Automation Project Manager- Life Sciences

About Us:

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients.

Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries.

By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3billion organization with nearly 12000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Who You’ll Work With You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1600 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world‑class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as an Automation Project Manager, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will partner with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject‑matter experts to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.

• Automation Project Leadership & Execution Accountability
  Serve as the single point of accountability for integrated automation execution for the project, spanning multiple process and utility systems. Lead end‑to‑end delivery of the automation scope from design through implementation, qualification, startup, and handover. Maintain clear separation of accountabilities: system owners retain technical authority, while the automation project manager owns delivery, integration and performance against schedule and cost. Drive execution across multiple vendors, system integrators, system owners, and internal teams without direct authority.
• System Owner Integration & Collaboration
  Partner closely with automation system owners and process system owners to integrate technical system requirements into the overall project execution plan. Ensure system owner inputs are incorporated into design, build, test, and hand‑over activities without fragmenting execution accountability. Facilitate timely technical decision‑making by system owners to support project milestones and risk mitigation. Resolve conflicts between system‑level optimization and overall project delivery objectives.
• Automation Scope Definition & Integration
  Define and manage automation execution scope, sequencing, and interfaces across multiple cross‑functions. Ensure alignment between automation design, process intent, system owner standards, CQV strategy, and operational readiness. Coordinate system integration across DCS, PLCs, MES interfaces, batch records, data historians, and site infrastructure. Manage dependencies between automation, equipment procurement, installation and construction readiness.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance
  Establish and operate automation governance aligned with overall project governance and system ownership models. Identify, assess and proactively mitigate automation execution risks impacting schedule, quality, or…