Automation Engineering Manager

Lead Of Team Of Automation Engineers

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a world-class team and make sure members maintain technologically current and relevant skillsets
• Ensure that team members are consistently and meaningfully engaged by management, and feel valued, successful, and hopeful in their positions
• Work with HR on team development, performance, reviews, and staffing levels
• Develop onboarding strategies to get new hires up to speed as quickly as possible
• Ensure that their integration team stays profitable
• Maintain company's gross margins at agreed-to levels
• Work with project managers on keeping the team busy and properly utilized on projects
• Eliminate waste and increase efficiency through internal automation and reuse
• Set and maintain overhead budgets for the team
• Continuously improve
• Ensure consistency and reliability through appropriate and consistent use of processes and procedures
• Proactively analyze individual or system failures, develop and implement solutions to prevent a recurrence
• Regularly review and improve existing processes and procedures, create new ones as needed, and eliminate obsolete or unnecessary ones.

Qualifications:

• Experience as a Sr. Controls Engineer with leadership and project management
• Four-year engineering degree preferred
• 7 years of experience in industrial automation including expert knowledge of industrial automation and information systems delivery methods
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Basic business knowledge including markup, margins, overhead costs, unit costs, etc.