Senior Automation Program Lead

Vantive; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantive is seeking a senior professional to lead plant automation transformation initiatives, delivering a scalable roadmap across Solutions and Sets. The role requires guiding multi-disciplinary teams, building business cases, and driving measurable efficiency improvements.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in manufacturing automation, large-scale program leadership, and a proven track record of delivering productivity and cost benefits through automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of manufacturing, automation, engineering, operations, or supply chain experience.
• 5+ years leading complex cross-functional automation or transformation programs.
• Proven track record delivering automation-enabled productivity, quality, capacity, labor efficiency, or cost improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the plant automation transformation roadmap for Solutions and Sets.
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of automation, digital, line efficiency, labor productivity, and process simplification opportunities.
• Drive automation initiatives from concept and business case through design, build, validation, deployment, adoption, and sustainment.
• Set clear governance, execution cadence, decision rights, milestones, risks, and escalation paths for automation projects.
• Provide concise leadership updates on project progress, technical readiness, financial impact, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
• Develop automation business cases, capital requests, resource plans, and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with Finance and functional owners to validate savings, ROI, payback, capacity impact, and benefit realization.
• Ensure automation benefits are measurable, auditable, sustained, and embedded into standard work.
• Align Operations, Engineering, Quality, Validation, EHS, Finance, Procurement, Planning and Fulfilment, IT/OT, and external partners to deliver the automation roadmap.

Skills

Automation transformation

Program leadership

ROI analysis

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Automation, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field

Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or automation certification (preferred)

Job description

Vantive is seeking a senior professional to lead plant automation transformation initiatives, delivering a scalable roadmap across Solutions and Sets. The role requires guiding multi-disciplinary teams, building business cases, and driving measurable efficiency improvements.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in manufacturing automation, large-scale program leadership, and a proven track record of delivering productivity and cost benefits through automation.