Remote PLC Controls Deployment Lead

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

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking an IC Implementation Project Manager to join the Industrial Controls Program Management team. The role focuses on scheduling, scoping, and planning PLC update activities across live sites, while coordinating with Site Operations and enforcing Change Management in Jira for controlled releases.

Candidate will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage escalation workflows, and establish repeatable release cadences to minimize site disruption and ensure high performance of the

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.

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 backlog hygiene, 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 verification procedures.
• Enforce rigorous Management of Change protocols, rollback strategies, and gating criteria to minimize downtime during deployments.
• Establish repeatable planning and release cadences that minimize site disruption and support smooth rollouts.
• Standardize rollout runbooks, build dashboards, and refine post-release retrospectives to streamline fleetwide deployments.
• Coordinate across Controls Engineering, Software Release, QA, and Site Operations to translate requests into risk-mitigated release windows.

Skills

Project management

Jira/Confluence

Release coordination

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Symbotic is seeking an IC Implementation Project Manager to join the Industrial Controls Program Management team. The role focuses on scheduling, scoping, and planning PLC update activities across live sites, while coordinating with Site Operations and enforcing Change Management in Jira for controlled releases.

Candidate will drive cross-functional collaboration, manage escalation workflows, and establish repeatable release cadences to minimize site disruption and ensure high performance of the