Job Description
**Job Description**
**Location**
Rahway, NJ (supports multiple sites)
**Role Summary**
This role serves as the senior technical and product leader for pilot plant and manufacturing-facing research automation platforms. The Associate Director is accountable for strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of plant-side automation and OT infrastructure, while also providing hands-on technical leadership and oversight of system integration, cybersecurity, and regulated operations.
This position owns the plant automation technology portfolio end-to-end, from concept and design through validation, deployment, support, and lifecycle management.
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Define and own the strategy for pilot plant and plant-facing research automation platforms
+ Act as technical lead and single point of accountability for plant automation solutions for capital end project deployments
+ Translate business, scientif...
**Location**
Rahway, NJ (supports multiple sites)
**Role Summary**
This role serves as the senior technical and product leader for pilot plant and manufacturing-facing research automation platforms. The Associate Director is accountable for strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of plant-side automation and OT infrastructure, while also providing hands-on technical leadership and oversight of system integration, cybersecurity, and regulated operations.
This position owns the plant automation technology portfolio end-to-end, from concept and design through validation, deployment, support, and lifecycle management.
**Key Responsibilities**
+ Define and own the strategy for pilot plant and plant-facing research automation platforms
+ Act as technical lead and single point of accountability for plant automation solutions for capital end project deployments
+ Translate business, scientif...
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- Location Rahway, NJ
- Job Type Full-time
- Category other-general
- Posted Date June 24, 2026
- Application Deadline July 06, 2026