The Automation Strategist plays a key role to ensure that automation ideas translate into automation design projects for our customers. Reporting to the President, the successful candidate will be a trusted partner to customers and bring their manufacturing operations up to Industry 4.0 standards. This position requires a strategic and entrepreneurially minded individual who is well experienced and technically knowledgeable in industrial automation, controls, mechanical and IT/OT who can engage and connect with customers to clearly communicate a vision and strategy for a smart manufacturing environment for their business.
Responsibilities and Duties:
The responsibilities and duties of this position include but are not limited to:
Customer-Focused
- Develops and cultivates a professional working relationship with customers to understand their current manufacturing environment, challenges, and limitations
- Shares a vision with customers for a fully automated, well integrated, and highly efficient smart manufacturing environment
- Partners and consults with customers to strategize their overall automation manufacturing goals, processes, and systems to become a leading Industry 4.0 manufacturer
- Aligns with customers to develop automation strategy documents, plans, and budgets and monitors progress in obtaining strategy goals as quickly as possible to address short-term and long-term goals
- Leads automation projects that are strategically chosen from determining feasibility all the way through to implementation
- Partners with the customer in offering our training and support services, to assist the customer outside of projects
- Champions automation strategy success stories with potential new customers and positions JAE Automation as an industrial automation design leader
Internal Collaboration
- Receives sales leads from the President and collaborates with customers to architect automation projects for JAE Automation
- Works closely with a Project Manager to identify key internal information, such as scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting to scope new automation project details
- Develops a strategic relationship with the Design Manager to discuss relevant customer projects and reviews active projects that the Design Team is engaged in
- Engages Design Team Leads for technical information and support on specific customer projects
- Directs projects from an automation strategy and design point of view and serves as the Project Leader when collaborating with Design Team Leads
- Supports the President and other team members on sales efforts, estimates and proposals as needed
- Communicates weekly with the President to provide status updates on customer goals, strategy, and progress
- Strategically collaborates with the President, Design Manager, and other Managers to create the automation strategy, methodologies, processes, and best practices for JAE Automation customers
Required Skills/abilities:
- 15+ years of relevant work experience in industrial automation systems, automation strategy or design, controls, mechanical design, mechatronics, and IT/OT.
- College diploma or University level degree; MBA is an asset qualification
- Excellent writing skills to contribute to or create proposals, estimates, and automation strategy documentation
- Expert level automation strategy skills to architect, document and communicate project details thoroughly and succinctly
- Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- Expert level skills with all MS Office 365 products
Candidate Profile:
- Results-Oriented
- Decision Making Skills
- Client Service Skills
- Analytical Thinking Skills
- Creative Thinking Skills
- Initiative
- Flexibility
Additional Information:
- A valid Driver’s License and Canadian Passport or B1/B2 visa to enter the USA is required
- Air travel will be required to visit customer locations within North America
- The position can be located anywhere in Canada from a home office
- English language skills are essential
- French and other language skills are assets
- This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package
We welcome résumés from a variety of individuals. Should you require accommodation during the interview process, please notify us when you are contacted.
Résumés can be sent to: careers@jaeautomation.com
