Project Manager – Industrial Controls Implementation
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Job Description
Industrial controls project manager coordinating PLC updates, issue triage, and release schedules. Supporting Symbotic’s AI-powered robotic warehouse automation platform across live customer sites.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end planning, scheduling, and execution roadmap for industrial controls (PLC) updates, hotfixes, and sustaining releases across live operational sites
- Facilitate triage and intake for live-site issues, enhancement requests, and field escalations, including backlog hygiene, technical scoping, prioritization, and SLA tracking in Jira
- Act as the primary cross-functional liaison with Site Operations leads and partners to negotiate maintenance windows, rollout schedules, and pre- and post-update verification procedures
- Enforce Management of Change protocols, rollback strategies, and operational gating criteria to minimize unplanned downtime during controls deployments
- Establish repeatable planning and release cadences to minimize site disruption and support predictable rollouts
- Standardize rollout runbooks, build visibility dashboards, and refine post-release retrospectives
- Coordinate across Controls Engineering, Software Release, software quality assurance, and Site Operations to convert operational requests, maintenance items, and bug fixes into structured, risk-mitigated release windows
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience or equivalent work experience
- Experience in project engineering, release coordination, or project management within industrial automation, robotics, warehouse automation, or complex electromechanical systems
- Advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence for intake workflows, triage facilitation, sprint and release tracking, and cross-functional reporting
- Proven experience coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder release schedules, site maintenance windows, and structured change management protocols
- Exceptional communication and organizational skills, with a demonstrated ability to align engineering, software quality assurance, and 24/7 site operations teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Systems, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical technical experience
- Practical experience or familiarity with industrial PLC platforms, including Rockwell Automation Studio 5000, controls commissioning, systems integration, Agile methodologies, or formal project management frameworks is preferred
- Valid driver's license
- Ability to drive and/or fly to client locations and company HQ
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401K
- PTO
- Business travel expenses reimbursed based on program guidelines
- Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements











