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This role owns project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, safety coordination, commercial performance, stakeholder alignment, and customer satisfaction. The Sr. Automation PM provides clear leadership across Engineering, Controls, Software, Purchasing, Installation, Commissioning, Finance, Sales, suppliers, subcontractors, and customer teams to deliver safe, predictable, and commercially successful outcomes.\nOVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:\nProject Leadership & Governance\nLead multiple concurrent automation projects or one highly complex program with full accountability for delivery results. \nCreate and maintain the project execution plan, governance cadence, responsibility assignments, decision log, action log, and communication plan. \nLead internal kickoff, customer kickoff, recurring project reviews, executive updates, recovery meetings, and lessons learned sessions. \nEstablish clear priorities, ownership, and due dates across cross functional teams, suppliers, and subcontractors. \nMentor Project Managers and Project Coordinators and provide practical guidance on project controls, customer communication, and issue resolution. \nEscalate material risks, missed commitments, and decisions requiring leadership support with facts, impact, options, and a recommended path forward. \nScope, Contract, and Commercial Management\nOwn the baseline scope and confirm alignment among the customer contract, proposal, specifications, drawings, assumptions, exclusions, schedule, and acceptance criteria. \nIdentify scope gaps, interface risks, and conflicting requirements before they affect execution. \nMaintain disciplined change control, including documentation of scope, cost, schedule, risk, approval status, and customer authorization before work proceeds when contractually required. \nMonitor project financial performance, including budget, forecast, commitments, contingency, cash flow, billing milestones, margin exposure, and cost to complete. \nPartner with Finance and the Project Coordinator to support accurate and timely invoicing, payment milestone tracking, and project financial reporting. \nMonitor contractual obligations, notices, deliverables, warranties, liquidated damages exposure, and acceptance requirements in coordination with leadership and appropriate business partners. \nSupport commercial negotiations and claims with complete records, objective impact analysis, and clear recommendations. \nSchedule and Resource Management\nDevelop, baseline, and maintain an integrated project schedule covering design, approvals, procurement, fabrication, delivery, installation, controls, software, testing, training, commissioning, acceptance, and closeout. \nValidate logic, dependencies, critical path, resource needs, customer prerequisites, supplier commitments, and recovery options. \nCoordinate resource plans with functional leaders and identify capacity conflicts early. \nMeasure progress against the approved baseline, document variance, and lead corrective or recovery planning when milestones are at risk. \nProvide reliable schedule updates to internal stakeholders, customers, suppliers, and leadership. \nTechnical Integration and Execution\nCoordinate mechanical, electrical, controls, software, information technology, network, equipment, rack, conveyor, robotics, and building interfaces across the complete solution. \nEnsure design reviews, submittals, approvals, requirements, interface documents, and working drawings are completed and distributed to the correct stakeholders. \nFacilitate clarification of functional requirements, control narratives, software requirements, operating concepts, rate assumptions, and acceptance criteria. \nMaintain working knowledge of warehouse automation technologies such as conveyor and sortation, automated storage and retrieval systems, shuttles, automated guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, robotics, warehouse control systems, and warehouse execution systems. \nCoordinate site readiness, delivery sequencing, installation access, utilities, network availability, customer dependencies, and operational constraints. \nLead integration planning across suppliers so that responsibilities, data exchanges, interfaces, and testing ownership are clear. \nRisk, Quality, Safety, and Compliance\nCreate and maintain the project risk and opportunity register with owners, mitigation actions, due dates, financial exposure, and escalation thresholds. \nLead issue resolution and root cause reviews for significant quality, performance, schedule, and integration problems. \nCoordinate project quality planning, inspections, punch lists, nonconformance resolution, documentation, and verification of corrective actions. \nPromote a strong safety culture and coordinate with site leadership, customers, suppliers, and subcontractors to confirm applicable safety plans, training, permits, and site requirements are addressed. \nStop or escalate work when unsafe conditions, unapproved scope, or material delivery risks are identified. \nMaintain project records in accordance with company requirements and applicable contract obligations. \nInstallation, Testing, Commissioning, and Acceptance\nCoordinate construction and installation activities with the site team, customer, suppliers, and subcontractors. \nLead readiness reviews for installation, power on, controls checkout, software integration, factory testing, site testing, performance testing, training, go live, and acceptance. \nConfirm test plans trace to contractual requirements and define prerequisites, responsibilities, evidence, issue handling, and retest expectations. \nManage commissioning priorities, daily constraints, punch items, defect resolution, and customer communication during critical site phases. \nPrepare and execute customer acceptance activities and secure required approvals and completion documentation. \nCoordinate operational handoff, training, spare parts, as built documentation, warranties, open item ownership, and transition to After Sales Service. \nCustomer, Supplier, and Stakeholder Management\nServe as the primary project management contact for the customer throughout execution. \nBuild trusted relationships through clear expectations, timely communication, accurate reporting, and consistent follow through. \nLead supplier and subcontractor performance reviews covering scope, schedule, quality, safety, documentation, change control, and corrective actions. \nPartner with Purchasing on supplier selection, award support, purchase order alignment, and performance management. \nCoordinate with Sales on customer commitments, commercial strategy, account relationships, and future opportunities while protecting approved project scope. \nCommunicate difficult information directly and professionally while preserving constructive working relationships. \nReporting and Project Controls\nProvide concise weekly project updates to internal and external teams and monthly reporting to leadership. \nReport overall status, project health, completed work, upcoming milestones, financial outlook, critical path, major risks, decisions, dependencies, changes, customer actions, supplier actions, and leadership attention items. \nMaintain accurate schedules, meeting records, action logs, risk registers, decision logs, change logs, forecasts, and document repositories. \nUse project data to identify trends, challenge unsupported assumptions, and drive timely decisions. \nEnsure project documentation is complete, current, traceable, and ready for customer acceptance, audit, warranty support, and closeout. \nKNOWLEDGE & SKILL REQUIREMENTS:\nFive or more years of project management experience delivering material handling, warehouse automation, industrial automation, or other complex engineered systems. \nDemonstrated ownership of projects through design, procurement, installation, integration, commissioning, acceptance, and closeout. \nWorking knowledge of mechanical equipment, electrical systems, controls, software, networks, and system interfaces within an automation environment. \nExperience managing contracts, scope, change control, schedules, budgets, forecasts, suppliers, subcontractors, risks, and customer expectations. \nAbility to read and interpret technical specifications, contracts, schedules, layouts, and CAD drawings. \nAdvanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and SharePoint or comparable project platforms. \nStrong written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and executive communication skills. \nAbility to travel overnight and work outside standard business hours when required by installation, testing, commissioning, or customer operations. \nAbility to work effectively in office, remote, warehouse, construction, and active customer operating environments.\nBachelor degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, computer science, construction management, supply chain, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. \nProject Management Professional certification or comparable project management credential. \nExperience acting as a general contractor, systems integrator, or prime supplier on turnkey automation projects. \nExperience with conveyor and sortation, automated storage and retrieval systems, shuttles, robotics, automated guided vehicles, autonomous mobile robots, warehouse control systems, or warehouse execution systems. \nExperience with schedule recovery, claims support, troubled project stabilization, and executive customer communication. \nOSHA 30 training or comparable construction safety training. \nExperience coaching Project Managers or leading project teams without direct authority. \nPROFESSIONAL QUALITIES:\nOwnership: Accepts accountability, follows through, and makes sound decisions. \nCommercial Judgment: Balances customer needs, contract obligations, cost, margin, and long term relationships \nStructured Execution: Creates practical plans, maintains controls, and converts ambiguity into clear action. \nTechnical Curiosity: Asks 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