Senior Manager - Controls Engineering (Manufacturing Automation)

Location: Marion, North Carolina, United States. Onsite role; applicants must already be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

Salary: $152,000–$209,000 annually, plus potential discretionary bonuses.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare products and solutions focused on saving and sustaining lives.

What you will do

• Lead strategic planning and execution for the North Cove Controls Engineering organization.
• Set multi-site engineering, automation, optimization, and digital manufacturing strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineering teams through goal setting, succession planning, and technical cross-training.
• Improve OEE, throughput, process reliability, equipment performance, process capability, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Direct capital projects, automation upgrades, equipment modernization, robotics, industrial networking, analytics, and Industry 4.0 initiatives.
• Standardize controls architectures, programming practices, cybersecurity, documentation, project execution, budgets, and technology roadmaps across multiple plants.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechanical, Chemical, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 8 years of relevant controls, automation, manufacturing, or engineering experience.
• At least 4 years of technical management and leadership experience, including team, resource, budget, and project management.
• Experience leading capital projects, automation implementations, controls upgrades, and OEE improvement initiatives in manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of controls engineering, industrial automation, manufacturing technologies, project management, engineering metrics, and process optimization.
• Strong understanding of PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, industrial networks, motion control, robotics, machine vision, data analytics, and manufacturing control architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on day one.
• 160 hours of paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and additional leave programs.
• 401(k) employee matching and an employee stock purchase program.
• Tuition reimbursement, educational assistance, flexible spending accounts, and childcare benefits.
• Work focused on continuous improvement, collaboration, accountability, and healthcare impact.