Senior Controls Engineer

Dematic; Wauwatosa (WI); On-site; USD 108,000 - 158,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Competitive compensation

Pay transparency

Global opportunities

Job summary

Dematic seeks a Senior Controls Project Engineer to manage engineering deliverables from kickoff to customer acceptance. You will translate customer requirements into tasks for engineering, coordinate across Dematic departments, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with quality.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in engineering or PM, a bachelor’s in engineering, and strong client focus. Travel up to 40% may be required in a global, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 8+ years in engineering or project management.
• Strong customer focus with results delivery.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate technical requirements into engineering deliverables and tasks.
• Identify resources and assign tasks across engineering teams and suppliers.
• Ensure output quality by aligning with standards and processes.
• Identify and resolve issues to avoid project impact.
• Monitor and manage project and team KPIs to meet targets.
• Deliver work packages on time and within budget per PM.
• Serve as main contact for engineering deliverables with PM, installation, procurement.
• Ensure specs for third-party components are complete with ME/CE collaboration.
• Provide input on schedule and resource estimates with SIM; influence standard designs.
• Align performance and skills with line managers; plan resources.
• Track progress and report pacing; update progress with ME/CE Leads and SAE.
• Prepare project status reports, financial forecasts, and schedules.
• Support risk management; document escalation and PSR/PVRs.
• Lead technical reviews and post-mortems for continuous improvement.

Skills

Project leadership

Customer focus

Communication

Problem solving

Matrixed organization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

The Senior Controls Project Engineer manages and oversees all engineering deliverables vital to execute the project from kick‑off through customer acceptance. Partnering closely with the Project Manager, the Senior Controls Project Engineer translates the customer technical requirements for the project into defined tasks for Engineering and ensures those tasks are met timely, on budget, and with quality. This role identifies and assigns tasks to appropriate teams and coordinates all activities across Dematic departments such as Engineering, CoEs, Software, and third‑party providers. This is a multi‑disciplinary role that reports dotted line to a Project Manager and solid line to an Engineering leader!

What We Offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefit
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $108,000 - $158,400 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa now or in the future.

What You Will Do In This Role:

• Translate the project contractual technical requirements into deliverables and tasks for the engineering teams (including design/layout, emulation, order entry, drawings, and commissioning)
• Identify needed resources across engineering teams and with external suppliers and assign tasks across the project team.
• Ensure a high degree of quality of output for all deliverables and the entire solution via alignment to established standards for processes, engineering quality, and standard work.
• Identify and resolve issues that affect engineering tasks to avoid negative impact on the project.
• Monitor and manage project/team performance and ensure KPIs are met.
• Deliver the work package assigned by the Project Manager on time and within budget.
• Act as the main point of contact for project management, installation, procurement, external suppliers, manufacturing, etc. regarding all engineering deliverables.
• Ensure completion of all necessary specifications for third‑party components, resale, etc. are accurate and complete; collaborating closely with ME/CE Leads as needed to ensure completion.
• Together with the SIM, provide Solutions Development input on project schedule and engineering resource estimates and availability and influence the use of standard designs.
• Align with line managers about performance, skill set, and availability of project engineering resources.
• Track engineering progress and ensuring project is pacing to schedule; align with ME/CE Leads and SAE as needed to report progress.
• Crafting project status reports, financial forecast, and schedule updates
• Support the project manager in risk management and risk mitigation actions by documenting, escalating, and managing project risk, preparing PSR / PVRs
• Lead technical reviews and conduct post‑mortem with PM to feed continuous improvement.

What We Are Looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, or Mechatronics).
• Prior experience leading project technical deliverables, prefer material handling project experience.
• 8+ years of experience in engineering or project management.
• Exceptional customer focus and ability to deliver results.
• Demonstrated problem solver with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to navigate, influence and operate in a strongly matrixed global organization.
• Ability to travel up to 40%