Automation Project Manager
Listed on 2026-10-17
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Career Opportunities with Engel Machinery
ENGEL embodies a spirit of innovation, built on decades of experience. With a dynamic workplace, ENGEL is the injection molding industry leader in technological advancements, ensuring sustainable global growth. The ENGEL company history is a success story that we keep on writing everyday together with our employees.
Do you have what it takes to spur game-changing innovation, generate creative solutions and add world-class value to our customers? Then get ready to join the ENGEL team and become part of the next chapter in our history as we continue to grow the business in North America!
ENGEL Machinery North America has a job opportunity for an Automation Project Manager in our Automation Department.
- health, dental and vision insurance all upon first day of hire (no waiting period and very robust coverage at an affordable price)
- 401k with match
- over 3 weeks’ PTO
- employer paid life insurance
- long and short-term disability
- an employee-centric environment
Job Summary:
Maintains, tracks, and organizes projects for custom automation department. Creates and maintains project schedules. Coordinates with internal and external vendors and service providers to ensure timely execution of all project phases.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Creates project schedules and tracks against the key milestones. Investigates when critical dates are missed and work with the operations team to and update schedule.
- Effectively utilize resource pool for realistic schedules
- Leads conversations with suppliers, with technical support from operations.
- Contribute to project kickoff and weekly production meetings
- Maintain regular communication paths with customer, internal automation team, and other ENGEL teams as needed. Via status meetings with notes, LOPs, schedule updates.
- Act as technical representative for FATs including tracking performance and organizing post-test summary
- Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned by a supervisor.
- Minimum 2 year Associates Degree in technical field
- Minimum four (4) years’ experience working as a project manager on technical projects similar to Automation and Robotic Systems
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office with good document control skills
- Knowledge of Project Worx, MS Project or equivalent project planning software
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and exercise sound professional judgment
- Good time management skills – ability to handle several projects at once
- Proactive mindset to anticipate customer/team needs, address issues and escal prompt
- Experience with risk management and change management
- Experience with Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint preferred
- Familiar with Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology preferred
- Prior experience in a technical role preferred
- Travel approximately 1%-5% of the time to customer or vender site
- Must possess a valid driver’s license
- Must possess a valid passport
- Ability to travel internationally
the ENGEL group has been thriving for decades. This is because as a family-run company, we rely on long-standing relationships and aim to live up to our own exacting standards of expertise and experience in all fields of plastics processing. We see ourselves as a driving, innovative force that has continually set new standards in a dynamic and diverse industry. Our competitive edge has come from generating added value for customers worldwide.
ENGEL attaches great importance to flexibility, innovation and self-responsibility of all of its employees and business units. This is the only…
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