The Electrical & Controls Engineering Supervisor sets and measures team goals, KPIs, and individual goals to advance business initiatives. The supervisor collaborates with internal teams to ensure timely, complete, and accurate electrical and controls deliverables and reports to a functional manager.
Responsibilities
• Manage the rollout of programmatic material-handling equipment at scale, with or without an included controls package.
• Oversee customer-facing documentation and modifications to existing core-product controls platforms.
• Manage a team that designs and implements controls and electrical systems for material-handling equipment and provides integrator support during pre-go-live installation and commissioning, post-go-live hypercare, and tier-2 peak support.
• Lead and supervise an Electrical and Automation Controls Engineering team; support team members’ development and promote teamwork.
• Set the team’s vision, mission, and goals; participate in strategic and business planning.
• Maintain high engineering-design standards and facilitate continuous improvement through the product lifecycle.
• Work with Sales, Product Management, Product Engineering, Application Engineering, Global Engineering Standards, Production Control, Materials Management, Assembly, Testing, and Quality.
• Manage team resource capacity, commitments, tasks, and priorities; coordinate consistent deliverables across engineering and operations.
Requirements
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent education and experience; at least five years’ industrial electrical and controls design experience.
• Industrial control-system design, including bills of material, schematics, and control-panel hardware.
• PLC/PAC software design and code development; electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
• Knowledge of fabrication and design-for-manufacturing/assembly principles.
• Leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds and climb ladders.
• Travel 10–20% for equipment installation, start-up, or troubleshooting, sometimes on weekends and holidays to meet customer schedules.
• Onsite in Hanover, Maryland.
Preferred qualifications include at least two years as an engineering lead, supervisor, or manager, material-handling controls/automation experience, Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical, PTC Windchill PLM, applicable OSHA/NFPA/UL/IEC standards, Allen-Bradley Studio 5000, Siemens TIA Portal, and industrial network communications.
Compensation: Salary range $110,000–$170,600. The role may be eligible for commissions, discretionary incentives, or production incentives under the applicable plan. Benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability insurance, paid time off, 401(k), flexible spending, life and AD&D insurance, long-term care, tuition reimbursement, and additional voluntary benefits. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.
Apply through the employer’s official application page: https://jobs.laitram.com/en_US/JobsLaitram/ApplicationMethods?jobId=8375
