Controls Project Lead (PLC)

Job Description

Job Description

We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Job Description

• The Controls Project Lead (CPL) is responsible for ensuring a successful launch of new programs and kitted systems with regards to Controls, Networks and Robotics found within the CLIENT Vehicle Process Engineering (VPE) environment.
• Participation and support in the development and implementation of Vehicle Process Engineering Controls, Automation, Robotics and Engineering (VPE CARE) standards and specifications during the design through the launch phase of new products are fundamental to this position.
• This is accomplished through the direct leadership of a multi-departmental team of individuals, all with unique skill sets associated with their assigned roles. The scope of this team will span the core functions of VPE CARE in Paint.
• The CPL is responsible for the development and delivery of their team's applications, while leading the way in shaping the culture and craft of their respective team.
• The CPL position is also tasked with conducting regular team meetings to review progress and identify potential obstacles, monitoring projects to meet their technical and business objectives, review of lessons learned, solutions to current and past issues, tracking and updating action registers and coordinating work schedules.
• The CPL is also expected to continuously work towards the development of advanced training and standard processes.
• Supervising and managing controls and robotics integration
• Managing and maintaining open controls & robotics issues pertaining to the designated areas
• assigned, ranging from design to installation issues
• Supporting equipment and tooling build at suppliers and ensuring timing and EEM controls &
• robotics milestones are on track
• Supervising the installation and commissioning of equipment and launch
• Reporting standardized updates to Prg Mgr

Needs to Support in Metro Detroit and Brampton :

Support VPE CARE program goals during launch to include, but not limited to :

Provide management, tracking, resolution, follow up and reporting on the following :

VPE Care Lead for Line Integrators

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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