Senior Team Lead (Controls)

Job Opportunity: Senior Team Lead – Controls

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Senior Team Lead – Controls

leadership, technical expertise, and global project exposure

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 15+ Controls Engineers, ensuring skill and competency development.
• Manage team escalations, daily resource allocation, hiring, and subcontracting activities.
• Identify training needs and implement structured training programs.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering, Project Management, Service, and R&D teams as a consultant.
• Monitor project risks and opportunities, driving improvements across teams.
• Ensure system performance validation through thorough

  FAT/SAT testing

  .
• Troubleshoot and resolve control system issues to minimize downtime and disruptions.
• Drive

  continuous improvement initiatives

  and contribute to department KPIs.
• Provide technical oversight during commissioning and ensure smooth customer handovers.
• Willingness to travel internationally (short-term) for project execution and team management.

Key Competencies

• Strong leadership with proven experience managing

  15+ engineers

  .
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in global, high-demand project environments.
• Strong planning and organizational abilities with a focus on delivery within

  time and budget

  .
• Proactive, innovative, and improvement-driven mindset.

Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of

  Siemens PLC

  (mandatory) and

  Allen Bradley PLC

  (preferred).
• Hands-on experience in the design and execution of integrated control systems.
• Ability to align control designs with mechanical, electrical, and software project goals.
• Skilled in preparing and executing detailed project plans and schedules.
• Experience in driving standardization and process improvement across multiple projects.
• Practical involvement in commissioning and customer delivery phases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in

  Electronics, Electrical, or Instrumentation Engineering

  (or related field).

• 10–12 years of experience

  in PLC programming (Siemens required; Allen Bradley a plus).
• Prior experience in

  Airport Baggage Handling Systems

  or

  Parcel Handling Solutions

  strongly preferred.

Interested Candidates Can Share Their Updated Resume On jeena.sunil@evokehr.com