Job Description

Who We Are

Our work matters - robotics is transforming the world of commerce. Every day our intelligent robots are responsible for getting food and merchandise to thousands of stores across North America. We're an industry changer - we created the first and only fully autonomous, end-to-end supply chain solution. Today, we are driving towards even bigger ideas - and we have the people, technology and leadership to fully realize these aspirations. We have theexcitement and ambition of a startup with the benefits and resources of a proven organization.

What You'll Do

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented Industrial Controls Sr. Director who has experience supporting innovative, mission critical, high-volume applications. You will have an enormous opportunity to work within multiple systems researching and identifying the common issues and driving the teams towards resolution to have a positive impact on customer experience. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. You will lead a team of Industrial Control Engineers, Robotic and Vision Engineers in building and supporting high-availability and scalable infrastructure and its automation.

In This Role

• Lead cross functional design

• Provide technical guidelines and best practices (lead by example)

• Prepare forecast for resources, external contractors, and commissioning support

• Drive standardization of design, sensors, actuators, critical performance parts as well as keeping the company updated with latest technology.

• Participate to creation of functional specification for systems and equipment's.

• Discuss and follow-up on project progress with project team leads, ensuring employees deliver on their commitments.

• Drive Cost down and second sourcing qualifications related to the automation components.

• Define guidelines governing the team's methods and standards and challenge their relevancy

• Oversee the development, design, and implementation control strategies for vision, robots and automation equipment using advanced motion controllers, industrial PCs, and PLCs.

• Assist with and oversee selection of outside sources, electrical drives, motors, and controllers from outside suppliers, writing of technical specifications for components

• Guide the development of specifications for design of GUIs and other HMIs.

• Develop and enforce design and coding processes, design reviews, and verification plans

• Maintain processes and procedures for code source control.

• This position requires travel to different customer sites across US & Canada

• Available for on-call support on a rotating basis

• Ability to understand complex technical issues and facilitate resolution. Ability to communicate well with internal and external technical audiences.

• Ability to triage issues based on priority, impact, risk, release timing

What You'll Need

• Strong technical background on Rockwell platform

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 5+ years of development in Rockwell and HMI platforms.

• 3+ years of experience within a leadership capacity of 10+ team members.

• Previous experience leading software development projects - planning, estimating, and overseeing software developers.

• Experience with sensors, actuators and VVFD selection.

• Experience with scripting languages and data log analysis.

• Knowledge of C# a plus

• Skilled in problem analysis and resolution.

• Recognized for leadership and customer-oriented approach.

• A good team player who applies rigor in addressing concerns with a keen eye for quality.

• Capable of working under pressure in a fast-evolving environment where priorities are constantly subject to change.

• Passion for process automation using the right technology for the right business challenge.

• Strong mission to put pro-active solutions in place to prevent future problems and automate processes/build services such engineers can self-service their operational requirements and enhance productivity.

• Experience working with engineering teams in a fast-paced technology and product companies

• Passion for creating and maintaining documentation and troubleshooting runbook.

• Available for on-call support on a rotating basis

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About Symbotic

Symbotic is an automation technology leader reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, AI-powered robotic and software platform. Symbotic reinvents the warehouse as a strategic asset for the world's largest retail, wholesale, and food & beverage companies. Applying next-gen technology, high-density storage and machine learning to solve today's complex distribution challenges, Symbotic enables companies to move goods with unmatched speed, agility, accuracy and efficiency. As the backbone of commerce the Symbotic platform transforms the flow of goods and the economics of supply chain for its customers. For more information, visit www.symbotic.com .

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