Senior Warehouse Automation Project Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate, large-scale automation initiatives from the initiation phase through customer acceptance and project closure.

• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, vendor performance, stakeholder communications, and deliverables across multiple simultaneous projects.

• Create and sustain comprehensive project plans and timelines, which encompass milestones, resource allocation, budgets, and dependencies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, roles, and resource requirements.

• Secure approval on established scope and manage subsequent changes through documented authorization and communication.

• Assist with project estimates during the sales process.

• Develop and oversee project budgets, update monthly cost projections, and review performance with the Finance department.

• Process and monitor change orders, track potential overruns, issue alerts, and suggest corrective measures.

• Maintain risk registers and issue trackers; facilitate reviews and execute mitigation and contingency strategies.

• Formulate quality plans and metrics, and initiate corrective actions as necessary.

• Document testing scenarios, review them with clients, and oversee testing until completion.

• Create volume ramp plans and coordinate readiness for the transition from prototype to full-scale production.

• Identify, assess, select, and manage vendors, including general contractors, riggers, installers, and conveyor suppliers.

• Foster relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal teams, ensuring ongoing communication throughout the project lifecycle.

• Develop communication plans and governance structures, establish steering committees, lead weekly status meetings, produce weekly reports, and deliver monthly executive updates.

• Inspire and guide project teams while supporting Project Managers with scope, scheduling, resource modifications, risks, issues, and escalations.

• Confirm project completion and customer approval, organize final documentation, conduct lessons learned sessions, release resources, and transition projects to support.

• Enhance project management templates and processes while staying updated on robotics and supply chain methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.

• A minimum of five years of project management experience, ideally within robotics or supply chain sectors.

• Proven track record of delivering complex projects from inception through to completion.

• Strong organizational and prioritization abilities, with the capacity to manage multiple projects and cross-functional teams.

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, including the ability to perform under pressure.

• Proficiency in project management software such as MS Project, JIRA, or Asana.

• Experience with Microsoft Power BI.

• Understanding of quality management, risk management, change control, and issue resolution practices.

• PMP or a similar project management certification is preferred.

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Approximately 50% travel required to engage with customers and assess installation progress.