Lead Industrial Engineer - Terminals Automation Solutions

Opportunity

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company and member of the A.P. Moller Group. Connecting and simplifying trade to help our customers grow and thrive. With a dedicated team of over 80,000, operating in 130 countries; we go all the way to enable global trade for a growing world. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, A.P. Moller - Maersk is developing solutions that meet customer needs from one end of the supply chain to the other.
It is an amazing time to join Maersk IoT and Automation platform team as we are accelerating our ambitious journey of modernizing our terminal infrastructure across the globe.
To support this exciting endeavor, we are currently looking for a Lead Industrial Engineer to join our Automation platform team.

Please note this role can be performed from anywhere in Europe

We offer

Being part of a fast growing, dynamic and impactful team, you, as Lead Industrial Engineer, you will be entrusted with the unique opportunity to providing and developing automation solutions that meets the needs of the business and works well within the overall automation technology landscape. You draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor process engineers, complete hands-on functional and technical work, and provide technical, operational and process leadership on complex automation technology issues in the company. While deploying your solid skills in automation engineering, product design and product deployment/delivery, you focus on building and nurturing global cross functional relationships and make a difference on a local, regional, and global level.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for providing technology leadership to the team to ensure automation solutions and services get built based on defined specifications, terminal operations requirements, and automation industry best practices in a timely manner.

• Contributes to or has responsibility for technical project management on technologically complex projects (including new build products and retrofit/modifications) which could involve multiple disciplines, business units or suppliers.

• Leads projects or parts of projects/automation solutions and services within one or more technical discipline

• Has accountability for project plan, scope, cost, work schedule, design and build, and contractual deliverables for own automation workstream of a project/solution within area of expertise or for a full project

• Leads the implementation within projects or own team of lean way of working (WoW), processes & systems to manage workstreams that drive automation platform development.

• Executes complex or specialized projects, conducts design analysis on logistics solutions, components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, manufacturable, and reliable

• Drives engagement and performance within multiple projects

• Contributes to day-to-day improvements in own area of expertise

• Drive compliance & adherence to processes amongst the staff.

• Work with partners, product owners, scrum masters and the scrum team do release and sprint planning and provide team commitments accordingly

• Engages in dialogue with internal and external customers in order to ensure right project/automation solution focus in close collaboration with APM Terminals Automation Program

• Has responsibility for automation solution/product design for automation projects and tenders including providing total costing

• Acts as single point of contact for assigned projects, and automated solutions, coordinating engineering teams and external parties (integrators and systems suppliers) to assure automation solution integration and project completion within targets

• Leads delivery of new products and product deployment through management and coordination of internal resources and enforcement of automation requirements/standards and supplier/vendor service level agreements

• Leverages comprehensive understanding of how own discipline/automation integrates with other disciplines

• Develops global standards and guidelines for operations processes, terminal design and automation solutions for all types of terminals taking into account the automation industry best practices

• Provides knowledge and ideas for development of solutions to complex problems or projects

• Provides technical leadership and assists in training less experienced engineers

• Work with the team to publish research and represent Maersk at top-notch professional venues.

• Contributes to high customer satisfaction

We are looking for

• A total of 10+ years of industrial automation industry experience with 5+ years of experience in architecting and/or developing and delivering end to end products/solutions for ports and container terminals.

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in managing cross functional teams with a successful record of building relationships at global, regional, and local level

• Expertise in providing operationally critical technology services on the industrial automation solution side.

• Experience in industrial process design, automation requirements for complex installations, automated equipment, Execution Systems and Equipment Control Systems

• Experience in design, building and integration of solutions which can be horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient, fault tolerant and monitored

• Expertise in modern logistics process, automation technology instrumentation and controls; operation data acquisition and safety systems; automation integration and automation control/execution systems

• Good understanding of operation/functional KPI’s hereunder performance of equipment under circumstances of industrial environments

• The ability to continually identify solutions improvements (retrospective analysis, maturity assessments and OKR’s
and KPI’s) and proactively manage the process and performance and act on stakeholder feedback.

• An understanding of the trade-off between technical investments and continual delivery of business outcome

• The ability to provide direction, support, and guidance for others hereunder mentor, code-review and contribute to product development

• Independently lead automated solution design, resource planning and estimation

• Understanding automation industry trends and relevant innovations in solution delivery methods

• Excellent communication and cross-functional cooperation capabilities – a team player with positive Can-Do, result-oriented attitude

• Experience with Information Security management - Maintain the data confidentiality & integrity and relevant compliance of information systems.

• Understand product lifecycle implementation of OT/Automation architecture solutions and associated industry (IT/OT) industrial automation standards (ISA95, ISA99…)

At Maersk we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to: gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.