Services Senior Staff Project Manager

About the role

Location and work arrangement

• The role is listed for Houston, Texas or Calgary, Canada.
• Full-time hybrid role with three office days per week.
• Candidates must already live within commuting distance of the listed office location, specified as less than 50 miles.

Key responsibilities

• Own the project lifecycle from initiation through 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 communications, manage expectations, articulate trade-offs, and drive decisions.
• Validate solution designs with architects and technical leads across MES/SCADA/IoT, digital twins, edge compute, and cloud data flows.
• Oversee integration alignment with PLCs/OT systems, historians, data lakes, ERP/MES/PLM/MOM, and manufacturing analytics.
• Lead cross-functional software engineering, OT/automation, DevOps, QA, data engineering, and site services teams.

Essential requirements

• 8–12+ years of project/program management experience with industrial software such as MES, SCADA, IoT, manufacturing analytics, edge, or automation.
• Proven production/plant environment delivery, including multisite or global rollouts.
• Hands-on OT/IT team coordination and leadership of ERP/PLM/MOM integrations.
• Strong command of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, or Smartsheet.
• Demonstrated success managing $1M–$10M+ projects and complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Excellent executive communication, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Desired skills

• Industry experience in one or more of automotive, CPG, pharma/life sciences, chemicals, oil and gas, semiconductors, or heavy industry.
• Familiarity with platforms such as AVEVA/Wonderware, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Siemens Opcenter/WinCC, Ignition, GE Digital, PTC ThingWorx, Azure IoT/AWS IoT, OSIsoft/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 are desirable.