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Leads automation projects across multiple manufacturing sites, identifying opportunities, defining scopes, managing suppliers, preparing financial justifications and capital requests, procuring equipment, and implementing process improvements. Provides troubleshooting support for automated systems, PLCs, HMIs, and robotic programs while coordinating best practices across facilities. Requires extensive travel, project management, manufacturing automation experience, and collaboration with finance, leadership, and suppliers.

Leads emerging technology development for power electronics and electromechanical systems. Designs, models, prototypes, tests, and validates mechanical systems, enclosures, packaging, actuation mechanisms, and power conversion technologies. Coordinates global multidisciplinary teams, universities, suppliers, customers, and business divisions; develops technology roadmaps, supports commercialization, communicates technical concepts, and advances product designs from concept through lab-validated prototypes.

Develops and expands digital solutions sales opportunities with electric utilities across the Central/Midwest region. Responsibilities include prospecting, opening accounts, building executive and technical relationships, identifying grid modernization needs, shaping solution concepts, leading complex sales cycles, managing CRM pipelines and forecasts, and collaborating with technical and commercial teams. The role requires consultative selling, utility-market knowledge, new business development, and travel up to 50%.

Manages an assigned customer base, sales team, products, and distribution channels to achieve district sales and market-share goals. Leads key customer relationships, account strategies, channel development, pricing, performance reporting, and collaboration with internal teams. The role also focuses on talent acquisition and employee development, requiring strong sales leadership, customer relations, product application knowledge, and travel within the assigned market.

Maintains engineering documentation in PLM systems, implements engineering change notices, updates specifications and bills of material, and reviews part-release workflows. Prepares financial summaries and release statistics for NPI programs, tracks project hours, resources, progress, and performance metrics, and collaborates with organizational stakeholders. Requires analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, plus proficiency with Microsoft Office and Power BI.

Supports electrical infrastructure and power systems projects through cost tracking, scheduling, procurement, vendor coordination, submittals, documentation control, warranty management, revenue recognition milestones, and project communications. The role also handles equipment ordering and configuration, factory acceptance testing, bills of materials, schedule of values, margin reviews, and may manage projects based on their size and complexity.

Provides post-sales technical support for power protection, connectivity, and data center equipment. Troubleshoots customer issues by phone, email, and chat; documents service requests and resolution steps; assists with application support, process improvement, and special projects; communicates product information; and supports team metrics while working rotational daytime shifts.

Leads system-level testing, integration, and validation for power management, power distribution, energy storage, UPS, and related network-connected hardware products. Develops test strategies, executes functional and environmental scenarios, validates networking and cybersecurity functionality, reviews requirements for coverage, and collaborates with cross-functional engineering and product teams. Drives improvements to test processes, laboratory infrastructure, automation, and validation methods while mentoring engineers and communicating quality risks.

Lead sustaining engineering and product improvement initiatives for aerospace electrical and electromechanical products. Troubleshoot hardware, perform root-cause analysis, redesign products, manage component obsolescence, develop and coordinate requalification testing, support supplier transfers, and improve reliability, quality, and cost. Provide technical support to operations, procurement, customer service, suppliers, and customers while developing fault isolation manuals and supporting FRACAS metrics.

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