Senior Project Manager - Team Lead

About Us

At Plexus, our vision is to help create the products that build a better world. By embracing an innovative culture of excellence, we pride ourselves on designing, manufacturing and servicing some of the world’s most transformative products. From life-saving medical technology and mission-critical defense solutions to sophisticated industrial automation, we’re proud to partner with our customers to bring their complex ideas to market.

Visit Plexus.com to learn more about our unwavering commitment to our vision.

Living Our Values

With a vision rooted in the wellbeing and inclusive engagement of our team members, our customers, their end users and our communities, people are the heart of what we do and who we are. Our values unite and guide us in everything that we do.

Our values include: Growing our People, Building Belonging, Innovating Responsibly, Delivering Excellence and Creating Customer Success.

As part of our team, you’ll do impactful work within an inclusive environment where everyone works together to achieve extraordinary outcomes. You’ll be empowered to reach your full potential through managing your own personalised development plan and access to our learning and development programs.

At our Livingston Design Centre, we are looking for a dynamic Senior Project Manager - Team Lead who isn’t just focused on deliverables, but thrives on leading, inspiring, and developing high-performing teams.

In this role, your primary impact will be your people. You will provide strong, direct leadership to cross-functional engineering and project management talent through the full product development lifecycle. You won't just keep projects on schedule—you will set the standard for team culture, empower your engineers, and align talent directly with high-stakes customer goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct Team Leadership & Empowerment: Serve as a dedicated leader and coach for multi-disciplinary teams. Define clear operational targets, foster accountability, clear roadblocks, and build a high-trust, high-performance team culture.
• Talent Development & Mentorship: Actively recruit, line-manage, and mentor engineering and project management professionals. Build robust succession plans, champion continuous personal development, and shape the next generation of leaders.
• Strategic Business Development: Lead customer development processes to win new business, using your team’s collective capability to build high-value, long-term partnerships.
• Complex Project Execution: Take full command of project delivery across the complete value stream—balancing budget, scope, quality, and risk management with a sharp focus on team bandwidth and resource optimization.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partner closely with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain managers to ensure seamless product introductions across Global Manufacturing Solutions sites.
• Work-Sharing & Global Collaboration: Champion global teamwork by matching international project opportunities with team capabilities, fostering knowledge exchange, and balancing local workload with global resources.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Act as a catalyst for change by refining processes, breaking down organizational silos, and raising the bar for operational efficiency across the Livingston site.