Automation Department Leader

**Mission statement**:
The Head Automation's primary role involves guiding their team through the development, production, and life cycle management of automation systems integrated into AT equipment. This encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, from the initial development of new equipment to managing client projects and ensuring the ongoing viability of automation solutions.

**1. Development of New Equipment**:

- ** Technical Solutions**: Collaborate with other SKAN units to define automation concepts and solutions, ensuring seamless integration.
- ** Safety and Specifications**: Conduct Functional Safety Analysis (FSA) and develop Functional Description Specifications (FDS).
- ** User Interface**: Establish user-friendly HMI requirements for intuitive operation.
- ** System Architecture**: Design the automation and supervision structure to fulfill FDS criteria.
- ** Components Selection**: Choose appropriate sensors, actuators, and instruments based on FDS.
- ** Electrical Standards**: Define electrical specifications adhering to safety and relevant standards.
- ** Design Review**: Examine automation design documents, including IO Lists, SDS, SMS, and Flowcharts.
- ** Technical Support**: Offer guidance to Automation Engineers, focusing on technical and regulatory knowledge.
- ** Budget Management**: Outline and monitor the automation development budget.

**2. Client Projects**:

- ** Sales Support**: Assist in the quotation process for new functionalities.
- ** Change Management**: Handle client-requested modifications, assessing impacts and managing cost estimations and change controls.
- ** Electrical Modifications**: Update electrical drawings to meet specific client requirements and standards.
- ** Project Execution**: Oversee the automation aspects of projects, ensuring successful delivery to the qualification team.
- ** Engineering Management**: Guide Automation Engineers through changes, qualifications, commissioning, and after-sales service.

**3. Life Cycle Management**:

- ** Change Control**: Address post-delivery software and hardware modifications requested by clients, managing costs and change controls.
- ** Software Configuration**: Oversee software configuration across different equipment types.
- ** Technical Support**: Train and support field and automation engineers for on-site tasks during and post-warranty periods.
- ** Obsolescence Management**: Work with the Life Cycle Manager to predict component obsolescence and propose solutions.

**4. Team Management**:

- ** Leadership**: Coordinate and support internal and external Automation Engineers.
- ** Planning**: Develop and manage work schedules to match project demands.
- ** Resource Allocation**: Ensure the availability of automation resources meets project needs.
- ** Skill Alignment**: Align engineers' skills with project requirements and expectations.
- ** Performance Reviews**: Conduct evaluations to assess and improve team performance.

The Head Automation plays a pivotal role in steering the automation team towards achieving excellence in innovation, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction through strategic planning, expert guidance, and effective management.

**The company**: Our client develops, patents, manufactures and markets equipment that guarantee optimal sterility assurance level and complies with last regulatory requirements, while simplifying the validation and operation processes in the safest way.
**Offer**: Full time Open-ended Contract