Remote Industrial Controls Implementation PM

Symbotic LLC; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking an ICS Implementation Project Manager to join the Industrial Controls Program Management team. You will own end-to-end planning, scheduling, and execution of PLC updates across live sites, while coordinating with Site Operations, Engineering, and QA to ensure safe, on-time releases.

Responsibilities include triage intake, backlog hygiene, SLAs in Jira, and enforcing change-management practices to minimize downtime. Up to 25% travel and remote-friendly work are expected.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 the triage and intake process for live-site issues, enhancement requests, and field escalations, ensuring proper backlog hygiene, technical scoping, prioritization, and SLA tracking in Jira.
• Act as the primary cross-functional liaison with Site Operations leads and cross-functional partners to negotiate maintenance windows, rollout schedules, and pre- and post-update verification procedures.
• Enforce rigorous Management of Change protocols, rollback strategies, and operational gating criteria to minimize unplanned operational downtime during controls deployments.
• Establish repeatable planning and release cadences that minimize site disruption and support smooth, predictable rollouts.
• Standardize rollout runbooks, build visibility dashboards, and refine post-release retrospectives to continuously streamline fleetwide controls deployments.
• Coordinate across Controls Engineering, Software Release, software quality assurance, and Site Operations to turn operational requests, maintenance items, and bug fixes into structured, risk-mitigated release windows.]

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Symbotic is seeking an ICS Implementation Project Manager to join the Industrial Controls Program Management team. You will own end-to-end planning, scheduling, and execution of PLC updates across live sites, while coordinating with Site Operations, Engineering, and QA to ensure safe, on-time releases.

Responsibilities include triage intake, backlog hygiene, SLAs in Jira, and enforcing change-management practices to minimize downtime. Up to 25% travel and remote-friendly work are expected.