I'm delighted to be recruiting an Automation Manager to join a high performing team based in Mayo. This is a chance to join a highly sought after company where culture and growth are at the forefront.
The Automation Manager is responsible for delivering effective operational support, rapid breakdown response, structured troubleshooting, and leading root cause analysis for automation, control, electrical, and data-related issues. This role leads the Operations Support Help Desk team, ensuring issues are prioritised, escalated, investigated, and resolved in a timely and controlled manner.
What You’ll Do
- Lead day-to-day performance of the automation support team, ensuring timely response and resolution of shopfloor issues.
- Prioritise workload across breakdowns, recurring issues, corrective actions, and planned support activities.
- Participate in operational, breakdown, and root cause review meetings to ensure issues are understood, assigned, and tracked.
- Drive troubleshooting and root cause analysis across automation, electrical, control systems, and data issues.
- Maximise equipment availability by supporting rapid recovery and reducing repeat failures.
- Support HITT activities through technical input, data analysis, and action ownership.
- Deliver automation improvement projects focused on OEE, reliability, and process efficiency.
- Ensure all activities comply with safety, quality, GMP, cybersecurity, and change control standards.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation, Control Systems, or related field.
- Strong experience leading automation or production support teams in high-volume manufacturing.
- Proven ability to manage operational support, including prioritisation, escalation, and follow-up.
- Hands-on experience with PLCs, HMI, SCADA, batch systems, industrial networks, and manufacturing data systems.
- Experience with systems such as Ignition, FactoryTalk, Rockwell PLCs, SAP, WMS, or OEE (desirable).
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capability across technical systems.
- Experience delivering improvement projects focused on OEE, reliability, and repeat issue reduction.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across operations, engineering, IT, and leadership.
- Commercial and operational awareness, balancing priorities, compliance, and risk.
- Strong analytical skills, using data to drive decisions.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and effective in fast-paced environments.
- Experience managing change in manufacturing, including testing, communication, and implementation.
