Ignition & OT Manufacturing PM Lead – 12+ Month Contract

Wright Technical Services; Euclid (OH); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Wright Technical Services seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager (contract) to lead the Ignition implementation across multi-site manufacturing operations. You will own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder management from initiation to closeout, coordinating with IT, OT, and a system integrator.

This role requires hands-on PM governance, environment setup, historian selection, and site rollout, with travel as needed. Hybrid work in Cleveland, OH preferred.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience implementing Ignition (Inductive Automation) in manufacturing settings.
• Strong foundation in scope, schedule, budget, resource, risk, and change management across full lifecycle.
• Experience running formal PM governance with integrated project plans, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
• 8–10+ years IT/OT project management delivering manufacturing technology implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Ignition implementation across multiple sites from planning to go-live.
• Develop and maintain project scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and RAID logs.
• Coordinate setup of Ignition dev/QA/prod environments and historian deployment.
• Manage external system integrators and vendors to deliver on a defined SOW.
• Facilitate stakeholder sessions and provide concise executive reporting.

Skills

Ignition implementation

Project management

Stakeholder management

PM governance

PM tools

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Azure DevOps

Planner

Job description

Wright Technical Services seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager (contract) to lead the Ignition implementation across multi-site manufacturing operations. You will own scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder management from initiation to closeout, coordinating with IT, OT, and a system integrator.

This role requires hands-on PM governance, environment setup, historian selection, and site rollout, with travel as needed. Hybrid work in Cleveland, OH preferred.