Job Description

Description

Lead Engineers. Drive Execution. Build Better Processes.

CLX Engineering is looking for a leader who loves helping engineers succeed. You'll manage priorities, balance workloads, improve processes, and keep complex automation projects moving forward. If you're energized by solving problems, developing people, and bringing order to fast-moving environments, we want to talk to you.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers and technicians
• Manage engineering workloads, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across multiple projects
• Drive accountability for project execution, quality, and deliverables
• Partner with Project Management, Manufacturing, Software, and R&D teams to keep projects moving
• Identify risks, resolve bottlenecks, and help teams navigate changing priorities
• Improve engineering processes, standards, documentation, and workflows
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and employee development
• Provide leadership during critical project phases, customer escalations, and commissioning activities

What We're Looking For

• Experience leading engineering teams in industrial automation, controls, manufacturing, or a related technical environment
• Strong project and resource management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-moving organization
• Experience building engaged, accountable, high-performing teams
• Understanding of controls engineering, PLCs, HMIs, system testing, and commissioning practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Proven ability to solve problems, make decisions, and keep projects on track

Travel

• Up to ~40% annual travel depending on project and customer needs

Requirements

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership experience supervising engineering teams in an industrial automation, controls engineering, or related technical environment 
• Proven ability to manage both individual contributors and, as the organization grows, Engineering Managers
• Strong understanding of engineering project scope, goals, schedules, and technical requirements, with the ability to guide execution across multiple concurrent projects 
• Experience with resource planning, workload distribution, staffing decisions, and performance management
• Ability to build and maintain a high engagement culture focused on psychological safety, accountability, continuous learning, and technical 
• Strong technical understanding of PLC programming standards, HMI principles, testing workflows, and system commissioning practices (oversight-focused, not hands on)
• Demonstrated ability to implement, maintain, and improve engineering SOPs, documentation, tools, and processes to support operational readiness and scalability.
• Experience coordinating engineering activities across functions such as R&D, Software, Manufacturing, and Project Management
• Strong communication skills to support cross functional decision making, risk escalation, and executive level updates
• Ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineers at multiple levels, including onboarding, skills development, standards training, and leadership pipeline cultivation
• Experience supporting or leading post project reviews, lessons learned processes, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ability to support field work or commissioning efforts as needed; willingness to travel up to ~50% depending on project demand
• High level of technical problem solving ability and comfort working in a fast paced engineering environment

Desired (but not required): 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field
• Experience with process improvement, Lean, or continuous improvement initiatives
• Experience supporting field implementation or commissioning activities