Director, Controls Engineering

Director of Controls Engineering – London, Ontario

Reporting to the Vice President & General Manager, this role ensures technical excellence, on‑time delivery, budget adherence and effective people leadership across multiple locations, industries, and projects. It involves managing resources, prioritization, capacity planning, and meeting group chargeability targets.

Key Responsibilities

Functional & Technical Leadership

• Accountable for achieving controls engineering department targets aligned with business metrics.
• Accountable for the controls department’s project execution, including scope, budgets, and on‑time delivery.
• Represent controls engineering in senior leadership discussions and business reviews.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical challenges, project risks, and cross‑site operational challenges with strategic plans and follow‑through.
• Ensure controls engineering excellence through active participation and governance in critical project milestone and design reviews using Stage‑Gate methodology.
• Act as process owner to approve and enforce compliance with documented standard processes developed collaboratively.
• Maintain and enhance tools and systems to align operational capacity with commercial strategy.
• Drive alignment across teams for standardized controls engineering practices, resource sharing, and document control.

People Leadership & Organization Development

• Build a high‑performing and scalable controls engineering team with a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical rigor.
• Work with business, divisional leadership, and finance to ensure project and team reporting.
• Lead talent development through coaching, mentoring, training, and direct management of controls engineering leaders and resources.
• Manage resource allocation, performance reviews, and recruitment to meet project schedules and capacity targets.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally to support sales, project management, and executive leadership in strategy and innovation.

Innovation & Technology Development

• Build and manage a team focused on innovation and technology development.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads to assess and develop innovations that support scalability and long‑term competitiveness.
• Research emerging technologies with partners and suppliers to introduce competitive advantages.
• Contribute to company‑level strategic planning and decision making on technical initiatives that improve controls related efficiency and effectiveness.
• Develop and propose business cases and budgets for innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Sales & Applications

• Support winning new business through concept development, costing, scheduling, resourcing, and risk management strategies in collaboration with Sales and Applications.
• Collaborate with the Senior Director, Applications and Sales team to improve quoting tools and processes for improved velocity and clarity.

Project Management

• Collaborate with the PMO and local operational leadership to drive employee experience and engagement, project success, tools/processes/metrics, and business strategy.

Knowledge Management

• Support the Senior Director of Engineering with the development, communication, and adherence of engineering processes, standards, and best practices.
• Implement lessons learned into the controls department when applicable.
• Stay current on industry technologies, trends, strategies, and customer needs.
• Conduct knowledge sharing training and maintain a technical training repository.
• Implement document control systems in line with Convergix strategy.

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in a similar environment and department.
• Post‑secondary degree or diploma in engineering from a recognized faculty or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in custom automation, robotics, and automated mobile robots across automotive, food & beverage, life science, aerospace, or electronics industries.
• Deep hands‑on understanding of industrial control systems, development, and commissioning in a systems integration environment.
• Strong leadership, coaching, mentoring, and team performance skills.
• Strong technical and project management skills.
• Ability to overcome challenges and handle complex situations.
• Well‑rounded skill set in interpersonal, business, and technology areas.
• Experience driving standardization, platform strategies, and transformational initiatives.
• Consistently delivers fair and positive feedback.
• Reliable transportation and willingness to travel internationally.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to feel objects, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, talk, and hear.
• Occasionally lifts or moves up to 25 pounds.

Perks of Being Part of the Team

• RRSP with company match
• Long‑term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Virtual online tele‑health
• Benefits plan including medical, dental, and vision coverage

Values

• Integrity – Respect, Transparency, Commitment
• Excellence – Continuous improvement, innovation, collaboration, communication
• Passion – Momentum, sense of urgency, growth, success, velocity

Accommodation and Equal Opportunity Statement

CONVERGIX Automation Solutions has an accommodation program that provides reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or medical need, please contact Human Resources.

Convergix is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law.

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