← All roles

Technical Program Manager, Industrial Controls, R&D

Symbotic· Industrial Controls
Apply on company site
Hybrid (USA Remote & Travel)$144k - $211.2kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Technical Program Manager to lead Industrial Controls workstreams for strategic customer NPI programs, coordinating engineering, product, manufacturing, suppliers, and operations to deliver production-ready automation systems on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end Industrial Controls workstream execution for strategic customer NPI programs, managing multiple concurrent projects from design through NPI readiness and launch support.
  • Establish, organize, and rigorously maintain workstream budgets, scope baselines, integrated master schedules, and program plans using Microsoft Project and Jira.
  • Own relationships with external controls vendors and systems integrators, including scope alignment, SOW governance, milestone tracking, deliverable verification, and executive escalations.
  • Build and actively manage risk registers covering technical, vendor, manufacturing, schedule, and financial risks; drive mitigations to closure and escalate early when baselines are at risk.
  • Coordinate across Product, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Internal Tools Software, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Field Operations to keep each workstream tightly synchronized.
  • Lead technical reviews, design reviews, gate reviews, and executive status reviews, providing clear, data-driven reporting to program leadership, executive stakeholders, and customer-facing teams.
  • Support prototype builds, engineering validation, system integration, manufacturing readiness, FAT/SAT activities, pilot builds, site commissioning, engineering change control, BOM releases, and configuration management.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 8 years of related experience or equivalent work experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, including Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Systems, Software, or a related field.
  • Proven experience delivering complex, multidisciplinary electro-mechanical, robotics, automation, or industrial systems through the full NPI lifecycle.
  • Demonstrated success taking complex hardware and software systems from concept through design validation, prototype builds, FAT/SAT, pilot lines, and production scale-up.
  • Experience owning workstream budgets, scope baselines, integrated master schedules, and active risk registers, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office.
  • Strong experience managing external vendors, suppliers, and systems integrators, including SOWs, milestones, performance tracking, deliverable verification, and escalations.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional engineering teams and resource managers without direct authority, supported by strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills. Familiarity with Rockwell Automation and Studio 5000, Beckhoff, Siemens, industrial safety systems, or warehouse automation is preferred.

Skills

Required:End-to-end program managementBudget and scheduling managementVendor and systems integrator managementRisk managementCross-functional coordination

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • PTO and/or other benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Symbotic

REINVENT THE WAREHOUSE. REIMAGINE THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

Symbotic Solutions are complete, end-to-end warehouse automation solutions that have the power to increase your facility’s capacity through dense storage, maximize throughput with streamlined operations, and create efficiency gains throughout your supply chain with AI-enhanced software that sees beyond your warehouse walls.

AI & SoftwareAI SoftwareAll IndustriesCase HandlingEnd-to-end SolutionsIndustrial AutomationMicro-FulfillmentRobotics
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Symbotic