Lead Controls Architect - Industrial Automation
Wabtec Corporation
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Job summary
Wabtec Corporation is seeking a senior Automation & Advanced Manufacturing controls leader to design, deploy, and optimize industrial control systems across multiple manufacturing sites. You will lead architecture, programming, integration, commissioning, and cybersecurity coordination of PLCs, HMIs, motion control, and robotics interfaces.
You will mentor site controls resources, drive standardization, support capital projects, and advance enterprise manufacturing capabilities with a focus on
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or related.
- 7+ years in industrial controls, automation, systems integration, or advanced manufacturing.
- Leadership of significant controls and capital automation projects.
- Advanced PLC and HMI programming with structured software practices.
- Strong machine safety, motion control, robotics, networking, and process knowledge.
- Experience developing architectures, specs, standards, test plans, and commissioning docs.
- Project leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to travel as required to support sites.
Responsibilities
- Lead controls projects from concept through production launch.
- Develop architectures, functional specs, programming standards, and preferred solutions.
- Program, review, and troubleshoot PLC, HMI, motion, safety, and industrial networks.
- Lead design reviews; verify safety, maintainability, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Develop capital estimates, controls scopes, test plans, and RFQ requirements.
- Lead/vendor reviews, FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup activities.
- Diagnose complex controls, network, motion, robotics interface, and data issues.
- Optimize systems for reliability, cycle time, diagnostics, and performance.
- Replicate successful controls solutions across sites.
- Support Automation & Advanced Manufacturing roadmap and strategy.
- Evaluate emerging controls, connectivity, simulation, and AI-enabled tech.
- Mentor site controls resources and provide senior technical leadership.
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Job description
Wabtec Corporation is seeking a senior Automation & Advanced Manufacturing controls leader to design, deploy, and optimize industrial control systems across multiple manufacturing sites. You will lead architecture, programming, integration, commissioning, and cybersecurity coordination of PLCs, HMIs, motion control, and robotics interfaces.
You will mentor site controls resources, drive standardization, support capital projects, and advance enterprise manufacturing capabilities with a focus on
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