Site Installation Manager

Symbotic LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic LLC is seeking a Site Installation Manager to lead the installation of Structural systems, racking, and automated equipment at customer sites. You will coordinate with multi-discipline teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with zero defects through commissioning and testing for the operations team.

This highly visible role interacts across all departments, including executive management, and requires approximately 80% travel to active customer locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years experience in integration, construction management, or automation installation.
• Minimum 3 years experience supervising or managing teams, trades contractors.
• Ability to travel up to 80%.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead site specific RFIs.
• Receive, elevate, and respond to all contractor and vendor RFIs in accordance with process SLAs.
• Maintain daily site installation progress and commissioning readiness through the GPR tool.
• Maintain and manage Site Bulletins to ensure site contractors and vendors understand the scope of work for engineering bulletins.
• Lead contractors and vendors to deliver quality by completing 650 Checklists.
• Verify and document missing material validation requests with root cause analysis.
• Support FCR validation for site efforts, assessing validity, requirements, and costs before PO issuance.
• Assist in demobilization of installation resources and materials after mechanical and electrical scope completion.

Skills

Negotiation

Data analysis

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Who we are

With its A.I.-powered robotic technology platform, Symbotic is changing the way consumer goods move through the supply chain. Intelligent software orchestrates advanced robots in a high-density, end-to-end system - reinventing warehouse automation for increased efficiency, speed and flexibility.

What we need

The Installation Manager will work with multi-discipline contractors, commissioning technicians, design engineering, project management, and testing teams to lead the overall installation of both structural systems, racking, and automated equipment on customer sites. The Site Installation Manager primary goal is to ensure the system is installed in a timely manner, within budget, and delivered without defect through commissioning and testing to the operations team. This position will be a highly visible role and interact with all departments and levels across the company including executive management. This is a high-travel, site-based role requiring approximately 80% of travel throughout the year. The Site Installation Manager is expected to work primarily at active customer installation sites for the duration of the project.

What we do

The Site Installation team oversees the installation of Symbotic automation systems on customer sites. They are responsible for ensuring the systems are installed as designed and at a high quality on schedule and under budget. This group will partner very closely with the Symbotic PM and commissioning team.

What you’ll do

• Manage and lead site specific Requests for Information (RFIs)
• Receive, elevate, and respond to all contractor and vendor RFIs in accordance with process SLAs.
• Manage and update Golden Prerequisite (GPR)- Maintain daily site installation progress and commissioning readiness through the GPR tool.
• Maintain and manage Site Bulletins to ensure site contractors and vendors understand the detail and scope of work for engineering bulletins, maintain bulletin matrix, validate work completion.
• Manage and lead and validate contractors and vendors deliver quality by 650 Checklists.
• Monitor and ensure that all missing material request validation requested from site are verified, recorded properly, and documented in the missing material matrix along with a root cause.
• Support Field Change Request (FCR) Validation for site efforts in reviewing and assessing the validity of site FCRs along with the resource requirements and cost before project management issuance of purchase orders.
• Upon the completion of Mechanical and Electrical installation scope, support the site team in the demobilization of all installation resources and materials.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or related field required
• Minimum of 7 years trade experience in integration, construction management, or automation installation required
• Minimum 3 years experience supervising or managing teams, trades contractors
• Experience with industrial/robotic automation projects and ASRS projects
• Good negotiation and relationship skills, both in directing the technical team and ability to manage and reach solutions to competing priorities
• Experience with using metrics and data analysis to drive process improvements
• Ability to provide critical technical thinking at the team level to trigger appropriate discussions around requirements, design, and process challenges that the team may face
• Ability to travel up to 80%

Our Environment

Hybrid, travel-based position. Access to major airport preferred. Travel is required up to 80% of the time. Employee must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations. Our main office is in Wilmington, MA. The person taking this position will be required to perform work at our customer installation locations for extended periods of time where equipment is installed and ready for commissioning. The employee is responsible to own a credit card and manage expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis. The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee is routinely required to work at heights of up to 45 feet and within restrictive areas of 24 inches to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Must comply with all safety requirements and protocols, including without limitation Lock out tag out safety protocols and fall protection safety protocols. Approximately 80% of time will be spent on a construction site with PPE required (hard hat, safety vest, steel toes, eyeglasses, ear protection, fall protection (e.g., safety harness). There will be steep stairs to climb into the structure. You may be required to routinely walk up and down stairs to navigate the automation structure. You will regularly be near railings that are high off the ground. Subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily temperature changes. Must be capable of working in temperatures ranging from 105° to 32° Fahrenheit.

About Symbotic

Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world’s largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies. Applying next-gen technology, high-density storage and machine learning to solve today's complex distribution challenges, Symbotic enables companies to move goods with unmatched speed, agility, accuracy and efficiency. As the backbone of commerce the Symbotic platform transforms the flow of goods and the economics of supply chain for its customers. For more information, visit www.symbotic.com. We are a community of innovators, collaborators and pioneers who embrace our differences, because we know unique perspectives make us stronger and smarter. Every perspective matters. We depend on the collective voices of our employees, customers and community to help guide us as we build a better place to work – for you and the world. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.

Salary and Benefits

The base range for this position in the posted location is $125,000.00 - $171,600.00 however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The compensation package includes medical, dental, vision, disability, 401K, PTO and/or other benefits.

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