Senior Engineering Manager – Warehouse and Distribution 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 Senior Engineering Manager to join our Automation platform team - based in Europe, Copenhagen – Denmark, or India.

We offer

Being part of a fast-growing, dynamic, and impactful team, you, as Senior Engineering Manager, will be entrusted with the unique opportunity to build, manage, focus, and develop an engineering team 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 engineers, complete hands-on technical work, and provide leadership on complex 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 great engineering talent and making a difference on a global level.

Key responsibilities

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

• Develops transport and logistics, automation engineering competencies within the function to ensure support of projects and services.

• Delivery accountability and implementation ownership of our IoT and Automation Platform for the enablement of Maersk Logistics and Services with a focus on warehouse and distribution modernization/automation initiatives, products, and deployments.

• In charge of defining lean way of working (WoW), processes & systems to manage workstreams that drive automation platform development.

• Drive compliance & adherence to processes amongst the staff.

• Engages in dialogue with external stakeholders such as suppliers, consultants, and warehouse operation management teams to develop new service areas in close collaboration with, Maersk Logistics and Services Business Product Owners, Functional Product Owners and Solutions Engineers, Innovation and Growth.

• Drives 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

• Drives engagement and performance within multiple projects

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

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

• Work closely with Warehouse Operations teams, Functional Product Owners, Solution Engineers, and other peers & stakeholders on regular basis to bridge the gap between technology and business.

• Drive career growth for your team members by understanding their aspirations and connecting them with Maersk’s strategy

• Drive cross-functional cooperation to attract world-class talent and provide leadership and technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members to build and maintain top performing and engaged team.

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

• Have financial and budgetary responsibility for the area of delivery.

We are looking for

• A total of 10+ years of terminal 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 teams with a successful record of building and leading effective teams

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

• Experience in automation, Automated fleet controls, Execution Systems, and Warehouse Control Systems hybrid cloud setups for large scale industries

• Experience in technical and technology design and implementation of automated sortation systems, AGV, and ASRS solutions.

• Proven record of scaling up successful POC’s automated facility analysis and operation optimization of integrated assets to meet/align customer requirements.

• Experience in building solutions that can be horizontally scalable, distributed, resilient, fault-tolerant, and monitored

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

• Experience in building software integrated solutions in an agile/DevOps environment as well as managing teams in that space

• Good understanding of device attributes hereunder performance of equipment under circumstances of industrial environments

• The ability to continually identify team improvements (retrospective analysis, maturity assessments, and OKR’s
and KPIs) 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