Automation Engineering Manager

Automation Engineering Manager

Location: Greensboro NC | Full-Time | Travel: <25%

A leading organization in advanced manufacturing and industrial automation is seeking an Automation Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team and deliver innovative automation, robotics, controls, and systems integration solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of automation and integration engineers.
• Provide technical leadership across PLC/controls, HMI/SCADA, robotics, AMRs, vision, motion, and industrial networking.
• Drive scalable automation architectures, engineering standards, reusable software, and documentation.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering, digital twins, simulation, and virtual commissioning.
• Partner with Sales, Project Management, Operations, and customers to deliver successful projects.
• Ensure solutions meet applicable safety, electrical, cybersecurity, and regulatory standards.
• Drive continuous improvement, engineering efficiency, and technical innovation.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering required.
• 10+ years of engineering experience
• Strong industrial automation and systems integration background.
• Expertise with PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, motion, robotics, machine vision, and industrial networks.
• Experience with MES/ERP integration and technologies such as OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, SQL, Ignition, or Node-RED.
• Strong communication, leadership, project, and customer-facing skills.