Automation lead hos Taigatech i Göteborg

What you'll do

The role is both technical and leadership, and the balance shifts from project to project.

Own the machine-side interface. You decide how our system talks to the customer's PLC. Signals, timing, handshakes, watchdog, fail-safe behaviour. You write the functional description the work is built from.

Lead our automation partners. Sometimes that means writing the code snippet yourself. Sometimes it means explaining what needs doing and reviewing that it came out right. You decide which.

Make the technical decisions on the customer's plant. Upgrading a component for better results, or moving to a different fieldbus, is yours to propose and drive. The implementation itself normally goes to a partner.

Be the customer's main contact through the project — scope, timeline, status, time and cost reporting. You take over from sales and carry the delivery home.

Clear the path. OT network access, change control, and the dialogue with the site's automation and IT departments, so the installation can be done quickly and safely.

Work closely with our ML and vision engineers. Translate what the process needs into what the model has to output, and the model's limits back into what we can promise.

Make it repeatable. A reusable interface specification, a commissioning checklist, and a growing network of automation partners to deliver alongside.

Who you are

You need experience, but we don't care how many years you have behind you. We care about what you've done.

You have programmed PLCs in live production, on at least one major platform — Siemens TIA/S7, Beckhoff, ABB, Mitsubishi, Codesys or equivalent

You have hands-on experience of industrial networks: Profinet, Profibus, EtherCAT, Modbus TCP, OPC UA or equivalent.

You have extended control systems you did not write with retrofits onto existing, running equipment

You have written functional descriptions that someone else built from

You have stood on site during commissioning, with production running and someone waiting

Drives the project forward by keeping people accountable, asking the right questions, and pushing decisions when it matters — even when that means a difficult conversation.

Swedish and English, and you sometimes travel to sites

Bonus

Sawmill, pulp and paper, or other heavy process industry

Vision systems, sensors or measurement equipment

Experience on the supplier side, responsible for subcontractors

Machinery directive and risk assessment on modified lines

Python and basic data analysis

What we offer

You'll be our first dedicated automation hire. You set the delivery process, and it becomes the standard we scale on. As delivery volume grows, the function gets built around you.

You'll work directly with the founders, with our ML engineers and with the mills themselves. Office in Gothenburg.

We review applications on a rolling basis.