Teams at Kahler Automation Corporation

Coordinates industrial projects from order entry through completion, serving as the primary customer contact and aligning Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Production, and Service. Responsibilities include project kickoff, scheduling, requirements tracking, customer communication, change orders, delivery and commissioning coordination, ERP/CRM updates, financial monitoring, risk escalation, and project closeout. The role is onsite in Fairmont, Minnesota and requires approximately 20% travel.

Leads the Controls Projects team, overseeing project delivery, quality, workload allocation, technical execution, mentoring, performance management, and process improvement. Provides technical direction for PLC, HMI, SCADA, and industrial communications work; reviews deliverables; supports estimating and troubleshooting; maintains templates and documentation; and facilitates agile sprint planning, reviews, and team accountability. The role combines hands-on automation engineering with supervision of remote team members and occasional customer project collaboration.

Provide phone-based troubleshooting and remote diagnosis for company software and hardware, install and configure software/peripherals, support field technicians, instruct users, perform minor repairs, assist internal software testing, and complete HubSpot and ERP documentation.