Senior Automation & Controls Engineer Manager

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A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We are an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. We’re looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us. Apply Now!

Your Opportunity

Our team members receive industry-competitive salaries and are eligible for great benefits packages: 

• Competitive Pay 

• Annual Bonus Earning Potential 

• Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More 

• Education benefit available to full and part time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment. 

Open to moving? We will help! Ask about our Relocation Assistance packages!  

In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth, professional development, and tuition assistance. 

As part of our Continuous Improvement team, you would analyze data, draft implementation plans for production process optimization, and execute process and performance management systems & controls across a fleet of 35+ plants. Seeking out ways to maximize efficiencies by eliminating the waste of valuable resources that directly impact our overall operating costs. You are instrumental to the manufacturing of Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, and our other product brands, to meet the needs of our customers and consumers.

The Senior Automation and Controls Engineering Manager will be responsible for helping define and update the long-term technology roadmap of the company and leading a talented group of continuous improvement, engineer, maintenance, and operations professionals across hardware and software disciplines to develop and design automation solutions. The Senior Automation and Controls Engineering Manager will combine fundamental controls and process engineering knowledge with recent advances in automation, delivering creative solutions that solve real-world manufacturing problems.

Core Responsibilities

• Develops and implements the manufacturing vision, strategy/technology roadmap that supports the convergence of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

• Collaborates across functional groups to ensure strategy and technology roadmap meets the needs of the organization and support delivering results

• Drives the right technology choices for automation and presents the technology roadmap for both immediate and long-term growth.

• Combines deep process engineering understanding and machine learning capability to create scalable controls and manufacturing solutions.

• Takes the business problems and derives to a technology solution that may encompass one or more products and services, ensuring it aligns with business objectives and fits into the technology roadmap of the organization.

• Monitors and evaluates external technology trends that could impact the company. Conducts research and case studies on leading edge automation technologies and makes determinations on the probability of implementation.

• Responsible for the development of the standard software and hardware architecture(s) for all automation projects and will work with multiple teams for coordinated implementation. Interface with IT to ensure continuity of IT/OT across the company

• Partner externally with food processing equipment vendors, universities, technical consulting individuals/companies to create and prove new systems and technologies and to leverage external resources as required.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions. 

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or univ