OT Integration and QA Manager

OT Integration and Quality Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop the OT Integration and Quality team, establishing clear priorities, performance expectations, governance, and accountability frameworks.
• Own the terminal's OT integration strategy, ensuring alignment between operational requirements, infrastructure, equipment, enterprise systems, and technical architecture.
• Lead the OT quality assurance framework, including test strategy, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, commissioning, production validation, and post-deployment verification.
• Ensure testing scenarios, operational use cases, and validation processes accurately reflect terminal operating requirements and support safe production deployments.
• Manage vendor and technology partner performance, ensuring delivery of milestones, quality standards, issue resolution, and post-handover support.
• Build strong relationships across Operations, Engineering, IT, Labor Relations, project teams, global functions, and external vendors to resolve technical and operational challenges.
• Lead or support root-cause investigations for significant OT system failures and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented and sustained.
• Drive continuous improvement by standardizing, simplifying, and automating integration, testing, commissioning, release readiness, and documentation processes.
• What We Are Looking For:
• Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset, curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.
• Leadership expectation: We are looking for people who consistently put customers first, lead by example with respect for people, deliver results with integrity, and drive continuous improvement by solving problems at the root, developing people, and raising standards every day.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industry 4.0, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience within container terminal operations, port digitization, industrial automation, or large-scale industrial environments.
• Strong expertise in Operational Technology systems, including Terminal Operating Systems (TOS), GOS, SCADA, ECS, OCR, APIs, middleware, OPC UA, and related technologies.
• Demonstrated project management experience leading complex technology deployments and implementation programs.
• Experience leading teams and managing diverse stakeholder groups across operational and technical environments.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and enterprise IT standards within OT environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TWIC card and Port Access Card.
• Salary: $90K - $120K Location: Elizabeth, NJ (5 days in office) Notice to applicants applying to positions in the United States
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• APM Terminals is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities who are applying for positions in the U.S. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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• Salary: $90K - $120K
• Location: Elizabeth, NJ (5 days in office)
• Notice to applicants applying to positions in the United States

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industry 4.0, or a related discipline.