Robotics Logistics Technical Lead
Mentor Technical Group View all jobs
- Carolina, PR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own the end‑to‑end enterprise technical strategy for robotics and ASRS capabilities across the program, defining reference architectures, subsystem boundaries, and interface patterns.
- Establish performance and reliability targets, design principles, and scalable solutions across sites, vendors, and operating models.
- Lead system integration across PLC/HMI, safety PLCs, robotics/ASRS controllers, and WMS/WES/WCS/EMS platforms.
- Define and govern interface control standards, including message contracts, state models, exception handling, and recovery strategies.
- Drive architectural decisions across OT networks, industrial protocols, middleware, availability, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Establish and lead technical governance processes, including design reviews, architecture boards, and readiness gates.
- Ensure traceability from business requirements through design, testing, and acceptance evidence.
- Define and enforce engineering quality standards, including naming conventions, alarms, diagnostics, and technical documentation.
- Lead commissioning and qualification strategies across FAT, SAT, integrated testing, cutover, and hypercare phases.
- Drive complex issue triage, root cause analysis, and resolution during commissioning and startup.
- Ensure achievement of throughput, accuracy, availability, and recovery KPIs prior to system acceptance.
- Act as the senior technical authority for robotics and ASRS OEMs and system integrators.
- Shape technical scope, assumptions, and trade‑offs impacting cost, schedule, and system performance.
- Review and approve technical submittals, deviations, and change requests with risk‑based decision making.
- Hold vendors accountable for documentation, training, spares, and supportability aligned with SLAs.
- Own the safety‑by‑design approach for automated systems, including risk assessments, safeguarding strategies, LOTO, E‑stops, and safety validation.
- Coordinate functional safety activities with site EHS and lead hazard closure and safety acceptance.
- Ensure operational readiness includes maintainability, training, escalation paths, and a reliability plan that sustains post go‑live performance.
- Provide technical leadership for integrated schedules, vendor dependencies, and program‑level planning.
- Forecast controls, software, and commissioning resource needs across project phases.
- Identify and retire technical risks early, including capacity, resilience, networking, software, and safety risks.
- Establish reusable engineering standards and templates, including ICDs, control narratives, alarm and diagnostic philosophy, test protocols, and as‑built requirements.
- Govern disciplined change control and configuration management across the lifecycle.
- Drive clean handover to Operations and Maintenance with training, troubleshooting playbooks, spare parts strategies, and sustaining engineering ownership.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of experience delivering industrial automation systems, including robotics and/or ASRS solutions, with significant responsibility for architecture, integration, and commissioning in warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing environments.
- Recognized technical authority with a proven track record of driving architecture decisions and resolving high‑severity, cross‑domain technical issues.
- Deep experience authoring and governing controls and software deliverables at scale, including reference architectures, control narratives, alarm and diagnostic standards, test strategies, and network/security architecture.
- Expert‑level troubleshooting capabilities across electrical, controls, software, and mechanical systems, including leading issue triage and root cause analysis to closure.
- Proven experience leading multi‑vendor technical delivery, including OEMs, integrators, and software providers, through FAT, SAT, commissioning, and turnover.
- Strong knowledge of industrial networking and OT/IT integration (e.g., Ethernet/IP, Profinet, OPC UA, VLANs, time synchronization, cybersecurity).
- Demonstrated success delivering measurable performance outcomes (throughput, accuracy, uptime, recovery) and establishing sustainment mechanisms beyond hypercare.
- Exceptional communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and mentor technical teams.