Robotics Project Manager

Role: Robotics Project Manager

Location: Remote

Duration: 24months

Required Experience and Skills

• Demonstrated experience evaluating, implementing, or supporting industrial robotics and automation deployments in operating brownfield manufacturing, logistics, laboratory, or similar environments. Experience limited to greenfield design, demonstrations, research, or simulation is not sufficient on its own.
• Ability to independently structure and drive work across multiple stakeholders, manage ambiguity, surface decisions, and move projects toward measurable outcomes.
• Experience translating workflows and operational needs into requirements, scopes of work, vendor deliverables, and implementation plans.
• Experience managing system integrators, equipment suppliers, engineering firms, or other external technical delivery partners.
• Strong working knowledge of industrial robotics and automation technologies, including their capabilities, limitations, and common failure modes in existing facilities. Must be able to assess application fit and deployment risk across industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, machine vision, material handling, end-of-arm tooling, safety systems, controls, and interfaces with legacy equipment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to work credibly across technical and non-technical functions and with both site and global teams.
• Comfort working in a contract role that requires hands-on ownership of defined deliverables, rapid integration into an existing team, and independent execution within the established strategic direction.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, food, chemical, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with GMP, validation, quality systems, or regulated project documentation, including IQ/OQ/PQ where applicable.
• Prior experience as an end user, system integrator, automation supplier, applications engineer, technical program manager, or automation consultant.
• Experience supporting opportunity assessments or early project definition in addition to project execution.
• Exposure to deployments across multiple sites or business units and to solutions intended for reuse or scale.

What This Role Is Not

• It is not a hands-on robot programming or detailed machine design position, but it does require firsthand understanding of the realities and limitations of deploying robotics in existing brownfield operations.
• It is not an open-ended strategy consulting role; overall strategy and priorities are established by the Robotics Director and global robotics team.
• It is not limited to a single robot brand or technology. The focus is selecting and delivering the right automation solution for the operational need.