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Robot type
Warehouse and Logistics
Location
USA
Job type
Product
Posted
Oct 29, 2026
Salary
$116,250–$170,500 a year
Full-time

Project Manager, Industrial Controls Implementation

Job description

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.

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.

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.

Job 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 proper 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 operational 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 continuously streamline fleetwide controls deployments.
  • Coordinate across Controls Engineering, Software Release, software quality assurance, and Site Operations to turn operational requests, maintenance items, and bug fixes into structured, risk-mitigated release windows.

Job requirements

  • 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 a demonstrated ability to align engineering, software quality assurance, and 24/7 site operations teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Systems, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical technical experience.
  • Practical experience or familiarity with industrial PLC platforms, including Rockwell Automation Studio 5000, controls commissioning, systems integration, Agile methodologies, or formal project management frameworks is…
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