Industrial Project Manager

Transition Technologies PSC; Białystok, Zielona Góra, Wrocław, Łódź; Remote; PLN 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Transition Technologies PSC in Poland seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead IT/OT manufacturing projects end-to-end, including planning, budgeting, risk management, and reporting. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams across plants and regions, align with production schedules, and ensure documentation and client approvals are completed.

You will manage Fixed Price and T&M contracts, handle Change Requests, travel up to 50%, and collaborate with Sales on proposals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Project Manager in IT/OT manufacturing projects (MES/SCADA/IIoT).
• Experience delivering projects in live manufacturing environments, across plants or internationally.
• Good understanding of production orders, recipes, OEE, maintenance, quality and genealogy.
• Experience with Fixed Price projects and Change Requests.
• Excellent client communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects end-to-end: planning, WBS, schedule, budget, risks and reporting.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of architects, developers, automation engineers and data scientists.
• Plan activities around production schedules, shutdowns, testing on live lines, FAT/SAT, commissioning and hypercare.
• Ensure project documentation and client approvals are completed.
• Coordinate transition to support and maintenance (SLA, SM).
• Identify opportunities for further cooperation and rollouts; support proposals.

Skills

End-to-end project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budgeting

Vendor coordination

English communication

Travel readiness

Education

PM certification (PMP/Prince2/IPMA)

Bachelor's in Engineering/IT

Tools

MS Project

Jira

MES/SCADA tools

Job description

• Manage projects end-to-end: planning, WBS, schedule, budget, risks and reporting.
• Manage scope in Fixed Price and T&M projects, including Change Requests and their estimation.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of architects, developers, automation engineers and data scientists.
• Plan project activities around production schedules, shutdowns, testing on live production lines, FAT/SAT, commissioning and hypercare.
• Ensure project documentation and client approvals are completed.
• Coordinate the transition to support and maintenance (SLA, SM).
• Build relationships with clients at project, plant and regional/group levels.
• Conduct regular project reviews, clearly communicating progress, risks and dependencies.
• Identify opportunities for further cooperation, such as rollouts, scope extensions, support and new use cases.
• Cooperate with Sales and Presales on follow-up proposals, scope and estimations.
• Ensure delivered projects can become client references.

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project Manager in IT/OT manufacturing projects (MES, SCADA, IIoT, ERP-production integration, automation or similar).
• Experience delivering projects in live manufacturing environments, preferably across multiple plants or internationally.
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes: production orders, recipes, OEE, maintenance, quality and genealogy.
• Basic understanding of PLC/SCADA, OPC UA/MQTT, MES, ERP/SAP and data platforms.
• Experience with Fixed Price projects and Change Requests.
• Ability to handle difficult client discussions regarding scope, deadlines and costs while maintaining a good relationship.
• Proven experience in developing and expanding client cooperation.
• Very good English.
• Willingness to travel to client production sites in Europe, up to 50%.

• Experience with Ignition, ThingWorx, Kepware, Proficy or other MES/IIoT platforms.
• Experience with ML/predictive maintenance projects in manufacturing.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or IPMA certification.
• Experience working on the client side in the manufacturing industry.