Senior Manager, Industrial Eng & Automation — Growth Driver

Virginia Transformer Corp; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Virginia Transformer Corp. is seeking a Senior Manager of Industrial Engineering & Automation to lead hands-on process engineering and automation initiatives in a low-volume, high-mix production environment.

You will assess bottlenecks, optimize layouts, and specify practical tooling and controls to boost safety, quality, labor productivity, and capacity on the factory floor. The role requires coordinating with maintenance, IT/OT, facilities, and operations to deliver measurable improvements,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial, mechanical, manufacturing, electrical, or automation engineering.
• 8+ years in manufacturing/process engineering or factory automation with demonstrated project leadership.
• Experience designing production methods, analyzing labor/equipment utilization, and installing industrial equipment in a working factory.
• Knowledge of PLC-driven equipment, process controls, equipment safety, capital budgeting, and industrial material handling.
• Ability to work daily with operators, supervisors, maintenance, vendors, and plant leadership.
• Experience measuring labor content and line/process capacity on high-mix industrial products with large physical handling constraints.
• Experience writing equipment functional specifications and validating production benefits after commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Study coil winding, core cutting/stacking, tank fabrication, welding, assembly, oil processing, and related manufacturing processes to identify losses and improvement opportunities.
• Develop time studies, standard work, labor-hour baselines, workstation layouts, material-flow maps, and department capacity analyses.
• Analyze setup time, machine downtime, crane waits, excessive transport, staging congestion, and quality-related rework.
• Work with manufacturing supervisors to pilot practical methods and verify output gains under actual transformer product mix and shop conditions.

Skills

Project leadership

Industrial engineering

Automation design

Lean improvements

PLC controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

PLC systems

CNC/robotics

MES/data capture

Job description

Virginia Transformer Corp. is seeking a Senior Manager of Industrial Engineering & Automation to lead hands-on process engineering and automation initiatives in a low-volume, high-mix production environment.

You will assess bottlenecks, optimize layouts, and specify practical tooling and controls to boost safety, quality, labor productivity, and capacity on the factory floor. The role requires coordinating with maintenance, IT/OT, facilities, and operations to deliver measurable improvements,