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Sr. Manager - Principal Engineering

KION Group
Grand Rapids, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 May 2025
šŸ’° $182,600/yr($124,500/yr – $182,600/yr)

About the role

Dematic is looking for a Sr. Manager, Controls Principle Engineering to join out growing team! This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineering leader to lead a growing team with our Project Engineering group, supporting complex solutions to our customers!

What we offer:

  • Career Development

  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits

  • Pay Transparency

  • Global Opportunities
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Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.Ā 

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 $124,500 to $182,600 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

Principal Engineering:

  • Lead a team of principal engineers on day-to-day tasks such as:
  • Support system design reviews at the pre-flight stage and during the award status
  • Engage in PLC emulation reviews to ensure product complies with standards developed
  • Provide expertise on system level drawings to ensure the Controls engineering team is fulfilling all technical and regulatory requirements
  • Develop lessons learned from project sites to update standards and deploy those lessons learned within new projects
  • Lead a team of engineers who are experts in safety and compliance.Ā  Ensure products and teams understand the latest safety and regulatory requirements and how to engage that within our product solutions
  • Lead a team of engineers on VAVE / cost save initiatives.Ā  Drive improvements to designs with improved efficiency and technology, but also cost save ideas
  • Hold monthly (as needed) workshops with out PLC code engineers.Ā  Understand controlled and variable parameters and how to deploy those messages to site.
  • Provide a high level of expertise to projects – Technical support, problem resolution, leadership and technical integration
  • Technical training to both new team members within the Principal team, but also within the project teams
  • Engage with other business units (Amazon, East, West) to identify common design solutions, lessons learned and ideas to deploy cross-functionally to projects
  • Provide technical support and guidance to solutions development (cost estimating) team on new specifications and product requirements

Project Execution

  • Ensure all team members have the tools and training to perform required tasks in all work locations safely. Promote safety culture across organization with a focus on zero incidents and 100% compliance.
  • Ensure accuracy and achievement of performance KPIs for quality, on-time delivery, and cost. Proactively clear roadblocks to KPI target attainment for project teams.
  • Foster a culture of compliance through open communication and by empowering all team members to raise potential compliance concerns through the available channels.
  • Manage project execution risk through validation of project inputs (as-sold project documentation and the project schedule), effective project staffing strategies and comprehensive adherence to standard work and quality processes.
  • Participate in pre-sale technical reviews with Sales & Solution Development. Review for technical and costing accuracy.

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Financial

  • Ownership of short-term monthly forecast across assigned projects independent of resource reporting.
  • Manage costs throughout the month at the project level and take action as necessary. Communicate unplanned events to the Project Manager and engineering lead

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KION Group

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