Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Technical Strategy & Architecture: Own the end-to-end technical strategy for robotics and ASRS capabilities across the program; define reference architectures, subsystem boundaries, and interface patterns; set performance/reliability targets and design principles; and ensure solutions scale across sites, vendors, and operational profiles.
  

• System Integration Leadership (OT/IT/Software): Lead the integrated technical solution across PLC/HMI, safety PLC, robot/ASRS controllers, and WMS/WES/WCS/EMS; establish robust interface control (message contracts, state models, exception handling, recovery); and drive architectural decisions across OT networks, industrial protocols, and middleware to meet availability and cybersecurity expectations.
  

• Technical Governance & Design Assurance: Establish and run technical governance (design reviews, architecture boards, readiness gates) for layouts, electrical/controls, safety, and software; ensure traceability from business requirements to test evidence; set engineering quality standards (naming, alarms, diagnostics, documentation); and approve deviations with clear risk acceptance and mitigation plans.
  

• Commissioning, Readiness & KPIs Oversight: Define commissioning and qualification strategy across multiple workstreams (FAT/SAT, integrated testing, cutover, hypercare); lead complex issue triage and root cause efforts; and ensure throughput, accuracy, availability, and recovery KPIs are achieved with a sustainable operating model before acceptance.
  

• OEM/Integrator Technical Oversight & Commercial Influence: Act as the senior technical authority for robotics/ASRS OEMs and integrators; shape scope and technical assumptions that drive cost and schedule; review submittals and change requests; negotiate technical trade-offs; and hold partners accountable for documentation, training, spares, and supportability aligned to SLAs.
  

• Functional Safety, Compliance & Risk Leadership: Own the safety-by-design approach for automated systems (risk assessments, safeguarding strategy, LOTO, E-stops, safety validation) and align with site EHS; lead hazard closure and safety acceptance; and ensure operational readiness includes maintainability, training, escalation paths, and a reliability plan that sustains performance post go-live.
  

• Program-Level Planning, Resourcing & Technical Risk Management: Provide technical leadership for integrated schedules and dependency management across vendors and internal teams; forecast resourcing for controls/software/commissioning; identify and retire technical risks early (capacity, resilience, network, software, safety); and communicate trade-offs, contingencies, and decision points to senior stakeholders.
  

• Standards, Knowledge Management & Operating Model Handover: Establish reusable standards and templates (ICDs, control narratives, alarm/diagnostic philosophy, test protocols, as-built requirements) and ensure disciplined change control; drive a clean transition to Operations/Maintenance with training, troubleshooting playbooks, spares strategy, and clear ownership for sustaining engineering across the asset lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  

• 10+ years of experience delivering industrial automation systems, including robotics and/or ASRS solutions, with significant responsibility for architecture, integration, and commissioning in warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing environments.
  

• Recognized technical authority with a track record of driving architecture decisions, resolving high-severity cross-domain issues, and influencing outcomes with senior stakeholders (Operations, IT/OT, Engineering, vendors) through go-live and stabilization.
  

• Deep experience authoring and governing controls/software deliverables at scale (reference architectures, control narratives, alarm/diagnostic standards, test strategies, network/security architecture) and implementing disciplined readiness gates (design, FAT, SAT, ORR).
  

• Expert-level troubleshooting and structured problem solving across electrical, controls, software, and mechanical interfaces; able to lead war-room triage, drive root cause to closure, and implement preventive countermeasures.
  

• Proven experience leading multi-vendor technical delivery (OEMs, integrators, software providers), including design assurance, FAT/SAT leadership, punch-list governance, acceptance criteria, and driving complete turnover documentation and training.
  

• Strong command of industrial networking and OT/IT integration concepts (e.g., Ethernet/IP, Profinet, OPC UA, VLANs, time sync) with the ability to shape network segmentation, availability, and cybersecurity requirements for automation systems.
  

• Demonstrated success delivering measurable performance outcomes (throughput, accuracy, uptime, recovery) and building sustainment mechanisms (monitoring, alarm strategy, PM/CM plans, spares, training) that persist beyond hypercare.
  

• Exceptional communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence executive decisions, align cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers/commissioning leads through complex technical delivery.

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