Director of Production Automation and Process Engineering

CI Solutions is expanding its production capacity and preparing to open a new production facility including the addition of four to five automated UV digital printing systems.

We currently have dedicated project management production management and engineering resources. This role will work alongside those teams with a specific focus on production automation systems integration and scaling the operation from a single production line to multiple coordinated production units.

The initial focus will be developing a complete understanding of the existing equipment and end-to-end production workflow. This leader will then define how the operation must change to support multiple production lines efficiently. They must understand the intricacies of moving from one line to many including job routing equipment utilization shared resources staffing maintenance quality control production visibility redundancy and exception handling.

The primary objective is to build a scalable and increasingly automated production model that can sustainably reduce standard lead times from approximately 20 business days to 710 business days without sacrificing print quality personalization accuracy data integrity or service reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the strategy for scaling CI Solutions production environment from a single-line workflow to multiple coordinated production units.
• Clearly articulate the business case for production investments including expected capacity labor impact throughput improvement operating risk cost and return.
• Define how jobs should be scheduled routed prioritized balanced and reassigned across multiple production units.
• Design processes that prevent equipment expansion from creating additional manual handoffs disconnected workflows or new production bottlenecks.
• Determine which production functions should be centralized and which should be managed at the individual line level.
• Establish a scalable operating model for shared resources such as data preparation prepress quality control maintenance material handling packaging and shipping.
• Automate data validation personalization setup job creation proofing production release job routing inspection reconciliation sorting labeling and reporting wherever practical.
• Define the software integration and reporting capabilities required to manage multiple production lines.
• Partner with engineering and software teams to translate production needs into clear system requirements and prioritized development work.
• Lead the planning and operational launch of the new production facility.
• Support the installation commissioning acceptance testing and production ramp-up of 4-5 additional automated UV digital printing systems.
• Validate that the facilitys electrical service environmental controls ventilation networking equipment layout material flow safety systems and supporting infrastructure meet the needs of a multi-line production operation.
• Develop standards for equipment configuration calibration UV curing ink adhesion color consistency registration white-ink applications preventive maintenance and changeovers.
• Design the production environment for resilience so that equipment maintenance or failure does not unnecessarily stop the entire operation.
• Establish measurable standards for cycle time throughput equipment utilization uptime work in progress spoilage rework labor efficiency personalization accuracy and on-time completion.
• Work closely with production management on execution while maintaining ownership of automation process design capacity planning and scalable production architecture.

Required Experience

• 10 years of progressive experience in print manufacturing production automation process engineering or industrial operations.
• Demonstrated experience scaling an operation from one production line to multiple coordinated lines or production units.
• Experience designing automated workflows that connect data intake production equipment quality control and fulfillment.
• Direct experience with large-format industrial or high-volume UV digital printing.
• Ability to translate business goals and operating constraints into technical equipment software facility and staffing requirements.
• Experience developing capacity models and business cases for equipment automation and facility investments.
• Experience installing commissioning and completing acceptance testing for new production equipment.
• Strong understanding of job routing production scheduling line balancing bottleneck analysis preventive maintenance redundancy and process control.
• Experience working across production engineering software project management and executive leadership.

Why Join CI Solutions

CI Solutions develops secure identity and credentialing solutions for schools and other organizations. For more than 30 years we have built our business by earning the trust of our customers partners and employees. We value long-term relationships approach our work with integrity and take pride in delivering products our clients depend on every day.

We are a small agile and fast-paced company where employees have the opportunity to take ownership drive meaningful improvements collaborate across departments and see the direct impact of their work.