Engineering Manager

RiseMe; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

M. G. Newell Corporation, Greensboro NC, seeks an Engineering Manager - Automation to lead the Controls Engineering team. You will own assignments, utilization, workload balancing, and associate development while partnering with sales, accounting, and shop personnel to deliver safe, high-quality solutions.

The role emphasizes project execution, quality, and safety with up to ten engineers and ~25% travel. Strong leadership and technical oversight are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• Professional Engineer license is preferred.
• Minimum five years in industrial automation or controls engineering in project-based environment.
• Experience leading planning, prioritization, resources, coaching, and performance management.
• Knowledge of PLC, HMI, SCADA, industrial networking, and electrical controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily activities and performance of the Controls Engineering team; align with project priorities.
• Coach and develop team members through one-on-ones, feedback, training, onboarding, performance reviews.
• Perform regular employee reviews and recommendations for advancement/compensation.
• Own daily resource assignments and priorities; balance skills and workload.
• Monitor capacity, utilization, milestones, and risk; address concerns early.
• Maintain ~25% billable technical/project contribution.
• Ensure projects meet quality, cost, schedule and customer expectations.
• Coordinate with multiple internal groups and suppliers.

Skills

Leadership

Planning & prioritization

Resource management

Coaching & development

Performance management

Hiring & onboarding

Team building

Communication

Automation delivery

PLC/HMI/SCADA

Documentation control

Project management

Office tools/ERP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls/Automation, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Tools

ERP

Microsoft Office

Engineering/document-control system

Project management software

Job description

M. G. NEWELL CORPORATION

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Engineering Manager - Automation

DEPARTMENT: Automation Engineering

SUPERVISOR: Director of Engineering - Automation

PRIMARY PURPOSE

The Engineering Manager – Automation leads the day-to-day people, capacity, and execution of the Controls Engineering team. Reporting to the Director of Engineering - Automation, the role owns assignments, utilization, workload balancing, associate development, project execution, quality, and safety. They will manage and support up to ten (10) Controls Engineers. They will partner with sales, accounting, and shop personnel to deliver safe, high-quality, cost-effective solutions to our customers.

JOB DUTIES

• Lead daily activities and performance of the Controls Engineering team; align deliverables with project priorities and milestones.
• Coach and develop team members through one-on-ones, feedback, training, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and development goals.
• Perform regular employee reviews and provide recommendations for advancement and compensation adjustments to upper management.
• Participate in creation and enforcement of project execution procedures.
• Own daily resource assignments and priorities with the engineering team, balancing skills, workload, and development.
• Review and report on capacity, utilization, workload, and future demand; identify staffing and skill needs early.
• Monitor deliverables, planned versus actual engineering hours, milestones, quality, and risk; address or escalation concerns early.
• Maintain approximately 25% billable technical and project contribution through supporting resource constraints, reviews, audits, startups, and escalations.
• Ensure projects meet quality, cost, schedule and customer expectations through audits.
• Regularly review project scopes, schedules, execution, deliverables, and lessons learned.
• Support automation proposals and estimates by reviewing scope, hours, resources, commissioning needs, assumptions, clarifications, exclusions, and risks.
• Coordinate with Controls Technicians, Electrical Designers, Panel Shop, Sales, field resources, Accounting, coordinators, Sub-contractors, and other engineering groups.
• Communicate project status and coordinate with cross-functional teams on project-related items.
• Complete people-management and administrative responsibilities, including review and approval of time sheets, expense reports, and performance documentation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls/Automation, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• Professional Engineer license is preferred. Minimum five years of industrial automation or controls engineering experience in a project-based or engineered-to-order environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in planning, prioritization, resource management, coaching, performance management, hiring, team building, and communication.
• Experience with automation delivery, including estimates, risk, vendor coordination, installation, startup, commissioning, and Project Manager/customer collaboration.
• Working knowledge of PLC, HMI, SCADA, industrial networking, electrical controls, and related automation platforms.
• Experience with controls and electrical documentation, including narratives, I/O lists, panel drawings, schematics, functional descriptions, and test records.
• Understanding of engineering labor budgets, utilization, planned versus actual hours, project financials, and margin impact.
• Experience with structured controls workflows, design reviews, change control, testing, startup, commissioning, and continuous improvement.
• Understanding of key Project Management concepts including scope, schedule, and cost.
• Able to effectively and efficiently support and run large projects.
• Knowledge of control-panel design, fabrication, testing, installation, and field commissioning is preferred.
• Strong Microsoft Office, ERP, project management, and engineering/document-control system skills.
• Ability to travel to customer and vendor facilities; approximately 25% travel required.
• Collaborative, accountable, adaptable, hands‑on leader aligned with a team‑oriented, family‑owned company culture.

M. G. Newell Corporation has been in business for over a century providing sanitary process components and integrated process systems to the food, dairy, citrus, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. With divisions in Greensboro, North Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, our services extend to the Mid-West, Mid Atlantic, and southeastern United States.

M.G. Newell is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Learn more at www.mgnewell.com