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Build the Future with Hexion.\nAt Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact.We activate science to deliver progress-developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.\nThis is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.\nWe don’t follow the status quo-we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it. Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.\nWe invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development-equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.\nYour Future Starts Here.\nIf you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary,Hexion is where you belong.\nAnything is possible when you imagine everything.\nPosition Overview\nThe AI Project & Operations Manager is a hands-on senior individual contributor responsible for driving current-quarter delivery while building the operating systems that improve future execution. The role combines end-to-end technology program management with business and delivery operations across Smartech AI.\nSmartech AI develops AI software for wood panel mills, including oriented strand board (OSB), particleboard and medium-density fiberboard (MDF) operations. Its Board Health platform gives mills real-time visibility into sources of value loss across flow, moisture, furnish, adhesive, cure and board quality. With the platform live at its first mill, this role will help move the business from pilot deployment to a repeatable, scalable launch model.\nThis individual will align Platform and IT, R&D, and Customer Delivery through clear priorities, disciplined planning, operating cadence and consistent follow-through. The role leads through influence and execution rather than formal headcount authority.\nJob Responsibilities\nOwn quarterly commitments across engineering, R&D and customer delivery, including scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, decisions and stakeholder reporting.\nLead coordinated planning across multiple technical and delivery teams, translating shared priorities into executable plans with clear owners and milestones. \nIdentify at-risk initiatives early and develop recovery plans that align stakeholders, resolve dependencies and restore delivery confidence. \nEstablish and run the operating cadence for the business, including planning cycles, business reviews, decision tracking and action follow-through. \nBuild and maintain executive-ready KPIs and dashboards that provide visibility into delivery progress, operational health, risks and business outcomes. \nDesign practical processes, handoffs and playbooks that support repeatable customer launches and scale as the organization grows. \nConnect the Platform and IT team responsible for cloud data architecture, plant connectivity and deployment with the R&D and Customer Delivery teams, coordinating the integration and deployment of manufacturing software - including Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM/MOS) platforms - and supporting operational adoption in plant environments. \nCoordinate a globally distributed data science and modeling organization, including team members in Israel, across time zones and functional boundaries. \nPartner with customer success managers and forward-deployed engineers to support mill connectivity, training, adoption and value realization. \nUse tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira to create transparency, manage execution and maintain accountability across workstreams. \nCommunicate complex delivery issues, trade-offs, risks and decisions clearly to engineers, field teams, customers and senior leaders. \nContinuously improve the operating model by applying lessons learned from current deployments to future planning and launch execution. \nCompetencies\nKPIs\nOn-time delivery of quarterly commitments across engineering, R&D and customer delivery. \nImproved visibility and predictability of milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and actions. \nRecovery and stabilization of at-risk workstreams. \nAdoption and effectiveness of operating cadences, dashboards, handoffs and playbooks. \nReduction in avoidable delivery friction between platform, modeling and customer-facing teams. \nIncreasing repeatability and scalability of customer launch and mill deployment processes. \nClear executive understanding of delivery status, operating health and priority trade-offs. \nLeadership Competencies\nExecution Discipline: Translates priorities into clear plans, maintains momentum and follows through on commitments. \nCross-Functional Influence: Aligns technical, R&D and customer-facing stakeholders without relying on formal authority. \nOperational Excellence: Builds practical rhythms, tools and processes that improve consistency, transparency and scale. \nRisk and Dependency Management: Surfaces issues early, clarifies trade-offs and drives timely decisions. \nCustomer Orientation: Connects internal delivery work to successful implementation, adoption and customer value. \nClear Communication: Communicates concisely and credibly with engineers, field teams, customers and senior leaders. \nContinuous Improvement: Turns lessons from current-quarter execution into a stronger operating model for future quarters. \nLearning Agility: Builds fluency in industrial manufacturing, plant connectivity and AI-enabled software delivery. \nMinimum Qualifications\n10+ years of experience managing complex technology projects from initiation through delivery, including scope, schedule, dependencies, risks and stakeholder reporting. \nDemonstrated success leading coordinated planning across multiple engineering or technical teams, such as quarterly planning or release-train planning, with measurable delivery results. \nProven experience recovering at-risk projects through clear plans, stakeholder alignment and disciplined execution. \nHands-on experience with project management and delivery tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira. \nExperience delivering, integrating or deploying manufacturing software in plant environments, particularly Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM/MOS) platforms, with demonstrated ability to support operational adoption. \nExperience designing and operating business rhythms, including business reviews, planning cycles, decision logs and action tracking. \nDemonstrated experience building KPIs and dashboards used by executives to support decisions. \nExperience creating scalable processes, handoffs and playbooks that were adopted by others and evolved as a team or business grew. \nExperience leading or coordinating large, globally distributed engineering and quality assurance teams across time zones without relying on formal authority. \nClear, concise written and verbal communication skills across technical teams, field organizations, customers and senior leadership. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience delivering digital or software products in an industrial, chemical or manufacturing company, ideally with commercial-facing products used by external customers. \nPrior software development leadership experience, such as developer, lead developer or engineering manager. \nStartup or early-stage experience, including moving an alpha, prototype or pilot into production and repeatable deployment. \nExperience coordinating customer-facing delivery teams such as customer success, implementation or field engineering. \nPMP, Agile or equivalent recognized project management certification, combined with the judgment to scale process to fit the team and situation. \nFamiliarity with industrial data and plant-connectivity technologies, including MES, MOM/MOS, historians, OPC and IoT platforms, or demonstrated ability and strong motivation to build fluency in these areas quickly. \nOther\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.\nTo be considered for this position candidates are required to submit an application for employment through our career site and, be at least 18 years of age. Any offer of employment will be conditioned upon successful completion of a drug test and background investigation, as well as authorization for the Company to conduct additional periodic background checks as required by the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or regulations adopted by the department of Homeland Security or other regulatory agencies. 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