Remote Project Director — Enterprise Automation Delivery

FORTNA; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FORTNA seeks a Project Director to lead senior delivery for high-value automation programs across U.S. sites. This enterprise-level role combines executive stakeholder engagement, multi-site coordination, and strong delivery leadership to ensure successful execution and customer satisfaction.

The position is remote with travel. Responsibilities include end-to-end project execution, financial stewardship, and cross-functional leadership across engineering, software, and operations, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or international equivalent).
• 8+ years of experience in program management, project delivery, or supply chain/automation leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary customer-facing leader for a major, high-value project site, ensuring alignment on execution priorities, expectations, risks, and outcomes.
• Build and maintain trusted working relationships with customer project leaders, site leadership, and key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Act as the voice of the customer within the project team while maintaining appropriate boundaries, scope discipline, accountability, and commercial alignment.
• Lead regular customer communication, including project updates, issue resolution, escalation management, schedule reviews, and performance discussions.
• Partner with internal leaders to support customer confidence, project transparency, and timely resolution of critical issues.
• Own end-to-end execution of a large, complex customer project site, typically exceeding $60M in value.
• Lead all phases of project delivery from transition out of solution design through installation, commissioning, testing, go-live, and project closeout.
• Manage project scope, budget, schedule, risks, resources, contractual obligations, and customer commitments.
• Coordinate across project managers, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, installation, software, controls, safety, and commissioning teams to ensure integrated execution.
• Anticipate and proactively address operational, technical, customer, and site-level challenges in a complex, high-visibility environment.
• Ensure successful delivery of integrated solutions, which may include MHE, robotics, controls, WCS/WMS, software, and other automation technologies.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to a matrixed project team across multiple functions, disciplines, and workstreams.
• Set clear priorities, expectations, timelines, and accountability across internal and external project stakeholders.
• Drive alignment between project teams, functional leaders, vendors, subcontractors, and customer representatives.
• Mentor and support project managers and site-level leaders to strengthen execution discipline, ownership, and issue resolution.
• Promote a culture of safety, urgency, transparency, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive project financial performance through disciplined forecasting, cost management, margin protection, change management, and risk mitigation.
• Monitor project performance against budget, schedule, margin, cash flow, and contractual milestones.
• Identify scope changes, cost risks, schedule impacts, and customer-driven changes; partner with commercial and functional leaders to ensure appropriate documentation and resolution.
• Lead project-level risk mitigation planning and decision-making across complex dependencies and competing priorities.
• Escalate critical risks, trade-offs, and decisions in a timely and fact-based manner.
• Align project execution with customer business objectives, contractual commitments, and FORTNA delivery standards.
• Partner with Sales, Solution Design, Engineering, Delivery, Software, and Operations teams to ensure a seamless transition from design to execution.
• Drive value engineering, cost optimization, schedule recovery, and performance improvements without compromising safety, quality, or customer outcomes.
• Ensure project governance, reporting, documentation, and communication practices support disciplined execution and informed decision-making.
• Apply supply chain automation and large-scale implementation best practices to improve project delivery, customer experience, and business results.

Skills

Project leadership

Multi-site coordination

Customer relationship management

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Leadership presence

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

8+ years experience in program management

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Project Management Tools

Job description

FORTNA seeks a Project Director to lead senior delivery for high-value automation programs across U.S. sites. This enterprise-level role combines executive stakeholder engagement, multi-site coordination, and strong delivery leadership to ensure successful execution and customer satisfaction.

The position is remote with travel. Responsibilities include end-to-end project execution, financial stewardship, and cross-functional leadership across engineering, software, and operations, ensuring