Allie deploys software products in factories that help manufacturing heads reduce downtime, improve equipment operating efficiency, manage processes, and improve quality. Allie’s products are RealTime Factory Floor which produces real time factory analytics at the line level, FactoryGPT - a Generative AI product to accelerate time to insight, and Allie ML, a machine learning product that delivers predictions about factory outcomes. They are all underpinned by the Allie Gateway, a device that enables real-time data streaming from the factory.
The Project Manager (Product Deployment Lead) plays a pivotal role within an industry-specific tribe focused on software product deployment at the factory level. Collaborating closely with clients, oversees a specialized team, which includes a factory automation engineer and a data integration specialist. This team is responsible for managing the entire deployment process, encompassing planning, sourcing, hardware installation, software installation, soft launch, and final launch phases.
We currently serve clients in the food, beverage, and CPGs.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership: ability to lead a squad on the factory floor to deploy Allie Software. Will also require collaborating with software development teams located in LATAM.
- Run Allie’s Product Deployment process, while deploying Allie at a manufacturing line - leading a squad mainly made up of a Factory Automation Engineer, Data Integration Specialist, and post-launch, a Customer Support Rep. You will report directly to the Head of Product Deployment
- Planning: Plan the deployment of Allie software by manufacturing lien, tackling the line machine by machine based on various factors such as criticality, tech readiness, and others.
- Stakeholder management: Be able to map out 5 broad groups of stakeholders including: plant manufacturing leadership, digital committees, line supervisors and operators, IT, maintenance and successfully communicate progress and expectations.
- Sourcing and procurement: Collaborating with cross-functional teams and Automation Partners to instrument machines and production lines.
- Factory Automation installation: Orchestrate installation of factory automation technology (PLCs, sensors, gateways) in available client windows during planned stops, cleaning, or other.
- Data acquisition: Lay out data needs and task data integration specialist to acquire, load, test structured data that will enable Allie software, including prompts for Factory Gpt, and others.
- Software installation: interface with developers from Allie to ensure software is correctly installed.
- Soft launch: Oversee configuration, installation, and testing of solutions, ensuring they meet agreed-upon performance and functionality standards.
- Launch and monitor: Gather feedback and share lessons learned with the Guild and the Head of Deployment, to identify areas for improvement and opportunities to optimize deployment processes and cycle times.
- Project Management: Managing delivery dates, budget and schedules, providing project direction on one or more projects while maintaining a high-quality level of service. Ensuring the quality of all deliverables.
- Managing client expectations and nurturing the client relationship by being the main point of contact for all project-related communications.
- Team work: work closely with Account Managers, Automation Engineers and Data Integration teams to ensure seamless integration of solutions into clients' existing environments.
- Risk management: Identify and manage potential risks, anticipating issues and developing contingency plans.
Requirements:
- Location: Ciudad de Mexico or Monterrey, México
- Factory life and client hands: We exist to help our clients make meaningful gains in their manufacturing operations.
- Teamwork: Can work in a team that is led by a product deployment leader, can work with a technical engineer doing hardware installations, can work with account managers, can work with other Allie members through the deployment.
- Experience in project management 3+ years, good understanding of planning and execution backlogs.
- Experience in industry or with software deployment - either is fine.
- Technical interest: Knowledge of SaaS companies or manufacturing engineering and excellent presentation skills.
- Communications: Excellent communication abilities and capacity to effectively interact with a variety of teams and clients.
- Parallel execution: Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deployments simultaneously and work under pressure in dynamic environments.
- Use of Enterprise Tools: Can use Jira to create and manage tickets, and Slack to communicate with teams. Other enterprise tools may be required. General proficiency with tools.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering. Certifications in Project Management / Lean Manufacturing are a plus.
Travel:
- Travel is required for this job. We serve client factories in LATAM.
- Demonstrate flexibility and availability for travel to client sites as needed for product deployment and support.