Senior Automation Program Manager

Connors & Associates; United States; In loco; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Connors Group in the US seeks a Senior Project Manager, Automation to lead multiple consulting engagements across the US and internationally. You will drive client delivery, maintain SOWs, and grow practice by building trusted-advisor relationships.

You will coordinate facility design, MHE, systems integration, and WMS/WCS/WES implementations, managing scope, schedule, cost, risk, and go-live readiness to ensure on-time launches.

Competenze

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years’ experience in a consulting role having led and managed client engagements across multiple industries.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; ability to drive deadlines on multiple projects.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex, multi-workstream facility, construction, automation, or supply-chain technology implementations, ideally through go-live.
• Experience with critical-path scheduling and dependency management using MS Project or Smartsheet; familiarity with Procore or comparable construction coordination tools.
• Experience maintaining RAID/dependency registers, change-order controls, and project or capital-budget forecasts.
• Working familiarity with warehouse automation and material-handling systems, including conveyors, sorters, and AS/RS, and with WMS/WCS/WES interfaces; able to coordinate technical stakeholders without substituting for engineering or systems-integration expertise.
• Experience coordinating general contractors, systems integrators, and multiple vendor or client contracts.
• PMP or CAPM preferred; facility or construction project-management training is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of Project Manager standards and approach to managing project budgets, travel expense policy, and travel coordination.

Mansioni

• Serves as Project Manager for multiple projects - responsible for daily leadership, project management and expertise on project teams.
• Responsible for understanding a project’s deliverables and statement of work and responsible for articulating those details to the project team.
• Leads or coordinates multiple concurrent facility implementation workstreams, aligning facility design, construction, equipment procurement and installation, systems integration, WMS/WCS/WES delivery, and operations readiness.
• Builds and maintains an integrated, critical-path schedule; tracks dependencies, float, milestones, and near-term decisions; and works with owners to resolve issues before they affect installation, testing, or go-live.
• Coordinates client leaders, general contractors, construction teams, systems integrators, IT, operations, HR, and other vendors.
• Reviews facility layouts, equipment specifications, MHE sequencing, automation integration points, and relevant electrical and controls requirements with qualified client and vendor experts; identifies coordination gaps and escalates technical decisions to accountable specialists.
• Maintains formal risk, action, issue, and dependency tracking, as well as change-order and budget records.
• Tracks client-side capital costs, commitments, contingency, and forecast changes in coordination with the client’s finance and procurement leads.
• Driving date discipline across the program, communicates the operational and financial implications of milestone changes, and supports mitigation and contingency planning.
• Reports program status clearly to executive and working teams, including schedule confidence, critical-path risks, cost and change exposure, decisions required, and readiness for launch.
• Plans and coordinates testing, commissioning, training, cutover, and operations-readiness activities so facility, equipment, systems, and teams are prepared for go-live.
• Leads multiple projects and large engagements and earns the respect of clients as an expert consultant.
• Develops a clear understanding of each client’s business and how our services can benefit operations.
• Coordinates complex, interdependent workstreams and communicates critical-path status, dependencies, risks, decisions, and forecast impacts clearly.
• Uses structured project controls, including integrated schedules, formal RAID/dependency registers, change tracking, and budget forecasts.
• Works effectively across executive sponsors, client functional teams, general contractors, systems integrators, and other vendors.
• Demonstrates working familiarity with facility design, construction sequencing, warehouse automation, MHE, and WMS/WCS/WES interfaces.
• Develops comprehensive presentations at the appropriate level of detail.
• Effectively acts as a technical expert and technical leader and leads complex analytical work.
• Demonstrates initiative, responsibility, and analytical thinking.
• Effectively writes technical summaries to explain your work.
• Demonstrates strong Excel-based abilities, use of regression analysis and other data-mining techniques.
• Flexibility to work alternative hours, including evenings and weekends.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Client engagement

Team leadership

Formazione

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Business

Strumenti

MS Project

Smartsheet

Procore

WMS/WCS/WES interfaces

Descrizione del lavoro

Connors Group in the US seeks a Senior Project Manager, Automation to lead multiple consulting engagements across the US and internationally. You will drive client delivery, maintain SOWs, and grow practice by building trusted-advisor relationships.

You will coordinate facility design, MHE, systems integration, and WMS/WCS/WES implementations, managing scope, schedule, cost, risk, and go-live readiness to ensure on-time launches.