Job Description

Here is a phenomenal opportunity to develop advanced solutions that enhance the efficiency of our packing lines!

Core Responsibilities

• Long-Term Vision & Road mapping: Expert in defining and maintaining a 3–5-year roadmap for automation and controls, focusing on flexibility, sustainability, modularity, and digital integration aligned with corporate growth.

• Ideation, preparation of Proof of Concepts towards design of automation application for new manufacturing equipment

• Emerging Technology Scouting: Skilled in evaluating and industrializing new technologies like AI-driven inspection, adaptive robotics, and digital twins, from concept to scalable deployment in high-performance packaging.

• Architecture-Level Systems Thinking: Proficient in designing modular, scalable automation architectures that enhance format changes, throughput, predictive reliability, and quality in future packaging lines.

• Innovation Portfolio & Risk Management: Capable of defining both incremental and breakthrough innovations, balancing technological risk, return on investment, and manufacturability while maintaining operational continuity.

• Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Proven ability to lead multi-functional innovation programs with R&D, suppliers, digital teams, and operations, co-developing next-gen packaging solutions and setting global technical standards.

• Collaborative Team Development: Foster collaboration within multi-functional teams, engaging partners and customers during and after new automation equipment ramp-up.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Join us in building innovative automation solutions under the Industry 4.0 umbrella, bringing LEGO bricks to children worldwide. As a key player in our new Virginia factory, you'll drive incremental innovation in the automation of highly automated manufacturing equipment for packing lines. Your role focuses on improving and optimizing new machinery, primarily from a technical software perspective. We seek your expertise in automation and programming, ideally with knowledge from multiple suppliers. Your hands-on experience will be essential to our success as we launch this new facility.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience in automation, specializing in Allen Bradley and B&R PLC systems, including installation, troubleshooting, development, design, and programming.

• Proficient in evaluating various automation brands, with the ability to assess their strengths and weaknesses.

• Skilled in using Studio 5000 and B&R Automation Studio software.

• Experienced in Ethernet/IP and OPC UA protocols.

• Hands-on expertise in functional safety, including safety controllers, electrical diagram design, and troubleshooting.

• Proficient in reading and writing equipment design requirements and ability to read and understand electrical drawings.

• Great teammate with a deep understanding of multicultural environments.

• Capable of finding opportunities and challenges with a well-rounded perspective.

• Some experience in or curiousity for machine vision systems and  Python for scripting, automation, and general programming tasks would be an advantage.

• Willingness to travel 20-50 days per year.

Please note that we do not offer relocation support for this position. Internally within the organization, this role is at a Senior Manager specialist level.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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