Director of Automation and Controls

Red Kite Recruiting; Minnesota; Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Red Kite Recruiting presents an opportunity for a maintenance, engineering or automation leader to unite three facilities, elevate reliability, and embed technical depth across the organization. The role focuses on building a consistent strategy, improving uptime, and developing internal capability for controls and automation.

The ideal candidate brings strong PLCs/controls experience in highly automated manufacturing, with preference for multi-site leadership and a track record of partnering

Qualifikationen

• Experience in food, beverage, meat or other highly automated manufacturing environments.
• Multi-site leadership experience is highly valued.
• Strong working knowledge of PLCs, controls, automated equipment, preventive/predictive maintenance and complex troubleshooting.
• You don’t need to program every PLC, but must lead the people who do.

Aufgaben

• Lead and develop maintenance leaders across three facilities.
• Build a consistent maintenance and reliability strategy across sites.
• Improve uptime, reliability and equipment performance.
• Strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Build internal expertise around controls, automation and troubleshooting.
• Develop technicians and transfer technical knowledge.
• Partner with OEMs and hold vendors accountable.
• Support capital projects, equipment upgrades and future automation initiatives.

Kenntnisse

PLCs & controls

Automation leadership

Preventive maintenance

Predictive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Vendor management

Jobbeschreibung

The Opportunity

Each plant already has maintenance leadership. Your job is to bring those teams together, identify opportunities across locations, build consistency, and elevate the technical capabilities of the organization. The company has invested significantly in modern processing and packaging technology and now wants to build more of the technical expertise needed to support that equipment internally rather than relying heavily on OEMs and outside technicians.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing maintenance leaders across three facilities
• Building a consistent maintenance and reliability strategy
• Improving uptime, reliability and equipment performance
• Strengthening preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Building internal expertise around controls, automation and troubleshooting
• Developing technicians and transferring technical knowledge
• Partnering with OEMs and holding vendors accountable
• Supporting capital projects, equipment upgrades and future automation initiatives

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a maintenance, engineering or automation leader who combines strong technical depth with the ability to lead people and build systems.

Experience in food, beverage, meat, protein or another highly automated manufacturing environment is strongly preferred. Multi-site leadership experience is highly valued.

You should have strong working knowledge of PLCs, controls, automated equipment, preventive/predictive maintenance and complex troubleshooting. You don't need to personally program every PLC, but you need enough technical depth to lead the people who do.

Why This One?

The plants exist. The equipment investment has been made. The teams are in place. What hasn't been fully built yet is the larger maintenance, automation and reliability strategy.

That allows the right leader to put their fingerprints on how multiple facilities approach maintenance, controls, technical training, vendor relationships and equipment performance for years to come.