Automation Engineering Manager, NASC RME

About the role

The Automation Engineering Leader provides strategic leadership and technical direction for automation engineering teams across regions. They oversee both site-based and regional automation engineers and managers, driving operational excellence and setting standards, best practices, and technical frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple teams of automation engineering managers and engineers across regions, establishing training programs, mentorship frameworks, and career development pathways to build technical capabilities and leadership skills.
• Provide direction and technical support for complex engineering issues across the network, driving technician standard work, root cause analysis, and implementing scalable solutions to eliminate critical asset downtime.
• Drive Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for automation teams across your network, ensuring each team is compliant with operational standards and targets.
• Drive adoption of control systems standards, optimal code/parameter sets, and technical frameworks for PLC/PC controllers, SCADA/OEE platforms, and material handling systems.
• Drive network-wide continuous improvement initiatives focused on upskilling the organization and large-scale projects, coordinating cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder relationships to achieve business objectives and operational excellence, with travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industrial controls and automation experience
• 7+ years of process/production environment PLC-controlled automation and issue diagnosis experience
• 7+ years of robotics work cells and control systems experience
• 7+ years of Siemens, Allen-Bradley or Codesys Ladder Logic and structure programming experience
• 7+ years of electrical theory, robotics, controls components, and automated equipment experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Automation Engineering, or 7+ years of PLC programming or automation engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Automation Engineering
• Master's degree, or Six Sigma Black Belt
• Experience maintaining, troubleshooting, programming, and designing HMI and control network components
• Experience programming with RSLogix5000, Studio 5000, FT View, and other controls software platforms
• Experience leading Controls in manufacturing or complex industrial environments

Benefits

Amazon offers competitive compensation packages including comprehensive healthcare benefits starting on Day 1, matching 401(k) program, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave. Additional benefits include lightweight fire-resistant daily wear and composite toe safety shoes for your safety, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.