Engineering Project Manager – Automation

Overview

In this Cambridge-based role you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex automation and robotics projects, coordinating hardware, software, and systems across engineering, manufacturing, and field operations. You’ll drive plans, risks, and stakeholder communications to ensure safe, reliable, and scalable products. The position sits at the intersection of engineering delivery and customer-focused execution, with opportunities to shape autonomous technology for real-world farming environments.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary: 70,000 + Shares

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery from planning to deployment for complex engineering projects
• Develop and manage project plans including milestones, budgets, resources, and risks
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across mechanical, electrical, software, embedded, manufacturing, and field operations
• Oversee project governance: risks, issues, change control, status reporting, and stakeholder communication
• Collaborate with technical leads to resolve blockers and ensure safety, quality, reliability, and performance
• Oversee system integration, verification, commissioning, field trials, and transition to manufacturing

Key requirements

• Proven experience delivering complex hardware and software projects in automation, robotics, mechatronics, or related engineering
• Strong management of scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders
• Solid technical understanding of integrated engineering systems and multi-disciplinary collaboration
• Experience using Jira, Kanban boards, and project timelines for engineering and software delivery

• stakeholder communication
• cross-functional collaboration
• problem solving
• Jira
• Kanban
• project timelines

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