Project Manager, Automation - Boston Massachusetts

Company: Sweetgreen, Inc.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posted On: 01/31/2025

Here at sweetgreen's Automation Team we're at the forefront of restaurant automation. Our meal assembly automation - the Infinite Kitchen - operates daily at several of our sweetgreen locations across the country, but we are just getting started.As we expand our footprint of Infinite Kitchens, we are seeking a Project Manager, Automation to support the deployment and maintenance of our Infinite Kitchens across the country.This is an ideal role for someone with experience managing automation related projects with a background in engineering or project / program management.This is a full time role based in Boston with up to 25% travel to our deployment sites and up to 50% travel during onboarding.Who You Are:

• 3+ years of experience managing automation or robotics deployment projects with a proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously and 5+ years of experience working in the automation or robotics field
• You thrive in fast-paced environments and are skilled at juggling multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders.
• An excellent communicator, capable of collaborating closely with internal teams and third parties to ensure successful outcomes. Highly capable of building great relationships with your teams.
• Highly adept with project management tools (eg. Jira) and techniques
• You take pride in tracking details meticulously, and creating excellent documentation, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently, and continuously optimizing processes.
• Highly knowledgeable about industrial automation systems and their deployment in commercial environments
• Capable of working under pressure and flexible to travel to the deployment sites to support when needed
• You bring a continuous improvement mindset, always seeking ways to refine processes and achieve better outcomes.
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or a related fieldWhat You'll Do:
  • Support the deployments of Infinite Kitchens across the country, frequently project managing multiple deployments at a time
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for each deployment, coordinating between internal teams and external vendors
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, tracking timelines, milestones and deliverables for each site deployment
  • Proactively identify and address potential risks or roadblocks, ensuring smooth project execution
  • Track and manage ongoing maintenance for deployed Infinite Kitchens, including creating and updating tickets, coordinating work and tracking progress
  • Build and improve our project management and tracking systems for our deployments and maintenance
  • Continuously improve deployment and maintenance processes and documentation to improve efficiency and quality
  • Collaborate closely with our deployment and maintenance teams on long term improvement initiatives
  • Act as the main point of contact for sweetgreen's facilities team, helping coordinate and manage third party maintenance of commodity equipment (refrigeration, plumbing etc)
  • Act as the main point of contact for our spare parts distributor, ensuring restaurants have rapid access to spares. Manage our in-house emergency spares program.What you'll get:
    • Highly competitive pay + bonus plan
    • Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
    • Dental and Vision insurance
    • Flexible PTO plan
    • 401k program
    • Employee HSA and FSA
    • Complimentary greens
    • An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
    • To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
    • A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
    • A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
    • Free sweetgreen swagCome join thesweetlife!About sweetgreensweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we're committed to leaving people better than we found them. We're in the business of feeding people, and we're out to change what that means.sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about the E-Verify program, please.Salary range for this role:Starting salary range based on experience$100,000-$140,000 USDsweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.California residents: Review our applicant privacy notice.sweetgreen participates in the federal government'sE-Verifyprogram to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about theE-Verifyprogram, please.
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