Integration Group Manager in Exton, Pennsylvania at SunSource

• Provide leadership to the Solutions team through being present daily, weekly update meetings, assigning projects and tasks and providing feedback
• Provide sales support to Solutions business
  • Provide technical assurance and explanation to customer when necessary
  • Approve solutions proposals written by solutions sales engineer, including full scope of work and project description
  • Assist solutions sales engineer in building system BOM and pricing including hourly estimates
• Manage Solutions Activities
  • Assign projects to a “lead” engineer and work with the engineer to facilitate every Solutions project
  • Track and maintain active project status and communicate weekly to sales team and customers the status
  • Purchase and monitor all consumable shop resources
  • Work with purchasing to order and monitor components for customer projects
  • Maintain an organized shop
• System Design – Assign projects to design team + monitor and provide daily feedback
  • Ability to understand and provide guidance on all aspects of Solutions automations projects (Mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, software, etc.)
  • Provide feasibility studies including prototyping components
• Broad range of electro-mechanical technical and product knowledge
  • Capability to wire small control cabinets
  • Capability to construct the designed solutions mechanical components
  • Strong understanding of electro-mechanical systems
  • Maintain a current understanding Applied Controls primary product lines
  • Understanding of industry safety requirements
• Customer Management
  • Maintain Strong relations with Solutions Group customers
  • Ensure regular status updates and contact communication with customers
  • Provide high level customer service
• Company Knowledge
  • Understand all position appropriate company & vendor processes and systems (P21, TDF, EbSync, Siemens, Sick, UR)
  • Meeting etiquette (understand who’s participating, who should participate, meeting location, expected outcome, who’s documenting or notetaking, follow-up actions)
• Product training
• • Maintain training certifications as required
  • Support off-site and on-site trainings as required
  • Support and train internal employees on Applied controls systems and hardware.

Goals:

• To continually grow the Applied Controls Solutions group year over year
• To ensure a continuous steady workflow for the solutions group throughout the year