Company Overview:
Avanceon Automation & Control is Qatar’s leading automation and control solutions provider, delivering cutting-edge projects across Oil & Gas, Utilities, and Industrial sectors. We pride ourselves on technical excellence, innovative solutions, and delivering projects on time, within budget, and with measurable commercial outcomes.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced Automation Project Manager with 12-14 years of expertise in automation systems, including PLCs, RTUs, Control Panels, HMIs, and SCADA. This role demands a professional who combines technical expertise, project management skills, and commercial acumen, capable of driving complex automation projects while ensuring revenue realization, cross-department coordination, and digital transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Project & Program Management:
- Lead end-to-end automation projects from feasibility and design through commissioning and handover, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, resource allocation, risk registers, and cost estimates aligned with corporate and client objectives.
- Monitor project KPIs, progress, and financial performance, including invoicing, revenue inflows, and profitability.
- Coordinate multiple simultaneous projects, balancing priorities, and managing dependencies.
2. Technical Leadership
- Oversee design, installation, testing, and commissioning of PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, SCADA and control panels, ensuring compliance with project specifications and industry standards (IEC, ISA, QCS, and Ashghal ICA)
- Drive digitalization initiatives, including Smart Plant solutions, cloud-based SCADA integration, IoT connectivity, and automated reporting.
- Troubleshoot technical challenges, provide engineering guidance, and approve technical deliverables.
- Lead cross-functional teams (on-site and remote), ensuring effective collaboration and knowledge transfer.
3. Commercial Management & Revenue Realization:
- Manage project financials, including budgets, cost tracking, change orders, and commercial risk.
- Ensure timely invoicing and revenue recognition, coordinating with commercial and finance teams.
- Identify scope changes, contract variations, and opportunities to maximize revenue and project profitability.
- Collaborate with business development teams to evaluate new project opportunities and proposals.
4. Stakeholder & Client Engagement:
- Act as the primary client interface, ensuring expectations are met and relationships are strengthened.
- Maintain open communication with internal departments (engineering, procurement, commissioning, QA/QC, and commercial) to ensure seamless project execution.
- Provide regular project reports and dashboards to senior management and stakeholders.
- Promote a client-focused culture, addressing concerns proactively and building trust for future projects.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics, or Instrumentation Engineering.
- PMP certification or equivalent is preferred.
- 12-14 years of experience in automation, with hands-on exposure to PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, SCADA (AVEVA preferred), and Control Panels.
- 4-5 years of proven project management experience, including multi-discipline, high-value projects.
- Solid experience in commercial management, invoicing, and revenue realization.
- Strong understanding of standards including IEC, ISA, QCS, and international best practices.
Skills & Attributes:
- Strong technical expertise and problem-solving capabilities in automation systems.
- Proficient in project management tools (MS Project, Primavera, or equivalent).
- Excellent leadership, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Experience in cross-functional coordination across engineering, procurement, commissioning, QA/QC, and commercial teams.
- Knowledge of digitalization in automation, including SCADA analytics, IoT integration, and automation reporting.
- Middle East experience, particularly in Qatar, is an advantage.
- Fluency in English; Arabic is a plus.
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What We Do
Avanceon is the leading provider of automation, control systems integration, proprietary energy management solutions and support services. It has a strong market footprint through its offices in Dubai - UAE (covering Middle East), Lahore - Pakistan (covering South Asia) and Exton, Pennsylvania - United States of America (covering North America). Avanceon is also among the select group of ‘certified members’ of Control System Integrators Association (‘CSIA’) and is also listed on the Control Engineering Magazine’s System Integrator Hall of Fame.Avanceon has been in the automation business for the last 24 years and has transformed into a 360 degree solution provider for automation, energy management, service and maintenance. Servicing clients over a span of two decades, Avanceon has completed several projects for major blue chip companies enabling it to earn strong credentials, move up the learning curve and develop a diverse client base. Going forward, it intends to capitalize on its core strengths to expand its footprint in the Middle East by setting up offices in Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Oman.
