The Role
Leads automation and integration activities across pre-sales, supplier evaluation, controls architecture, software interfaces, project execution, testing, commissioning, localization, and capability development. Coordinates PLC, HMI/SCADA, warehouse automation, material handling, ERP/WMS/WES/WCS, AGV/AMR, and industrial networking interfaces while overseeing technical deliverables, risks, documentation, and supplier performance.
Summary Generated by Built In
- Pre-Sales Support & Solution Engineering
- Support customer discussions and translate requirements into practical controls, software, and integration scopes.
- Prepare budgetary and detailed estimates covering PLCs, panels, field devices, safety systems, industrial networks, HMI/SCADA, software interfaces, engineering, testing, and commissioning.
- Review supplier proposals for technical completeness, compliance, exclusions, interfaces, and risks.
- Define supply boundaries and support solution architecture, controls philosophy, interface concepts, scope documents, and technical proposal inputs.
2. Supplier Identification & Technical Evaluation
- Develop and maintain a capable supplier network for PLC and controls engineering, WCS/WES, conveyor and ASRS controls, AGV/AMR integration, HMI/SCADA, and industrial networking.
- Assess supplier competence, capacity, references, standards, documentation, service capability, and commercial competitiveness.
- Conduct technical bid comparisons, support negotiations, and establish reusable cost benchmarks and estimation templates.
3. Controls & Software Integration Engineering
- Define and review controls and integration architecture, including PLC hardware, I/O, industrial networks, communication protocols, HMI concepts, and safety interfaces.
- Coordinate interfaces among ERP, WMS, WES, WCS, PLC systems, ASRS equipment, conveyors, cranes, shuttle systems, sortation, AGVs/AMRs, and peripheral equipment.
- Review FDS, interface specifications, I/O lists, electrical drawings, and supplier software design documents.
- Support interface mapping, data-point definition, exception handling, test-case preparation, and end-to-end validation.
4. Project Execution & Implementation
- Act as technical owner for controls, software, and system integration during project execution.
- Monitor engineering deliverables, interface milestones, approvals, testing plans, supplier actions, risks, deviations, change requests, and open points.
- Coordinate with customer IT/OT teams, equipment suppliers, software partners, global stakeholders, project managers, and site teams.
- Lead or support design reviews, FAT, interface testing, SAT, commissioning, ramp-up, performance testing, and handover.
- Ensure completeness of final documentation, source-code handover requirements, backups, licences, manuals, test records, and training deliverables.
5. Localization & Capability Development
- Develop standard controls concepts, specifications, checklists, architectures, and BOMs for AWE projects in India.
- Support standardization of PLCs, drives, safety devices, sensors, panels, networking components, and field hardware.
- Drive localization, value engineering, cost optimization, make-or-buy assessments, and lessons learned for future projects.
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The Company
What We Do
Jungheinrich is an international, family-owned manufacturer and provider of intralogistics solutions. It designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of material-handling equipment, including forklifts, serving businesses that need efficient systems for the movement, storage, and handling of goods. Founded in Hamburg in 1953, the company combines industrial equipment manufacturing with logistics expertise and operates as an international provider for warehouse and supply-chain needs.
