Project Manager – Industrial Controls Implementation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the comprehensive planning, scheduling, and execution roadmap for updates, hotfixes, and sustaining releases of industrial controls (PLC) across operational sites.

• Manage the triage and intake process for live-site issues, enhancement requests, and field escalations, ensuring effective backlog management, technical scoping, prioritization, and SLA tracking using Jira.

• Serve as the primary liaison across functions with Site Operations leads and partners to negotiate maintenance windows, rollout schedules, and verification procedures before and after updates.

• Implement Management of Change protocols, rollback strategies, and operational gating criteria to reduce unplanned downtime during the deployment of controls.

• Create consistent planning and release schedules to minimize disruptions at sites and ensure predictable rollouts.

• Standardize rollout runbooks, develop visibility dashboards, and enhance post-release review processes.

• Collaborate with Controls Engineering, Software Release, software quality assurance, and Site Operations to transform operational requests, maintenance tasks, and bug fixes into organized, risk-managed release windows.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience or equivalent professional background.

• Experience in project engineering, release coordination, or project management within the realms of industrial automation, robotics, warehouse automation, or complex electromechanical systems.

• Advanced skills in Jira and Confluence for managing intake workflows, facilitating triage, tracking sprints and releases, and performing cross-functional reporting.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex release schedules involving multiple stakeholders, manage site maintenance windows, and implement structured change management protocols.

• Outstanding communication and organizational abilities, with a proven track record of aligning engineering, software quality assurance, and 24/7 site operations teams.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Systems, or Computer Science, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.

• Practical knowledge or familiarity with industrial PLC platforms, such as Rockwell Automation Studio 5000, controls commissioning, systems integration, Agile methodologies, or formal project management frameworks is preferred.

• A valid driver's license.

• Willingness to travel by driving or flying to client locations and the company headquarters.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Disability benefits

• 401K

• PTO

• Business travel expenses reimbursed according to program guidelines

• Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card depending on their role and travel requirements