Automation Project Engineer
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Insight Global is seeking an Automation Project Engineer to support operational readiness, process qualification readiness, and production ramp-up. The engineer will track project scope, status, milestones, dependencies, and readiness activities; coordinate across technical and operational stakeholders; identify readiness gaps and communicate impacts; and maintain KPIs and management updates that highlight progress, issues, risks, and decisions requiring attention.
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Job Description
Insight Global is seeking an Automation Project Engineer to support operational readiness, process qualification readiness, and production ramp up. Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of project scope, current execution status, key milestones, dependencies, and outstanding readiness activities.
- Coordinate with stakeholders across automation, engineering, IT/OT, quality, operations, and project teams to obtain status, clarify requirements, and align timelines.
- Identify gaps between current status and operational-readiness, PQ-readiness, and production-ramp-up requirements, and communicate potential impacts.
- Develop and maintain KPIs and regular management updates that distinguish completed work, ongoing activities, unresolved issues, risks, and decisions requiring attention.
Skills and Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of relevant project engineering, project management, automation, IT/OT, or manufacturing-readiness experience.
- Experience coordinating multiple workstreams in a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, organizational, and independent follow-through skills.
- Ability to create KPIs, trackers, management updates, CRs, service tickets, and knowledge articles.
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 5,017 open Project Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$92–145K/yr69 salary ranges
- US median$35–46/hr268 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 136 open Project Engineer jobs in North Carolina and 5,017 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Project Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,886 postings).
- Education
- 3,041 of the 5,017 open Project Engineer jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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