Site Installations Manager

What we need

The Installation Manager will work with multi-discipline contractors, commissioning technicians, design engineering, project management, and testing teams to lead the overall installation of both structural systems, racking, and automated equipment on customer sites. The Site Installation Manager primary goal is to ensure the system is installed in a timely manner, within budget, and delivered without defect through commissioning and testing to the operations team. This position will be a highly visible role and interact with all departments and levels across the company including executive management.   

What we do   

The Site Installation team oversees the installation of Symbotic automation systems on customer sites.  They are responsible for ensuring the systems are installed as designed and at a high quality on schedule and under budget. This group will partner very closely with the Symbotic PM and commissioning team.   

What you’ll do   

• Manage and lead site specific Requests for Information (RFIs); Receive, escalate, and respond to all contractor and vendor RFIs in accordance with process SLAs. 

• Manage and update Golden Prerequisite (GPR)- Maintain daily site installation progress and commissioning readiness through the GPR tool. 

• Maintain and Manage Site Bulletins to ensure site contractors and vendors understand the detail and scope of work for engineering bulletins, maintain bulletin matrix, validate work completion. 

• Manage and lead and validate contractors and vendors deliver quality by 650 Checklists. 

• Monitor and ensure that all missing material request validation requested from site are verified, recorded properly, and documented in the missing material matrix along with a root cause. 

• Support Field Change Request (FCR) Validation for site efforts in reviewing and assessing the validity of site FCRs along with the resource requirements and cost before project management issuance of purchase orders. 

• Upon the completion of Mechanical and Electrical installation scope, support the site team in the demobilization of all installation resources and materials. 

What you’ll need   

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or related field required.  

• Minimum of 5 years trade experience in integration, construction management, or automation installation required.  

• Minimum 3 years experience supervising or managing teams, trades contractors.  

• Experience with industrial/robotic automation projects and ASRS projects.  

• Good negotiation and relationship skills, both in directing the technical team and ability to manage and reach solutions to competing priorities.  

• Experience with using metrics and data analysis to drive process improvements.  

• Ability to provide critical technical thinking at the team level to trigger appropriate discussions around requirements, design, and process challenges that the team may face.   

• Ability to travel up to 80%. 

Our Environment   

• Hybrid, travel-based position.   Access to major airport preferred.   

• Travel is required up to 80% of the time. Employee must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations. Our main office is in Wilmington, MA. The person taking this position will be required to perform work at our customer installation locations for extended periods of time where equipment is installed and ready for commissioning.    

• The employee is responsible to own a credit card and manage expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.    

• The employee is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms.    

• The employee is routinely required to work at heights of up to 45 feet and within restrictive areas of 24 inches. to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.    

• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.    

• Must comply with all safety requirements and protocols, including without limitation Lock out tag out safety protocols and fall protection safety protocols.     

• Approximately 80% of time will be spent on a construction site with PPE required (hard hat, safety vest, steel toes, eyeglasses, ear protection, fall protection (e.g., safety harness).    

• There will be steep stairs to climb into the structure. You may be required to routinely walk up and down stairs to navigate the automation structure.   

• You will regularly be near railings that are high off the ground.    

• Subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily temperature changes. Must be capable of working in temperatures ranging from 105° to 32° Fahrenheit.