Automation & Integration Engineering Manager

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary controls and robotics engineering team, including hiring, performance feedback, mentoring, and succession development.
• Set technical priorities, assign resources, manage team capacity, and provide escalation support so projects meet safety, quality, schedule, budget, and customer commitments.
• Guide automation architecture across controls, robotics, motion, vision, industrial networking, and machine-to-enterprise integration.
• Establish reusable software, electrical-design, documentation, testing, commissioning, and engineering-quality standards.
• Partner with customers, Sales, Project Management, and Operations to develop solutions, evaluate technical risk, support proposals, and resolve delivery challenges.
• Advance continuous improvement through engineering metrics, standardization, simulation, virtual commissioning, and practical adoption of emerging tools.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with deep technical credibility across PLC/HMI/SCADA platforms, robotics, motion, machine vision, and industrial networks. This is a working-manager role for someone who can coach engineers, shape system architecture, resolve escalated technical issues, and connect automation projects to customer and business goals., * Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required.

• At least 10 years of industrial automation engineering experience, including 4 or more years of formal people leadership or management.
• Expert-level knowledge of PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, motion control, machine vision, industrial networking, and electrical control architectures.
• Demonstrated success developing engineers, allocating resources, resolving conflict, and balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical escalation.
• Experience delivering custom automation, robotics, machine-building, or systems-integration projects for internal or external customers.
• Strong communication, engineering judgment, safety discipline, and business awareness; FDA-regulated automation, MES/ERP integration, Ignition, digital twins, or virtual commissioning experience is preferred.

Accentuate Staffing has partnered with an established industrial automation and engineered-systems organization to recruit an Automation & Integration Engineering Manager. This leader will guide a controls and robotics team, strengthen engineering standards, and help deliver complex customer solutions safely, reliably, on schedule, and within budget.