visible, predictable, and effectively managed through visual management.
• Site expansion initiatives are executed with strong cross-functional coordination and operational readiness.
• New leaders and direct labor employees have clear onboarding, immersion, and development plans.
• Leader Standard Work is consistently deployed and sustained across the Fairport site.
• Frontline teams experience faster ramp-up, stronger engagement, and improved retention.

Guiding Principle Behaviors

Win as One Team

Build trusted relationships across Operations, R&D, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, and frontline leadership to achieve shared outcomes. We collaborate across teams to deliver exceptional results. 

Solve Problems

Use data, visual management, and structured problem-solving to identify root causes, remove barriers, and improve hiring and onboarding performance. We tackle challenges head-on and build lasting solutions. 

Learn by Doing

Continuously experiment, evaluate results, and implement improvements that enhance hiring, onboarding, and operational readiness. We test, learn, and improve every day. 

Unlock Growth

Create systems and experiences that help leaders and employees develop capabilities and accelerate business performance. We invest in ourselves and others to build capability and careers.

Own Our Future