Manager of Controls Engineering Amazon Modernizations
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Job Location:
Grand Rapids, MI - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 75000 - 165000
Posted on:
06-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Manager of Controls Engineering will be involved with managing day-to-day tactical project execution assessing and growing team capabilities working across other engineering disciplines and department functions to ensure project-wide alignment and helping drive strategic initiatives and continuous improvement opportunities.
We offer:
What We Offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
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 $75000 - $165000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location education experience knowledge and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:
What you will do in this role:
- Own project performance and outcomes of direct engineering team
Provide coaching and guidance to help ensure team member and project success
Ensure project targets are met for quality on-time delivery and cost. Anticipate issues and address proactively
Provide regular reporting of project performance and status to management and peers
Maintain accurate monthly forecasting across assigned projects
Proactively manage direct project budgets and indirect department budgets
Provide input to annual budget regarding staffing indirect spending etc
Attend project turnovers and assess projects for technical cost and schedule risks prior to execution team deployment
Make project staffing decisions based on team skills project priorities and customer visibility
Maintain utilization for individual contributors and coordinate level-loading of team members
Participate in pre-sale technical reviews with Sales and Solution Development teams
Look for opportunity to reduce project risks and develop awareness of customer expectations and demands
Analyzes and understands impact of decisions on business operations
Appraise and recommend changes in current processes or procedures
- Effectively recruit on-board and integrate new hires into the Project Engineering Organization
Drive continuous talent development and performance evaluation through completion of formal yearly OCTR (Organization Capability and Talent Review) and Goal Setting processes
Provide coaching and mentoring gap assessment and training and team member empowerment
Create and maintain a culture of strong integrity communication and collaboration within the team
Set clear expectations and grow team members to be role-models throughout Dematic and externally with Customers
Maintain a Safety-First culture and a compliance to all company policies and standards
Engage in regular communications: 1-1 meetings real-time learning/coaching project team discussions peer group meetings and employee feedback
- Build effective cross-office location and cross-department relationships
Drive team engagement and team visibility throughout Dematic and with Customers
Maintain a feedback loop (lessons learned project variancesetc.) between project execution and Solution Development teams to respond to customer expectations and increase Dematics competitiveness
Develop and drive design and process standards for immediate direct team and expanded LSSMU Engineering team
Drive and support Continuous Improvement and Lean initiatives within the Project Engineering group and promote a culture of continuous improvement
Develop team and individual goals that align with strategic plan and Engineering Department
Recommend changes and improvements where appropriate
What We are Looking For:
BS in Electrical Engineering or related field of engineering
At least (5) years of demonstrated Engineering Management and/or people leadership and material handling and/or logistics automation industry or related experience preferred
Controls equipment competency and ability to learn material handling systems
Experience designing and applying industrial safety standards to customer needs and expectations
Ability to work individually and lead with minimal supervision in remote office and customer site environments
Knowledge of CAD design software including AutoCAD is a plus
Experience with Dematics CET Designer Software (Maestro) preferred
Ability to solve complex problems and recommend cost-effective solutions
Proven communications skills collaboration flexibility and willingness to lead and work as part of a team of solution-oriented professionals
Demonstrated presentation skills group facilitation and ability to effectively interact with customers
Excellent leadership teamwork influencing and interpersonal skills
Excellent organizational analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills
Ability to work under pressure meet deadlines and maintaining composure
Travel approximately 15-25% to Customer or Dematic locations
Positively represent the Engineering organization and Dematic with both internal and external Customers
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We are a leading supplier of forklifts and warehouse equipment as well as automation technology and software solutions for the optimization of supply chains.
