**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...