Manager, Industrial Controls Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $144k - $211.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Symbotic

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Logistics • Consulting • Food & Beverage

Symbotic is an industrial automation company that provides an end-to-end, AI-powered warehouse automation platform combining autonomous mobile robots, advanced vision and sensing, and orchestration software to modernize supply chains. Its system integrates hardware and intelligent software to increase throughput, accuracy, and storage density for retail, grocery, CPG, and wholesale customers, solving labor constraints and operational inefficiencies in distribution and fulfillment operations.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop a growing team of Industrial Controls Engineers supporting development, implementation, and sustaining engineering activities • Establish performance expectations, career development plans, and technical competency frameworks • Drive workforce planning, recruiting, succession planning, and organizational development initiatives • Foster accountability, technical excellence, innovation, safety, and continuous improvement • Mentor engineers and technical leaders and promote knowledge sharing and engineering best practices • Own engineering execution across Industrial Controls implementation and deployment activities • Establish processes ensuring high-quality, reliable, and maintainable PLC and HMI solutions • Balance engineering resources against business priorities, customer commitments, and strategic objectives • Provide leadership for complex technical initiatives, troubleshooting efforts, and escalations • Drive technical decision-making consistent with architectures, standards, and product strategies • Support implementation and deployment of new control system capabilities and platform enhancements • Champion validation and testing strategies for system performance, reliability, and safety • Drive improvements in engineering productivity and reduce development, commissioning, and support efforts • Translate organizational strategy into technical roadmaps and execution plans • Identify technical risks, capability gaps, and process and platform improvement opportunities • Improve deployment efficiency, operational performance, and customer outcomes • Influence controls architecture and technology direction for business growth and platform scalability • Partner with Release Management and cross-functional stakeholders on control system updates • Communicate engineering status, technical risks, and strategic recommendations to leadership • Build customer and internal partner relationships to understand challenges and improve solutions • Support critical customer issues and operational escalations when necessary

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of management experience and 8 years of total work experience • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Automation Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline • Minimum of 8 years of experience programming PLCs, HMIs, drives, and related industrial control technologies and deploying industrial automation and control systems • Minimum of 3 years of people leadership experience managing Controls Engineers or other highly technical engineering teams • Demonstrated success leading complex industrial automation projects involving hardware, software, and integrated system architectures • Advanced experience with Rockwell Automation PLC platforms including ControlLogix and GuardLogix • Experience developing HMI applications using platforms such as Ignition and FactoryTalk ME/SE • Strong knowledge of industrial networking technologies and control system architectures • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills for complex automated systems • Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, control drawings, and system architecture documentation • Proven ability to drive outcomes through influence, collaboration, and technical leadership • Strong communication, organizational leadership, and stakeholder management skills • Valid driver's license and ability to drive and/or fly to client locations and company HQ • Experience in warehouse automation, robotics, material handling, or other complex automated systems preferred • Knowledge of power systems, AC/DC drive architectures, and motion control systems preferred • Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, and large-scale deployment programs preferred • Experience with Agile development methodologies, Jira, and modern engineering development processes preferred • Experience providing 24/7 customer support preferred • Master's degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related technical discipline preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Disability insurance • 401K • PTO • Business travel expenses reimbursed based on program guidelines • Eligible employees may receive a corporate credit card based on role and travel requirements