Remote Industrial Controls Implementation Project Manager

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

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Project Manager to lead Industrial Controls implementation across live sites. This role focuses on planning PLC updates, coordinating with Site Operations, and driving Jira-based triage and release processes.

You will collaborate with Controls Engineering, Software Release, QA, and Site Operations to minimize downtime and ensure predictable rollouts. Remote with up to 25% travel, bachelor’s in engineering preferred.

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.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Systems, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical technical experience.
• Familiarity with industrial PLC platforms, including Rockwell Automation Studio 5000, 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

Jira

Confluence

Release coordination

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Rockwell Studio 5000

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Project Manager to lead Industrial Controls implementation across live sites. This role focuses on planning PLC updates, coordinating with Site Operations, and driving Jira-based triage and release processes.

You will collaborate with Controls Engineering, Software Release, QA, and Site Operations to minimize downtime and ensure predictable rollouts. Remote with up to 25% travel, bachelor’s in engineering preferred.