Vesuvius plc is a global leader in metal flow engineering, providing a full range of engineering services and solutions to its customers worldwide, principally serving the steel and foundry industries. Vesuvius plc is a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange. With 12,000 employees of nearly 50 nationalities, it has a global presence in 40 countries on 5 continents.
For its head office situated in Ghlin, Vesuvius is looking for its Technical Services Division a (m/f):
Automation Manager
Your role :
The high level of customization and complexity of Robot Casting Technology requires a consolidated and streamlined management of the technical activities to integrate Vesuvius products into customer process and installation.
The automation manager, thanks to his expertise on electrical, instrumentation, automation, process control and robotic fields, his knowledge of the customer process as well as his experience to conduct industrial integrations has the mission to ensure efficient drive of the team in terms of people management and development, resources and activities organization and technical orientation in line with the activity requirements.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide leadership to a group of engineers to drive project activities and define engineering technical tasks.
* Define design solutions to support products development, benchmarking on market technologies and definitions of standards.
* Ensure good exchange between other technical departments such as project management, mechanical engineering, R&D department, purchase department, quality assurance, workshop department and operations to ensure the delivery of automation equipment.
* Provide automation expertise for Electrical, Instrumentation, Control command, Robotics technologies to develop, coach and mentor the automation engineers.
* Follow-up progress on technical project tasks and distribute workload among Automation engineers. Manage planning & resources to ensure deliverables are reached in time.
* Evaluate skills and expertise of the team in order to assess team and personal development plans in terms of technical and soft skills.
* Report progress proactively to the Project Manager and customers. Administrate the work.
* Coordinate technical issues or product continuous improvement opportunities to the relevant Product Manager. Follow-up and drive actions to keep momentum in the Product development based on feedback from the field engineering teams and customers.
* Consolidate and share Design Rules, Procedures, Standards and Best practices across the team.
* Follow-up KPIs and keep them on track. Take necessary actions if needed.
Knowledge, experience and skills needed
* Master’s degree in Automation, Robotics and Mechatronic Engineering.
* Minimum 5 years of experience in robotics and mechatronics, system integration projects.
* People management experience, Team leader experience developing highly engaged team.
* Specific tools/technologies required:
o PLC Hardware & Software (Siemens S7 / TIA), HMI Programming (TIA).
o Process simulation.
o Good knowledge in Automation Field instrumentation: Electrical, Sensors, actuators, IO checks.
o Driving projects and knowledge of useful tools such as MS Project / Planning / FMEA - Risk Analysis / Priorities classifications.
o Basic knowledge in Mechanics, Hydraulics & Pneumatics Design. Understanding functionalities and operations.
o Good knowledge in Machine, Process and People safety: Machine directives (2006/42/CE), Robot safety, Safety functions.
o Ability to implement efficient methodologies for automatic function development.
* Skills:
o Leadership skills and motivational skills to manage team of engineers and experts involved in large scale and high technology projects.
o Organizational skills to drive activities at different stages of a project: Basic engineering, shop tests, commissioning.
o Result oriented: Responsibility to conduct Engineering activities in line with Technical and Project requirements and keep track on schedule.
o Flexible and creative to develop alternatives to proactively overcome technical or resource constraints.
o Practical approach and hands-on capability to support the technical team.
o Conversant in English with good communication skills.
Why apply?
You will hold a key position in an innovative and technical multinational, which allows space for ideas and creativity and is constantly growing.
We are offering you a permanent contract with an attractive salary along with very favourable extra-legal advantages. Career development within the group is a priority that Vesuvius puts in place for its employees.
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