Global Sustaining Controls and Vision Engineering Manager

Founded in 1976, Samtec is a privately held, $950 million global manufacturer of a broad line of electronic interconnect solutions, including High-Speed Board-to-Board, High-Speed Cables, Mid-Board and Panel Optics, Precision RF, Flexible Stacking, and Micro/Rugged components and cables. Samtec Technology Centers are dedicated to developing and advancing technologies, strategies and products to optimize both the performance and cost of a system from the bare die to an interface 100 meters away, and all interconnect points in between. With 40 international locations and products sold in more than 125 different countries, Samtec’s global presence enables its unmatched customer service.

Summary/Objective: Lead and develop the global sustaining controls and vision engineering teams responsible for designing, building, programming, deploying, and troubleshooting electrical, pneumatic, machine vision, machine learning, and related software systems for manufacturing equipment. Ensure solutions meet internal customer time-to-market needs, associate safety expectations, inspection and quality requirements, scalability needs, and applicable compliance standards.

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities:

• Manage global sustaining controls and vision engineering teams supporting the dynamic requirements of Samtec operations and driving the advancement of new technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for solutions that meet global process and machine safety, quality, compliance, repeatability, maintainability, and scalability standards.
• Lead the global sustaining controls and vision engineering teams in prioritizing projects, managing resource allocation, project communications and progress tracking to ensure on-time successful completion.
• Lead and develop sustaining resources for core competencies across electrical hardware design, controls programming, machine vision, machine learning, and software development.
• Establish and maintain best practices, design standards, programming standards, and consistent global solutions for the Sustaining teams that enable the Samtec roadmap.
• Work collaboratively with internal customers and cross-functional teams to resolve production equipment, inspection, controls, and software issues.
• Collaborate and work with other Samtec engineering teams to develop and standardize processes and equipment designs.
• Support the planning and execution of capital appropriation requests for development of new equipment and optimization projects. Support production teams for duplicate equipment builds / integrations.
• Develop and maintain team KPI’s to track performance and measure the impacts to the business.
• Establish analytics and machine learning into the workflows of the global teams. Work to proliferate and enable Samtec’s Scada system across released machine platforms.

“The responsibilities as defined are intended to serve as a general guideline for this position. Associates may be asked to perform additional tasks depending on strengths and capabilities”

Preferred Experience:

• 7 - 10 years related engineering experience in manufacturing.
• 3-5 years of management experience.
• Proficient in control relays, pneumatic solenoids, pneumatic controls, motion controllers, servomotors, stepper motors, etc.
• Motion Controller and PLC programming experience (Trio Motion Controller preferred).
• Operator Interface programming experience (Red Lion preferred).
• Knowledge and understanding of the SDLC, practices and patterns.
• Operational knowledge of various programming languages and data storage technologies including Visual Studio, C#, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Mongo DB, Angular, Blazer, Node, MongoDB, Dev Ops, etc.
• Knowledge and understanding of PID loop control.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Working knowledge of 3D design software (preferably SolidWorks)
• Excellent technical, problem solving and analytical abilities.
• Must be able to sit / stand for at least 90 consecutive minutes.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a relevant engineering degree (or equivalent experience).

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