Step into this high-impact role where you’ll ensure alignment, readiness, and success across multiple projects and cutting-edge technologies like BK25, MCS, DMS, and Monorail.What we offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Medical & Dental Plans
Global Opportunities to Develop Your Career
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Tasks and Qualifications:What You'll Do: As our Controls Manager, you’ll be a linchpin in our operations. Your role will include:
Crafting and managing resource schedules for software design, development, and commissioning phases across various projects.
Allocating engineering resources while working closely with Controls Lead Engineers to match profiles, skills, and certifications to project needs.
Overseeing and tailoring controls task lists for optimal execution during project phases.
Coordinating with line managers to ensure engineers receive proper training, tooling, and certifications.
Communicating team rotations, readiness, and availability to project stakeholders.
Supporting project teams with technical alignment, senior-level approvals, and resource-related solutions.
You’ll also maintain expert oversight of Dematic’s key technologies and lead by example, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
Qualifications We're Looking For: We’re seeking someone who has:
A degree in Controls, Automation, or Controls Software Engineering.
Significant experience in industrial automation projects with a focus on controls software.
A proven ability to plan resources and coordinate engineering teams effectively.
Knowledge of controls engineering phases, including design, emulation, and commissioning.
Familiarity with pallet and case conveyor technologies.
Skills in MS Project, JIRA, and other project management tools.
Proficiency in applying design standards such as the Machinery Directive.
Additionally, experience in functional safety, large-scale international projects, and matrix organizations is highly desirable.
Your Personal Attributes: To thrive in this role, you’ll need:
Exceptional coordination and interpersonal skills.
An analytical, organized, and proactive mindset.
A solutions-oriented approach to dynamic environments.
The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrix organization.
Willing to travel within EU – approx. travel time up to 30-40% of the year.
People Leadership: Dematic values its people. As Controls Manager, you’ll engage and inspire your team through:
Regular one-on-one and team communications to drive career development and promote success.
Leading by example and embodying KION’s shared Group Values and Leadership Principles.
Offering input and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Why Join Us? At Dematic, we’re powering the future of automation and logistics, offering you the opportunity to grow your career. Be part of a global team that prioritizes excellence, innovation, and collaborative success.
Take the next step in your career with Dematic. Apply today to become our Controls Manager in EMEA and help us shape the future of industrial automation!
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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
