Engineering Manager

Develop an automation architecture for our first of kind pyrolyzer plant in CO, that will include thousands of different data points and nearly one hundred PLCs communicating flawlessly. Ensure the rest of the engineering team has easy access to data acquisition software, and an easy way to visualize the state of the systems. Integrate with operations tech stack to provide data like uptime. Lead the automation engineering team by building a prioritized roadmap based on company priorities, ensuring proper staffing to projects and adherence to deadlines, and executing on those priorities to keep our systems online. Ensure that the fidelity of the solution always meets the problem – know whether a project is an R&D project with several iterations before hitting production or whether you’re building something for our 24/7 operations team. Close the gap between a need identified for automation and controls and the time it takes to execute the work by building processes to enhance this metric. Develop a team of highly competent and curious automation and controls engineers. RequiredTechnical depth on setting up automation, controls, and networking infrastructure at a plant scale to help guide the team on architecture decisions as well as best practices as we embark on our first of kind plant. Ability to synthesize the operational experience into automation and controls improvements via observation and conversations with the operations team. Proven ability to design and implement effective dashboards for monitoring and control at the plant scale, with an emphasis on reducing the number of operators needed to run the plant. Prior experience leading a fast-paced functional team through a myriad of different rapidly changing priorities. An ability to scope project fidelity based on the end customer (R&D equipment vs operations equipment requiring different fidelity, but always prioritizing safety). An eagerness to level up our automation, controls, and electrical engineering teams.