Automation Project Manager – Controls & PLC/SCADA Delivery

Samuel Frank; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Samuel Frank is seeking an experienced Automation Project Manager to lead controls and automation projects from scoping through to handover from its Cheshire office. You will drive technical delivery, coordinate software and engineering teams, manage budgets and payments, and maintain strong customer relationships across process, utilities, manufacturing and nuclear sectors.

The role emphasizes delivering complex automation programmes, FAT approvals, installation and commissioning, with a bias

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering controls, automation or systems integration projects.
• Technical understanding of industrial control systems, ideally PLC/SCADA.
• Experience managing projects through full lifecycle from scope and design through FAT, installation and handover.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercially aware with experience managing project budgets, costs, stage payments and contractual obligations.
• Comfortable coordinating engineering resources, schedules, priorities and project deliverables.
• Background within a systems integrator, automation business or engineering solutions provider.
• APM, PRINCE2 or similar Project Management qualification advantageous.
• Full UK driving licence and able to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Commercial and technical responsibility for the successful delivery of automation and control system projects.
• Manage customer requirements, project scope, engineering deliverables, budgets and timescales.
• Coordinate Controls, Software and wider engineering resources throughout each project.
• Monitor project costs, stage payments and commercial performance.
• Identify project risks and resolve technical, commercial and delivery issues.
• Support projects through FAT, installation, commissioning and final handover.
• Deliver projects across a varied blue-chip customer base within the process, utilities, manufacturing and nuclear sectors.

Skills

Controls projects

Automation

Systems integration

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Engineering lifecycle

Risk management

Resource coordination

Technical coordination

Education

APM/PRINCE2 qualification

Tools

APM/PRINCE2

Job description

Samuel Frank is seeking an experienced Automation Project Manager to lead controls and automation projects from scoping through to handover from its Cheshire office. You will drive technical delivery, coordinate software and engineering teams, manage budgets and payments, and maintain strong customer relationships across process, utilities, manufacturing and nuclear sectors.

The role emphasizes delivering complex automation programmes, FAT approvals, installation and commissioning, with a bias