Sr. Manager - Principal Engineering

Company: Dematic Corp. (ILD-US)
Location: Grand Rapids
Posted on: May 8, 2025

Job Description:

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
  
  
  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.
  
  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. 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. Drive improvements to designs with improved efficiency and technology, but also cost save ideas
  • Hold monthly (as needed) workshops with out PLC code engineers. 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.
      
      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 leadership as appropriate.
      • Take necessary actions to ensure staffing levels and talent support current and forecasted workload.
        
        People Leadership
        
        • Lead team members by example and by living KION's shared Group Values and Leadership Principles.
        • Engage with peers and people to pulse on sentiment and perceptions. Provide input and recommendations to senior leaders to address opportunities for improvement. Recognize and promote people and team successes.
        • Assess and assign appropriate disciplines and skillsets of resources to successfully deliver engineering content utilizing all available talent pools both internal and external.
        • Identify and implement necessary training to address gaps in resource skills or expertise. Identify high-potential people for technical SME and leadership roles. Identify stretch assignment opportunities with Sr. Manager.
        • Support talent development through active and consistent engagement including 1-1 meetings, real-time learning/coaching opportunities, and training programs.
        • Engage in regular communications with team members via mechanisms such as: 1-1 meetings; project team discussions; peer group meetings; and people feedback, resulting in documentation and tangible examples to support career development, promotion, any necessary Performance Improvement Plans (PIP) and the annual OCTR process.
          
          Initiatives
          
          • Identify opportunities and ideas to improve team KPIs and efficiency. Utilize LEAN tools to improve processes and implement change within the team. Support and participate in business initiatives.
          • Effectively communicate, own the message and implement changes within the team ensuring clear objectives and adherence.
            
            What We are Looking For
            
            • Engineering Bachelor's Degree. Advanced degree a plus.
            • Minimum of 10 years' experience in related field
            • Minimum 8 years' experienceleading teams.
            • Excellent communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills.
            • Ability to solve problems.
            • Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact effectively in a team-based organization and with employees of all levels and backgrounds across all functions.
            • Proficient customer-facing skills.
            • Ability to travel to project sites, customer meetings, support pre-sales activities, suppliers. Up to 25%.
              
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