Senior Project Manager – Industrial Digitalization & Software Implementation

Location: Remote Start Date: ASAP Languages: Fluent English required Type: Full-time

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing industrial technology company developing AI-powered software that helps manufacturers optimize production processes, improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and accelerate digital transformation across complex industrial environments.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead industrial software implementation projects across the USA and Latin America. You'll manage complex customer engagements from project initiation through successful delivery, acting as the primary point of contact between customers, local partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

This is a highly customer-facing role that combines project leadership, industrial engineering knowledge, and international stakeholder management. You'll work closely with engineering, data science, customer success, and plant operations teams to ensure successful deployment of advanced industrial optimization solutions while building strong, long-term customer relationships.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of industrial software implementation projects across the USA and Latin America.

• Serve as the primary customer contact, coordinating communication between customer teams, local partners, and internal engineering resources.

• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across Engineering, Data Science, Customer Success, and external partners.

• Manage multiple concurrent customer projects while ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, quality, and customer expectations.

• Monitor project progress through regular status meetings, reporting, and stakeholder updates.

• Identify, manage, and escalate project risks, blockers, and dependencies while driving timely resolution.

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including work plans, schedules, meeting minutes, risk logs, decisions, and action items.

• Coordinate on-site activities at customer manufacturing plants to support implementation, project governance, and customer engagement.

• Support the growth of regional project delivery capabilities by sharing best practices and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Mining, Chemical Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.

• 5+ years of experience managing industrial projects, preferably involving industrial software, automation, process control, or digital transformation solutions.

• Experience delivering projects within manufacturing or process industries such as cement, chemicals, refining, mining, pulp & paper, or similar sectors.

• Proven experience coordinating international, multidisciplinary, and remote technical teams.

• Strong customer-facing project management experience with the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships.

• Excellent planning, organization, communication, and leadership skills.

• Experience preparing project plans, schedules, progress reports, and risk management documentation.

• Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.

• Professional English required.

• Spanish is highly preferred for coordination with teams in Spain and customers across Latin America.

• Willingness to travel regularly to industrial plants across the USA and Latin America, with occasional travel to Spain for coordination and training.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience implementing industrial digitalization, automation, Advanced Process Control (APC), or industrial optimization solutions.

• Experience working within B2B SaaS or industrial technology companies.

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project management certification.

• Experience with Jira or similar project and portfolio management tools.

• Previous experience managing industrial technology implementation projects involving local partners or subcontractors.

• Familiarity with Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT, MES, SCADA, DCS, historian systems, or industrial analytics platforms.

WHY JOIN?

Our client develops AI-powered industrial software that enables manufacturers to optimize production, improve operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and accelerate digital transformation through real-time process intelligence.

You'll join an international engineering organization delivering large-scale industrial technology projects across the Americas, working directly with global manufacturing companies and multidisciplinary technical teams. This is an opportunity to lead impactful digital transformation initiatives while helping build the company's growing project delivery presence across the region.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

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