Automation Project Manager

job summary:
We are seeking an Automation Project Manager to lead multiple simultaneous automation and controls projects with individual values up to $4 million from kickoff through installation and customer acceptance. Based in a leading regional industrial automation solutions unit, this role involves managing project scope, schedules, budgets, and customer communications while coordinating engineering, procurement, fabrication, and installation teams to ensure operational success.

 
location: Birmingham, Alabama
job type: Permanent
salary: $100,000 - 130,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: High School

responsibilities:

• Review proposals, purchase orders, and project requirements to establish project scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and customer commitments.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, and milestone plans while tracking dependencies, identifying risks, and driving corrective actions.
• Track labor, materials, equipment, and outside services against budgets, manage scope changes, and coordinate project billing milestones.
• Serve as the primary project contact for customers, lead project meetings, and coordinate controls, mechanical, and fabrication teams, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Coordinate factory runoffs, acceptance testing, shipping, installation, commissioning, punch list tracking, required documentation, and customer signoff through final acceptance.

qualifications:
At least 3 years of project management or project leadership experience in an industrial, manufacturing, equipment, or related technical environment (5 years preferred).

A degree in engineering, engineering technology, project management, business, or a related field is preferred (relevant industrial and project management experience may substitute for a degree).

Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification is helpful but not required.

Experience with industrial automation, controls, robotics, custom machinery, or systems integration is strongly preferred. Engineering background is helpful.

skills:

Project Management & Scheduling Tools

Budget Management & Cost Forecasting

PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers)

HMIs (Human-Machine Interfaces)

Industrial Automation & Controls

Robotics & Custom Machinery

Electrical & Mechanical Systems

Systems Integration & Commissioning

skills:
Automation,industrial automation,budgets,customer communications,fabrication,procurement,project scope,schedules

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).




This posting is open for thirty (30) days.