ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.

Project Manager

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. • $100K — $120K *
Houston, TX 77084In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or related technical discipline, or equivalent project delivery experience.
  • Substantial project management experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or complex commercial buildings.
  • Proven ability to coordinate multiple building trades and manage technical interfaces across different project phases.
  • Working knowledge of building automation, controls environments, and associated systems.
  • Strong project controls skills, including management of schedules, forecasts, and change orders.
  • Experience with site execution, testing, commissioning, and handover in active construction environments.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and the capacity to lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and risks from handover through close-out.
  • Build and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering all project phases.
  • Lead regular project reviews and report on forecasting, risks, and recovery actions.
  • Manage multiple workstreams while prioritizing effectively and maintaining accountability.
  • Coordinate interfaces among various building trades and ensure readiness before installation or commissioning.
  • Protect project scope and budget through disciplined change control and customer communication.
  • Maintain an active risk register and ensure compliance with safety and quality requirements.

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities and training programs.
  • Exposure to high-availability environments and cutting-edge technologies.
  • Collaborative work culture with a focus on cross-functional team leadership.
  • Access to industry best practices and methodologies in project management.
  • Opportunities to work on large-scale, impactful projects.
Full Job Description
Job Description

    • Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, risks and customer communication from handover through close-out.
    • Build and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering engineering, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning and handover.
    • Lead regular project reviews and provide clear, forward-looking reporting on milestones, forecast, risks, decisions and recovery actions.
    • Manage several workstreams or projects simultaneously while maintaining clear priorities and accountability.
    • Trade and site coordination
      • Coordinate interfaces among electrical, mechanical, controls, BMS/EPMS, network/OT, fire protection, security and other building trades.
      • Align Orise activities with general contractors, construction managers, equipment vendors, commissioning agents and customer teams.
      • Identify interface gaps, access constraints, sequencing conflicts and readiness issues before they affect installation or commissioning.
      • Maintain strong site presence during critical execution phases and ensure disciplined issue escalation and closure.
      • Commercial and financial management
        • Maintain project budgets, cost-to-complete forecasts, resource plans, invoicing and cash-flow visibility.
        • Protect scope and margin through disciplined change control, timely notices, substantiated change orders and documented customer decisions.
        • Monitor planned versus actual effort, subcontractor commitments and schedule impacts, and initiate corrective actions early
      • Risk, quality and commissioning
        • Maintain an active risk and opportunity register with owners, due dates and mitigation actions.
        • Ensure compliance with Orise and customer quality and safety requirements.
        • Oversee design reviews, submittals, FAT, SAT, integrated systems testing, commissioning support, punch-list closure and turnover documentation.
        • Confirm that systems, documentation and training are ready for reliable operations at handover.

        Customer and team leadership
        • Act as the primary customer contact and escalation point for assigned projects.
        • Lead cross-functional, multicultural project teams and create clarity on deliverables, interfaces, decision rights and priorities.
        • Build trusted working relationships and communicate issues transparently, with solutions and clear recommendations.
        • Capture lessons learned and improve Orise project delivery standards and repeatability.


Your Profile

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant trade and project delivery experience.
  • Substantial project management experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, complex commercial buildings or comparable high-availability environments.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple building trades and managing technical interfaces across design, construction and commissioning.
  • Working knowledge of building automation and controls environments, such as BMS, EPMS, PLC/SCADA, instrumentation, OT networks and associated electrical or mechanical systems.
  • Strong project controls and commercial skills, including schedule management, forecasting, change orders, subcontractor management and customer reporting.
  • Experience managing site execution, testing, commissioning and handover in an active construction environment.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, sound judgment and the ability to lead without relying solely on formal authority.
  • Authorization to work in the United States and ability to travel regularly to customer and project sites.


Preferred
  • Experience delivering hyperscale or colocation data center projects.
  • PMP, PMI, PRINCE2 or comparable project management certification.
  • OSHA 30 or comparable construction safety training.
  • Experience with critical-path scheduling tools and structured project controls.
  • Experience with vendor-agnostic systems integration and global delivery teams.


Responsibilities for Health, Safety and Environment include:
  • Work in compliance with divisional health, safety, and environmental procedures
  • Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through lockout-tagout methods
  • Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts
  • Report defect in any equipment or protective device
  • Ensure that the required protective equipment is used for the assigned tasks
  • Attend all required health, safety, and environmental training
  • Report any accidents/incidents to supervisor
  • Assist in investigating accidents/incidents
  • Refrain from engaging in any prank, contest, feat of strength, unnecessary running, or rough and boisterous conduct


About ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. is a Canadian company that designs and builds factory automation systems. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario. ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. operates through four segments: Automation Systems Group, Life Sciences, Renewable Energy and IT. The company provides custom automation solutions to a variety of industries, including automotive, consumer products, electronics, energy, healthcare, and others. ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Learn more about ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
* Ladders Estimates

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