Senior Warehouse Automation Project Leader - Remote

Storage Solutions - A Jungheinrich Company; Fully; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary and Bonus Structure

Generous Paid Time Off

Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits

401K with Company Match

Company HSA Contribution

Professional Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Storage Solutions - A Jungheinrich Company is seeking a Senior Automation Project Manager to lead intralogistics and warehouse automation initiatives remotely. You will drive programs from contract handoff through customer acceptance, owning scope, schedule, cost, and risk while coordinating engineering, software, purchasing, installation, and service teams.

The role demands a proven ability to deliver safe, predictable, and commercially successful outcomes, with emphasis on stakeholder

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent automation projects or one highly complex program with full accountability for delivery results.
• Create and maintain the project execution plan, governance cadence, responsibility assignments, decision log, action log, and communication plan.
• Lead internal kickoff, customer kickoff, recurring project reviews, executive updates, recovery meetings, and lessons learned sessions.
• Establish clear priorities, ownership, and due dates across cross functional teams, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Mentor Project Managers and Project Coordinators and provide practical guidance on project controls, customer communication, and issue resolution.
• Escalate material risks, missed commitments, and decisions requiring leadership support with facts, impact, options, and a recommended path forward.
• Own the baseline scope and confirm alignment among the customer contract, proposal, specifications, drawings, assumptions, exclusions, schedule, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify scope gaps, interface risks, and conflicting requirements before they affect execution.
• Maintain disciplined change control, including documentation of scope, cost, schedule, risk, approval status, and customer authorization before work proceeds when contractually required.
• Monitor project financial performance, including budget, forecast, commitments, contingency, cash flow, billing milestones, margin exposure, and cost to complete.

Job description

Storage Solutions - A Jungheinrich Company is seeking a Senior Automation Project Manager to lead intralogistics and warehouse automation initiatives remotely. You will drive programs from contract handoff through customer acceptance, owning scope, schedule, cost, and risk while coordinating engineering, software, purchasing, installation, and service teams.

The role demands a proven ability to deliver safe, predictable, and commercially successful outcomes, with emphasis on stakeholder