Controls Lead Engineer

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Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milano, ITA
In-Office
Senior level
Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
The Controls Lead Engineer manages controls engineering activities, ensuring deliverables are met on time, within scope, and budget. Responsibilities include project planning, risk management, resource allocation, and quality assurance across engineering processes.
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The Controls Lead Engineer manages all engineering activities of a project related to Controls Hardware and Software in order to ensure that relevant deliverables are in time, scope, quality and budget and adhere to established standards. The Controls Lead Engineer estimates and manages controls engineering-related project risks, he owns the related planning and scheduling and acts as point of contact for controls engineering. The Controls Lead Engineer functionally reports to the Project Manager in the respective projects or, if appointed, to a Project Lead Engineer. In addition, the role will be involved in full cycle of the project from sales through engineering up to hand over.We offer:

Job Description

  • Career Development
  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits
  • Pay Transparency
  • Global Opportunities

 

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Tasks and Qualifications:

General Responsibilities

  • Identify improvements to engineering process and preparing supporting documentation

 

Project Readiness

  • Support Sales team during sales phase by providing technical advice, supporting estimation effort, project schedule creation and understanding of required engineering skill set
  • Review As sold solution

 

Project Management

  • Ensure that we have resources from Controls Engineering Team with the right skill set in order to execute the project
  • Act as main Controls Engineering point of contact for Project Manager, Site manager, Procurement, Manufacturing, as well as client architect, builder, and design consultants
  • Lead project Controls Engineering teams through task allocation and reporting
  • Create and update Controls Engineering project status reports, financial forecasts and schedule updates (resources updates); ensuring Controls Engineering cost control 
  • Document, escalate and manage Controls Engineering project risks (also preparation of Project Status Report / Project Variation Request)
  • Ensure all project Quality Gates are met for Controls Engineering
  • Conduct regular on-site safety audits when visiting a site; deriving actions
  • Identify and propose Lean improvements
  • Support lessons learned sessions and project closing

 

On time, in quality delivery of key deliverables

  • Ensure that BOMs for Controls Engineering hardware has been done and ordered 
  • Ensure procurement of parts, manufacturing of cabinets, and tender for electrical installation is executed with accordance to the timeline
  • Check and approve specifications for purchase items/services
  • Ensure quality of all necessary documentation to execute installation on site (i.e. schematic drawings) has been provided on time
  • Manage Completion of Design Risk Assessment  and Safety design validation during controls design stage
  • Clarify as early as possible definitions on electrical design that impact customer (TNS or TNCS earthing of power supply locations, etc.)
  • Ensure that check list for the installation has been done and site is ready for commissioning 
  • Ensure delivery of emulated PLC programs and device configurations to Pre-commissioning team
  • Ensure commissioning plan checklists/test creation and provide the update on the progress
  • Transmitting layout, network and schematic drawings to Emulation model building team and Electrical Installation
  • Ensure correct transmittal of all Controls Engineering Deliverables to the Customer i.e. layout drawings, network and schematic drawings
  • Support/assist with preparation of Functional Description Specifications
  • Create Description OOperation, align with technical team and obtain customer approval
  • Ensure the right technical information has been provided for the Customer Service training
  • Ensure project technical documentation is completed, including operator manuals
  • Ensure that Hazard and Operability Study ( HAZOP) so as  risk assessments for the systems and products has been conducted

 

Qualifications and Requirements:

Essential:

  • Working knowledge of PLC systems (Siemens – S7, TIA Portal)
  • 5+ years hands-on experience within an industrial automation environment
  • Experience leading project teams on complex projects
  • Good understanding of project planning, execution, and handover processes
  • Ability to read and interpret technical manuals and Mechanical/Electrical drawings

Desirable:

  • Understanding / Qualification in Machinery Safety
  • Experience in a similar role
  • Working knowledge of ISO standards governing the automated warehouse industry
  • Degree in Engineering (or equivalent technical education)

Other:

  • Willingness to travel approx. 50% across EMEA (depending on project phase)

 

Personal Attributes:

  • Good communication and English skills
  • Organisational and Quality Orientation
  • Effective and team oriented working style
  • Being proactive

 

Other Skills & Abilities:

  • Understanding of MS Project, JIRA, and other project management tools 
  • Ability to make design decisions on a project
  • Understand and use relevant design requirements such as the Machinery Directive and its harmonised standards
  • Demonstrates a high passion and drive
  • Ambitious and willing to go the extra mile
  • Takes responsibility
  • Demonstrates courage
  • Promotes change
  • Learns quickly

Skills Required

  • Degree level of understanding in a technical Engineering discipline
  • 5+ years hands-on experience working within an industrial automation environment
  • Experience leading project teams on complex projects
  • Good understanding of project plans and execution processes
  • Understanding / Qualification in Machinery Safety
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The Company
Hessen
2,544 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales

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