Summary

ATS Corporation, commonly known as ATS Automation, is a leading Canadian industrial automation company founded in 1978 and headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing custom automated manufacturing systems for various industries, with a particularly strong focus on life sciences applications. ATS serves medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics producers, and other healthcare sectors with end-to-end automation solutions. The company's expertise spans assembly systems, conveyance platforms, material handling, vision inspection, and software solutions specifically tailored for regulated environments. With approximately 6,500 employees worldwide and operations across 20+ countries, ATS has established itself as a strategic provider of automation technology for critical healthcare manufacturing processes. Their life sciences division offers specialized solutions for autoinjectors, syringes, inhalers, diagnostic devices, and pharmaceutical fill-finish operations, helping clients achieve higher efficiency, quality control, and regulatory compliance in their manufacturing operations.

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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Company overview

ATS Corporation, commonly known as ATS Automation, is a leading Canadian industrial automation company founded in 1978 and headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing custom automated manufacturing systems for various industries, with a particularly strong focus on life sciences applications. ATS serves medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics producers, and other healthcare sectors with end-to-end automation solutions. The company's expertise spans assembly systems, conveyance platforms, material handling, vision inspection, and software solutions specifically tailored for regulated environments. With approximately 6,500 employees worldwide and operations across 20+ countries, ATS has established itself as a strategic provider of automation technology for critical healthcare manufacturing processes. Their life sciences division offers specialized solutions for autoinjectors, syringes, inhalers, diagnostic devices, and pharmaceutical fill-finish operations, helping clients achieve higher efficiency, quality control, and regulatory compliance in their manufacturing operations.