Engineering Manager - Automation
ABB · Alpharetta, GA
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Controls
- Travel
- 30%
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 11 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management controls role at ABB (industrial) in Alpharetta, GA. , you will have the opportunity to manage a team of designers/engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective, and timely automation and industrial controls solutions to customers.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Automation
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 30% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Georgia: typical posted base $86k–$120k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 18 controls engineer openings in Georgia, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Georgia plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 17 other live controls postings in Georgia.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- PLC 83%
- ✓ Automation 83%
- Robotics 44%
- AutoCAD 28%
- Team leadership 28%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 22%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- The posting says about 30% travel. Between which sites?
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responsibilities
- ◆Ensures delivery of technical automation solutions according to customer
requirements
and participates in customer meetings to drive growth and expand existing projects.
- ✓Allocates resources effectively, balancing workload and ensuring optimal team productivity.
- ✓Oversees project planning, execution, and closure to ensure delivery within scope, schedule, and budget while managing technical risks.
- ✓Drives team performance to ensure deliverables are met on time and in line with contract specifications, safety, cybersecurity, and quality requirements.
Our Team Dynamics
Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.
for the role
- ◆Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of Engineering experience OR equivalent years of experience required
- ◆2+ years of leadership experience preferred
- ◆Proven expertise in project and engineering risk management, with the ability to apply agile methodologies, design thinking, and data-driven insights to solve complex problems and drive effective decision-making
- ◆Prior experience within the automation, industrial controls, programming or similar industry highly preferred
- ◆Strong leadership and people development skills combined with the ability to provide technical consulting, coaching, and guidance
- ◆Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time; Valid Passport with no barriers is required
- ◆Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
What's in it for you
We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger
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This position reports to
Director Engineering & Services, Americas
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B&R Industrial Automation, a part of ABB's Automation Business Segment, seeks to hire an Engineering Manager. In this role, you will have the opportunity to manage a team of designers/engineers to deliver high quality, cost effective, and timely automation and industrial controls solutions to customers. Each day, you will formulate plans and allocate resources to meet the agreed contractual and financial targets. You will also showcase your expertise by initiating, coordinating, driving, and overseeing team development and continual improvement of processes and procedures to strengthen the engineering and design capability.
The work model for the role is : Hybrid with a preferred location in Alpharetta, GA. #LI-Hybrid
Health, Life & Disability
- •Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan .
- •Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- •Vision benefit
- •Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- •Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- •Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
- •Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
- •Long Term Disability – 60 % of pay – Company paid . Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- •Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
- •P aid P arental Leave
- •Employee Assistance Program
- •Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- •Employee discount program
Retirement
- •401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- •Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
ABB provides 11 paid holidays . Salaried exempt p