Success requires deep, hands-on technical mastery of automation and robotics integration; the credibility and influence to set direction across a global network without direct line authority; an intense, urgent focus on delivering substantial, measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost rather than incremental activity; and the ability to experiment quickly, prove out solutions at a single line or plant, and then scale what works decisively across locations and regions. The role sits at the intersection of day-to-day plant operations, manufacturing engineering, and the global automation/robotics supply base — close enough to the shop floor to understand real constraints, close enough to engineering to influence automatable design, and close enough to vendors to guarantee incoming capability.