Director of Automation

GEA
📍 Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted June 28, 2026

Job Description

Responsibilities / Tasks

Strategic & Technical Leadership

  • Lead automation software, hardware, and controls engineering teams delivering batch and material‑handling execution systems.

  • Define and execute long‑term automation roadmaps for software and hardware platforms, ensuring alignment with business strategy and emerging technologies.

  • Ensure automation designs and engineering practices comply with all relevant industrial and regulatory standards, including GAMP, FDA, CE, ATEX, IECEx, NEC, EN13849, EN62061, and IEC62443‑4‑1.

  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering quality across documentation, software, hardware, and control panels.

  • Department Planning, Capacity & Governance

  • Create, maintain, and report on departmental resource and capacity plans to ensure delivery against project milestones and business commitments.

  • Conduct regular project reviews with s...

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    Job Details

    • Location Eastleigh, England
    • Job Type Full time
    • Category Operations Specialties Managers
    • Posted Date June 28, 2026
    • Application Deadline August 07, 2026