Services Senior Staff Project Manager
Role Overview
The role leads end-to-end delivery of large, complex industrial software projects for existing and future customers.
Projects may span multiple sites and phases, from initiation through go-live, hypercare, and handoff, while meeting scope, schedule, and commercial expectations.
The project manager is a customer-facing delivery leader who works with solution architects, technical leads, and practice/product stakeholders.
The description lists Houston, Texas and Calgary, Canada as locations and identifies the role as full-time and hybrid, with three office days per week.
Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the listed office location.
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Role overview
The role leads end-to-end delivery of large, complex industrial software projects for existing and future customers.
Projects may span multiple sites and phases, from initiation through go-live, hypercare, and handoff, while meeting scope, schedule, and commercial expectations.
The project manager is a customer-facing delivery leader who works with solution architects, technical leads, and practice/product stakeholders.
The description lists Houston, Texas and Calgary, Canada as locations and identifies the role as full-time and hybrid, with three office days per week.
Candidates must reside within commuting distance of the listed office location.
Responsibilities
- Own project initiation, planning, execution, go-live, hypercare, and handoff.
- Define scope, milestones, work breakdown structure, staffing plans, and Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
- Run delivery governance, including standups, weekly status updates, risk reviews, steering committees, and QBRs.
- Provide executive-ready updates, manage expectations, explain trade-offs, and drive timely decisions.
- Validate solution designs with technical partners across MES, SCADA, IoT, digital twin, edge compute, and cloud data flows.
- Oversee integration alignment across PLC/OT systems, historians, data lakes, ERP/MES/PLM/MOM, and manufacturing analytics.
- Lead cross-functional teams of software engineers, OT/automation specialists, DevOps, QA, data engineers, and site services.
Essential requirements
- 8–12+ years of project or program management experience with industrial software, including MES, SCADA, IoT, manufacturing analytics, edge, or automation.
- Proven delivery experience in production or plant environments, including multi-site or global rollouts.
- Hands-on experience coordinating OT and IT teams and leading ERP/PLM/MOM integrations.
- Strong command of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or hybrid methods and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, or Smartsheet.
- Demonstrated success managing CAD 1M–CAD 10M+ projects and complex stakeholder landscapes.
- Excellent executive communication, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Desired skills and experience
- Industry experience in one or more of automotive, CPG, pharma/life sciences, chemicals, oil and gas, semiconductors, or heavy industry.
- Familiarity with Aveva/Wonderware, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens Opcenter/WinCC, Ignition, GE Digital, PTC ThingWorx, Azure IoT/AWS IoT, AVEVA PI, Snowflake, or Databricks.
- Experience with data pipelines/ETL, historians, time-series databases, and manufacturing analytics.
- Knowledge of OT cybersecurity (ISA/IEC 62443), ISA-95/ISA-88, or CSV/GxP for regulated industries.
- Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, ScrumMaster/SAFe, ITIL, or Six Sigma/Lean.
About AVEVA
AVEVA develops industrial software used in sectors including energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals.
Successful applicants must pass a comprehensive background check, conducted in accordance with local laws.
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