Director

• Define and lead the global smart factory strategy, aligned to business and manufacturing priorities across the enterprise.
• Assess current-state capabilities and future-state needs across factories, warehousing, and service operations, then translate those findings into a multi-year roadmap.
• Build and maintain value-based business cases, with clear financial, operational, and capability targets for each major initiative.
• Establish governance to track benefits, risks, maturity, and progress against stated transformation objectives.
• Lead the strategy, deployment, and continuous improvement of core smart factory platforms, including MES, MOM, WMS, automation, and connected production systems across multiple sites.
• Set standards for solution architecture, interoperability, and data models to support scalable deployment and easier integration across the manufacturing network.
• Partner with IT, operations, engineering, and external solution providers to deliver practical, scalable solutions that improve plant performance and support long-term flexibility.
• Translate emerging technologies such as IIoT, AI, analytics, and digital thread capabilities into prioritized use cases with clear business relevance.
• Define the manufacturing data and analytics strategy across production, warehousing, quality, maintenance, and related functions.
• Enable real‑time operational visibility and data‑driven decision making through standardized reporting and analytics.
• Partner with operations and planning leaders to strengthen capacity planning, S&OP inputs, cost models, and headcount planning through better digital insight.
• Use data and digital tools to improve productivity, throughput, capacity, quality, asset performance, and labor efficiency.
• Lead the organizational change management required to adopt new systems, processes, and ways of working across a global manufacturing network.
• Align manufacturing, supply chain, IT, engineering, finance, quality, and operations leaders around a common digital transformation agenda.
• Create a culture of disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and cross-site learning.
• Foster a collaborative, high‑performance, and innovation‑driven culture across global teams.
• Drive alignment and results through influence rather than formal authority.
• Provide leadership across manufacturing regions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, balancing global standards with local operational needs.

Director of Smart Factory

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and evolution of scrubber dryer and sweeper platforms.
• Ensure platforms meet performance, safety, durability, and regulatory requirements across global markets.
• Lead structured lifecycle management, including cost optimization, quality improvements, and end-of-life planning.
• Drive modular platform architectures enabling reuse, scalability, and efficient variant creation.
• Lead, coach, and develop multi-disciplinary engineering teams in Hungary and Italy.
• Build strong technical alignment with Technology teams in China and Hadsund, ensuring shared standards, component roadmaps, and coordinated development.
• Oversee cross-site execution, resource planning, and engineering processes to ensure consistent delivery.
• Translate customer needs and market trends in commercial cleaning into actionable technical strategies.
• Guide development of new technologies such as battery systems, brushless motors, water management systems, squeegee and brush technologies, suction systems, and digital/IoT features.
• Oversee prototyping, testing, validation, and industrialization of new solutions.
• Ensure robust engineering practices including DFMEA, DFM/DFA, reliability engineering, and compliance with global standards.
• Partner with Product Management to define platform roadmaps and feature sets.
• Work closely with Operations, Quality, Procurement, and Service to ensure manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability.
• Support supplier development and sourcing strategies for key components (motors, batteries, electronics, plastics, mechanical assemblies).

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