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Project Manager, Industrial Controls Implementation

Symbotic· Industrial Controls Program Management
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Hybrid (USA Remote)$116.3k - $170.5kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Project Manager responsible for planning, scheduling, and executing industrial controls (PLC) updates and releases across live sites; coordinates live-site operations, triage, and Jira-driven processes to ensure stable, high-performing automation across Symbotic’s customer sites.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end planning, scheduling, and execution roadmap for industrial controls (PLC) updates, hotfixes, and sustaining releases across live operational sites.
  • Facilitate the triage and intake process for live-site issues, enhancement requests, and field escalations, ensuring backlog hygiene, technical scoping, prioritization, and SLA tracking in Jira.
  • Act as the primary cross-functional liaison with Site Operations leads and cross-functional partners to negotiate maintenance windows, rollout schedules, and pre- and post-update verification procedures.
  • Enforce rigorous Management of Change protocols, rollback strategies, and operational gating criteria to minimize unplanned downtime during controls deployments.
  • Establish repeatable planning and release cadences that minimize site disruption and support smooth, predictable rollouts.
  • Standardize rollout runbooks, build visibility dashboards, and refine post-release retrospectives to streamline fleetwide controls deployments.
  • Coordinate across Controls Engineering, Software Release, software quality assurance, and Site Operations to convert operational requests, maintenance items, and bug fixes into structured, risk-mitigated release windows.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in project engineering, release coordination, or project management within industrial automation, robotics, warehouse automation, or complex electromechanical systems.
  • Advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence for intake workflows, triage facilitation, sprint and release tracking, and cross-functional reporting.
  • Proven experience coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder release schedules, site maintenance windows, and structured change management protocols.
  • Exceptional communication and organizational skills, with ability to align engineering, software QA, and 24/7 site operations teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Systems, or Computer Science) or equivalent practical technical experience.
  • Practical experience or familiarity with industrial PLC platforms (e.g., Rockwell Automation Studio 5000), controls commissioning, systems integration, Agile methodologies, or formal project management frameworks is preferred.

Skills

Required:Planning and schedulingJira and ConfluenceChange managementCommunication and stakeholder alignment

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.

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