Senior Project Manager – Industrial Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kansas, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery of 2–4 simultaneous client projects involving material handling equipment (MHE), robotics, and warehouse automation systems.

• Administer project lifecycles from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring/control, and final closure.

• Supervise the integration, installation, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), commissioning, and go-live transition of robotics and automation.

• Interpret and utilize automated system design drawings and layouts to monitor scope, sequence installation, and resolve field-fit challenges.

• Manage project Profit and Loss (P&L), budgets, cost tracking, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance management effectively.

• Oversee change orders, scope modifications, and commercial implications to safeguard profit margins.

• Coordinate with third-party vendors, integrators, and subcontractors regarding scheduling, performance, quality, and site coordination.

• Align procurement timelines for MHE and automation equipment appropriately.

• Act as the primary accountability point for assigned clients and advocate for their priorities.

• Lead steering committee updates, client business reviews, and executive presentations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, controls, software, procurement, and field services stakeholders.

• Recognize and mitigate project risks while maintaining comprehensive risk and issue logs.

• Administer formal change control processes effectively.

• Ensure the completion of IQ/OQ/PQ and FAT/SAT documentation and quality checkpoints prior to go-live.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7+ years of progressive project management and leadership experience in delivering large, multi-site projects, ideally in warehouse automation, MHE, robotics, e-commerce/retail distribution & fulfillment, software, or logistics.

• Direct experience in managing warehouse automation or MHE implementation projects, including robotics integration and installation, from design through to commissioning and go-live.

• Proven experience managing Design-Bid-Build projects and owning project budgets/P&L, with capabilities in cost tracking, forecasting, and change order management.

• Demonstrated success in managing third-party vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors, including both onsite and remote project teams.

• Strong experience in high-level stakeholder and executive relationship management, particularly with executive-level clients.

• Competence in MS Office and MS Project.

• Willingness to travel 25–50% to KPI Centers of Excellence, corporate offices, and project sites as required.

• PMP certification is preferred.

• Familiarity with PLC/SCADA/HMI, ASRS, AMR/AGV, and GTP terminology is preferred.

• A background in warehouse automation, MHE, robotics, e-commerce, retail distribution and fulfillment, software, automation, and/or logistics is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• Health Care Concierge Service

• 401(k) Retirement Plan (Pre-tax & Roth)

• Company-paid Basic Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability

• Voluntary Life & AD&D Insurance

• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• Pet Insurance

• Milk Stork Program

• Wellness Program with gift card redemption and wellness challenges

• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & 10 Holidays)

• Training & Development