Are You Ready to Build Leaders, Systems, and Results?

Can you simultaneously coach managers, harden technical standards, and deliver complex industrial automation programs? Do you thrive at the intersection of people, process, and technology? If so, CLX Engineering wants you to lead our Industrial Systems Engineering and Delivery organization.

What You’ll Own

• Leadership Engine: Grow Engineering Managers and technical leads; foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Operating Rhythm: Set performance expectations and institute KPIs/operational metrics that provide clarity and drive outcomes.
• Scaling the Org: Define and run an engineering strategy aligned to company goals; standardize methods, tooling, and best practices that scale throughput and quality.
• Technology Decisions: Evaluate and deploy systems that enhance engineering efficiency and reliability.

Technical Governance and Delivery Excellence

• Guarantee that deliverables meet quality standards, customer expectations, and project requirements.
• Maintain engineering standards, documentation discipline, and rigorous review processes.
• Engage directly on critical projects, customer escalations, and complex technical issues.
• Advance consistency, risk controls, and operational readiness across teams and programs.

Enterprise Collaboration

• Work hand-in-hand with Operations, PMO, Manufacturing, Sales, and the Executive team to align resources and priorities.
• Contribute to staffing models, capacity plans, forecasting, and long-range growth planning.
• Support customer engagements, technical reviews, and business development conversations.
• Ensure engineering efforts translate to operational efficiency, financial performance, and customer success.

Developing Talent and Improving Systems

• Lead recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and performance management for engineering leaders.
• Design technical career paths and cultivate future leaders.
• Champion continuous improvement, structured knowledge-sharing, and process optimization.
• Ensure critical knowledge is captured and propagated across CLX Engineering.

Role Basics

• Travel as needed to customer sites, operational facilities, and company locations.
• Other responsibilities that align with the scope of this leadership role.

What We’re Looking For

• A seasoned leader who has built and guided high-performing engineering teams.
• A balanced approach to technical rigor, operational execution, and people development.
• Experience scaling organizations, processes, and standards in growth environments.
• Strong domain knowledge in industrial automation, controls systems, and project delivery.
• A collaborative, trust-building leader who develops talent and enforces accountability.
• A strategic mindset that links engineering priorities to broader business goals.

Nice to Have

• Experience with airport systems, baggage handling, logistics, or other large-scale automation programs.
• An advanced degree in a technical or business discipline.
• History of scaling engineering capabilities and leadership capacity in a growing organization.

Skills You Rely On

• Troubleshooting Skills
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Troubleshooting Industrial Automation Equipment
• Process Engineering
• Electrical / Electronic Systems
• High-level Operations Analysis
• Budgeting / Forecasting Experience
• Root Cause Analysis
• Process Development

Technology Landscape

• Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
• RFID Systems
• Industrial Controls (Allen Bradley, Omron, Siemens, Schneider Electric)
• SCADA
• Variable Frequency Drives (VFD)
• CAD Software (AutoCAD)
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) (Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron, Siemens, Beckoff, Modicon, Schneider Electric, Fanuc)
• HMI
• Servo Motors
• Industrial Robot

Lead with clarity. Scale with discipline. Deliver with confidence. Apply to lead Industrial Systems Engineering at CLX Engineering.