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# Automation & Integration Engineering Manager

- **Company:** Accentuate Staffing
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Vision, Health Information Management, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Systems Architecture, Digital Twin, SAP Integration Solutions, Enterprise Integration
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.accentuatestaffing.com/submit-resume/?job_id=31792

## About the Role

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.

## Description

* 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.


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