IT/OT Project Manager
The opportunity
As an IT/OT Project Manager at Linesight, you will work alongside highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams, nurturing a strong sense of collaboration, trust, and shared achievement. You will gain extensive exposure across large‑scale capital projects - broadening your technical insight, expanding your project leadership skills, and opening new avenues for your career progression.
We will empower and support you to take real ownership of your work, allowing you to shape your own path while contributing meaningfully to exceptional project outcomes. At Linesight, lasting trusted relationships - with our people and with our clients - are at the heart of everything we do.
This role will be based in Qingdao, starting on a 1-year contract.
In this role you will:
- Lead and own all project management responsibilities for IT/OT scopes, including Building/Utility Systems, Process Equipment, Warehouse Systems, and all related integrations.
- Collaborate closely with technical, construction, project controls, GE OT, and IT program teams to ensure seamless coordination and integration of IT/OT services.
- Oversee the delivery of critical IT/OT systems such as COPA‑Data Zenon, LES, Siemens PCS7, and interfaces with systems like SAP and PAS‑X.
- Guide the project through all lifecycle stages, ensuring safety, compliance, and alignment with business benefits and strategic objectives.
- Support the Project Director in developing, maintaining, and implementing the Project Management Plan, ensuring clear communication and effective deployment.
- Actively manage project schedule, cost, risk, and governance, particularly within IT/OT‑specific workstreams.
- Drive strong reporting disciplines and ensure timely, high‑quality decision‑making processes.
- Identify and manage project changes, performing impact assessments and securing approvals for any scope modifications.
- Lead ad‑hoc discussions and present outcomes professionally to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment with business case timelines and support the transition through H1 and H2 signoffs with effective stakeholder engagement.
- Capture lessons learned, share best practices, and support continuous improvement across project delivery.
- Manage project closeout, ensuring all documentation, operational readiness, and handover requirements are met to the highest standard.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have fluent spoken Chinese and good spoken English.
- Bring experience delivering pharmaceutical capital projects or major programs for international clients.
- Demonstrate strong project management capability and leadership, with the ability to work independently and guide cross‑functional teams.
- Possess basic knowledge of SAP ECC or S/4HANA, WCS, and related enterprise systems.
- Ideally have experience across a broad range of IT/OT integration, including OT systems on IT infrastructure services such as networks, hosts, domain controllers, and identity and access management (IAM).
- Thrive in a dynamic environment where you can own your priorities, build strong relationships, and work towards shared goals with openness and trust.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually, with video required.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Project Management
Our teams of program and project managers deliver success globally through strategic planning and stringent controls. Whether you have extensive experience or are at the early stages of your career in program or project management, we offer the opportunity to work on some of the most innovative buildings and facilities with world-leading clients. Play a central role in these projects as part of our dynamic team. We recognise the value that each team member can bring to the table, and we offer a range of supports, learning pathways and structured career planning cycles to ensure that every individual has the best opportunity to excel and further develop, regardless of the stage of your career you join us at.
Life at Linesight
