Strategic Operations & Data Analyst
Cyngn
Advanced Manufacturing Senior Manager, Automation
Acuity
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Lead and develop the AME-Automation Design team, directing and coordinating planning, organization, leadership, and project completion.
- Collaborate with internal and external clients to capture, refine, and translate requirements into functional automation solutions.
- Lead and manage multiple concurrent automation projects, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to technical standards.
- Oversee project concepts, designs, business cases, logbooks, resource planning, documentation, and implementation.
- Follow-up on permanent corrective action plans to resolve outstanding issues related to quality, production, equipment, tooling, customers, and production controls.
- Define strategic direction and roadmap for automation design leveraging emerging technologies like AI/ML, computational design, and generative design.
- Resolve design issues and escalated issues; coordinate with other departments as needed.
- Develop and implement policies, best practices, processes, and standards in automation design and engineering.
- Monitor progress against project schedules and budgets; recommend resource allocation.
- Review machine capacity models and provide recommendations/solutions for capacity shortfalls.
- Monthly reporting of departmental KPI metrics.
- Lead and participate in team events to improve ABL processes.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university in Engineering and/or Engineering Technology or equivalent field.
- 5+ years of experience in the manufacturing industry.
- 3+ years management experience preferred, with technical leadership skills for problem solving and conflict resolution.
- Experience improving process integrity and configuring automation systems.
- Experience capturing, refining, and translating requirements into functional automation solutions.
- Experience leading and managing multiple concurrent automation projects and delivering on time and within budget.
- Experience with project concepts, designs, business cases, logbooks, resource planning, documentation, and implementation.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, computational design, and generative design technologies (preferred).
- Skills in resolving design issues, coordinating with other departments, and implementing corrective action plans.
- Leadership and team development experience (leading and developing engineering teams).
