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At Paslin we are all about engineering excellence, innovation and vertical manufacturing competence. Our commitment to quality and excellence is evident in every project we undertake. Our team is passionate about automation powered by innovation!

We are seeking a skilled and hands-on Project Manager for Automation Service Team. This role is responsible for leading automation installation projects from planning through execution, ensuring they meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. The role is focused on project management activities, including cross‑functional coordination, customer communication, resource planning, data analysis, and process improvement. This role involves managing field service operations to ensure successful on-site installation, troubleshooting, and customer support for automation equipment.

As a first-level manager, this role provides direction to project coordinators and installation teams, drives operational efficiency, and ensures high customer satisfaction. The Project Manager serves as the central point of contact for customer needs, quotations, technical issues, and program changes. If you’re a strong communicator, a natural leader, and thrive in a fast-paced, safety-first environment, we want to hear from you. Bring your skills, attention to detail, and commitment to quality. Let’s build something great together.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Lead and manage automation installation service projects from initiation through completion, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and company goals. Ensure project and departmental milestones are met while adhering to approved budgets.
2. Develop project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocations to support successful execution. Facilitate communication across engineering, design, procurement, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams to maintain alignment on project deliverables.
3. Serve as the primary customer contact for quotations, cost discussions, project changes, status updates, and contract-related inquiries.
4. Partner with vendors and suppliers to ensure cost, lead time, and quality meet project expectations.
5. As needed, lead technical team during the installation of service projects at customer sites. This includes assuring safe work practices, assigning work, tracking time and attendance, and leadership of the service installation team.

Travel: This position requires flexibility to report to Paslin and customer sites. During an installation project this role will typically require overnight travel to customer sites for periods of up to 5 days at a time, estimated travel 20%. Must be able to travel to sites in USA, Canada and Mexico.

Work Environment: This position operates in both an office and a shop/plant environment, may be required to work at multiple facilities depending on workload.

Work type & Expected hours of work: Regularly works on-site at local Paslin location. Typical work schedule for this role is flexible around core business hours of 7am-4pm, Monday to Friday. During critical phases of the project, work hours may flex up to 12 hours per day. This position is for regular, full-time work and may require coming in early, working late, or working on weekends to meet the needs of the business.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, and twist. Occasionally required to lift/push/pull up to 25lbs. May require working on elevated platforms. This is a safety sensitive role, which includes working around moving equipment and machinery.

Direct Reports: This position is part of the site leadership team and will have direct reports.

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What’s in It for You:

• Competitive pay and great benefits. Paslin offers a wide range of benefits including Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, 401k Match, Medical, Dental, Vision, Accident, and Life Insurance.
• A chance to improve your skills and your career. Paslin believes in investing in people and offers a variety of development programs with excellent opportunities for individual growth through training, tuition reimbursement, and career advancement.
• A supportive, collaborative team and a fun, engaging work environment. Check out our company page on LinkedIn to learn more about our values and see how we give back to our community.

Paslin is an Equal Opportunity Employer: It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, sex (including pregnancy and conditions related to pregnancy), color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, weight, height, religion, age, physical or mental disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, AIDS, HIV, misdemeanor arrest record (not resulting in a conviction), military veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law. Paslin utilizes a consumer reporting agency to obtain consumer reports as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.