Job uisition: 56744
Company: STERIS Corporation
Location:Conroe, Texas, United States
Employment type:full time Category:
Manufacturing Operations Industry: ""Salary: USD 95000 - 158250
Posted:
Position Summary
The Project Manager, Automation is responsible for leading the execution of automation projects that support manufacturing process improvements, capacity expansion, quality improvement, labor optimization, and new product introductions.
This role owns the project management discipline for assigned automation initiatives, including project schedule, day-to-day coordination, risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies management, budget tracking, stakeholder communication, and execution from concept through production handoff.
The position partners closely with facility leaders, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Finance, EHS, and external automation integrators without direct authority to ensure projects are properly scoped, planned, resourced, executed, validated, and transferred into production; and ensures assigned projects follow Global Operations PMO methodology, governance, reporting, and Smartsheet requirements
The ideal candidate combines strong project management capability with solid technical knowledge of automation systems and manufacturing technologies, enabling effective coordination of core teams, integrators, and facility resources to deliver safe, reliable, compliant, and sustainable automation solutions.
Duties
Manages assigned automation projects from concept development through design, build, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, installation, validation, production transfer, and project closure.Develops, maintains, and communicates detailed project schedules, including milestones, deliverables, dependencies, critical path items, resource needs, decision points, and recovery plans.Coordinates day-to-day project execution with facility teams, cross-functional core teams, external automation integrators, equipment suppliers, and internal stakeholders to maintain project momentum and accountability.Owns and manages the project RAID process, including risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies; drives timely mitigation, escalation, decision making, and resolution.Partners with facilities to define project scope, operational requirements, process readiness, layout needs, utilities, tooling, staffing impacts, equipment interfaces, training needs, and production handoff requirements.Supports development and refinement of user requirement specifications, project charters, business cases, implementation plans, validation strategies, technical documentation, and change control activities.Works with the assigned Automation Director, integrators, and technical stakeholders to ensure automation solutions follow approved standards, domain architecture, safety expectations, quality requirements, and business objectives.Tracks project budget, purchase orders, capital spending, forecast updates, cost risks, scope changes, and financial performance in partnership with Finance, Procurement, and facility leadership.Coordinates design reviews, safety reviews, equipment reviews, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, punch list closure, and ramp-up readiness activities.Leads project reporting and closure activities, including status updates, action item tracking, lessons learned, benefit realization tracking, final documentation, and transition to sustaining ownership.Required Experience
7-10 years of experience with a bachelor’s degreeManufacturing engineering, automation engineering, capital project execution, technical project management, or related industrial experience. Managing technical…
