Installation Supervisor

Job Description

Position Summary


The Installation Superviso r leads onsite automation installations, coordinates project teams, and helps ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and on schedule.


What You’ll Do

• Safety: Maintain a safe, clean, and professional worksite.
• Daily coordination: Lead onsite meetings covering targets, safety, priorities, and open issues.
• Installation leadership: Coordinate engineers, project managers, installers, contractors, customers, and internal teams.
• Schedule oversight: Monitor milestones and escalate schedule concerns.
• Documentation: Maintain safety logs, reports, issue lists, and meeting notes.
• Compliance: Enforce safety procedures and required PPE use.
• Communication: Share customer, contractor, delay, and scope concerns with project leadership.
• Project support: Assist with tooling buy-off, runoffs, schedules, and site organization.
• Relationships: Build productive partnerships with customers, contractors, and installation crews.
• Professionalism: Represent the company with strong communication and customer focus.

What We’re Looking For

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Engineering experience: 2-5 years in control systems or mechanical engineering preferred.
• Field service: 2+ years in a technical, customer-focused field service role.
• Automation background: Installation experience strongly desired; powertrain assembly is a plus.
• Technical skills: Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
• Communication: Customer-focused with excellent attention to detail and professionalism.
• Documentation skills: Ability to read schematics, controls documents, and mechanical drawings.
• Software: Proficiency with Microsoft 365.
• Organization: Strong interpersonal, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Customer support: Ability to address questions, concerns, and complaints effectively.

Requirements

• Work authorization: Authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction and maintain required travel visas.
• Travel documents: Current driver’s license and valid passport required.
• Travel: Willing to travel locally, domestically, and internationally.
• Remote work: Approximately 70% at remote locations, including possible short-notice, weekend, or holiday travel.
• Independence: Self-directed and able to work independently or as part of a team.
• Professional conduct: Honest, ethical, and customer-focused.
• Physical requirements: Able to stand, walk, climb, kneel, crouch, reach, use tools, and work in confined spaces.
• Lifting: Able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Vision: Close vision, color vision, and depth perception required.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary range of $95,000-$105,000.
• Benefits: Generous benefits package supporting employees and families.
• Projects: Challenging automation work with experienced technical teams.
• Exposure: Customer sites, suppliers, affiliates, and advanced manufacturing environments.
• Growth: Hands-on leadership, technical problem solving, and project coordination experience.

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