Senior Director Global Automation (Tuas)

At ResMed, we’re on a mission to change lives with every breath — and our global supply chain is rapidly transforming to enable growth, resilience, quality, and value at scale.

• Define and execute a multi-year enterprise automation and systems integration roadmap.

• Deliver lighthouse automation programs that establish scalable standards.

• Lead global governance, architecture, and deployment frameworks.

• Build and scale the automation operating model across manufacturing and distribution.

• Ensure automation investments translate into measurable improvements in throughput, quality, service, cost, safety, and reliability.

Enterprise Strategy, Architecture and Governance

• Define the global automation and systems integration vision aligned to supply chain network strategy and growth plans.

• Collaborate with Digital and Operational leaders to establish global standards and reference architectures for OT/IT integration, including:

  • PLC / SCADA

  • MES

  • WMS / WCS

  • Robotics and material handling systems

  • Historians and IoT platforms

  • Edge computing and analytics layers

• Advise automation investment prioritization, lifecycle management, cybersecurity posture, and value realization.

• Implement engineering rigor across the solution lifecycle: requirements definition, validation, commissioning, ramp, documentation, and change control.

Automation Programs and Scalable Deployment

• Lead a portfolio of automation initiatives across manufacturing, test, packaging lines, intralogistics, and distribution automation.

• Convert automation outcomes into standardized deployment kits, including:

  • Architecture patterns

  • Technical specifications

  • Training frameworks

  • Cybersecurity standards

  • Operational handover criteria

• Drive repeatable multi-site deployment using segmentation models and maturity-based roadmaps.

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with OEMs, integrators, and software providers.

Global Automation Operating Model

• Establish and lead a Global Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) or community of practice across regions.

• Define clear RACI models spanning Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Digital.

• Embed reliability-by-design principles including predictive maintenance, spares strategy, and uptime management.

• Integrate automation performance into daily management systems and KPI governance at site level.

• Partner cross-functionally with Quality, Regulatory, EHS, Finance, PMO, Procurement, and Digital.

Systems Integration and Performance Visibility

• Ensure seamless integration of automation platforms with enterprise systems and upstream/downstream processes.

• Standardize performance dashboards across sites, including:

  • Throughput and cycle time

  • OEE and yield

  • Labor productivity

  • Service level (OTIF)

  • Safety performance

• Leverage simulation, digital twins, and statistical modeling to validate capacity and ROI before deployment.

• Ensure cyber-secure-by-design implementation across OT environments.

Capital Portfolio and Benefits Realization

• Own automation business case governance, including baseline definition and post-implementation verification.

• Manage a global automation CapEx and OpEx portfolio.

• Implement KPI-driven stage gates from concept through stabilization.

• Ensure formal operational handover criteria are achieved prior to project closure.

• 15+ years of experience in industrial automation, systems integration, manufacturing engineering, or supply chain automation.

• 7+ years leading multi-site or enterprise-level transformation programs.

• Demonstrated success delivering lighthouse automation and scaling globally across factories and/or distribution centers.

• Strong expertise in OT/IT convergence and enterprise integration architectures.

• Experience with robotics, AS/RS, conveyors, AMRs/AGVs, automated test or packaging systems.

• Proven senior stakeholder leadership and operating model transformation capability.

• Strong commercial acumen in managing OEMs, integrators, and technology partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related). Advanced degree preferred.

• Verified annualized financial benefits from automation initiatives.

• Reduced pilot-to-scale deployment cycle time.

• Sustained automation uptime at or above agreed service levels.

• Measurable improvements in end-to-end lead time and service levels.

• Adoption of standardized automation frameworks across the majority of global sites.

• Established global governance, training, and certification pathways.

This is a senior enterprise leadership mandate to define the next generation of automation across ResMed’s global operations network.

You will:

• Set the global automation strategy.

• Build WEF accredited Lighthouse capabilities and scale them globally.

• Design the operating model required to sustain long-term performance.

• Directly influence resilience, speed, quality, safety, and service outcomes.

• Build the world class global team of automation strategy and execution experts

Join ResMed and help shape the future of intelligent, connected, and scalable manufacturing and distribution operations.

We are shaping the future at ResMed, and we recognize the need to build on and broaden our existing skills and continue to attract and retain the world’s best talent. We work hard to offer holistic benefits packages, provide flexible work arrangements, cultivate a workforce culture that allows employees to grow personally and professionally, and deliver competitive salaries to our team members. Employees scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for benefits. This position qualifies for the following benefits package: comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, sleep care management, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), commuter benefits, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and tuition assistance. Employees accrue fifteen days Paid Time Off (PTO) in their first year of employment, receive 11 paid holidays plus 3 floating days and are eligible for 14 weeks of primary caregiver or two weeks of secondary caregiver leave when welcoming new family members. 

Individual pay decisions are based on a variety of factors, such as the candidate’s geographic work location, relevant qualifications, work experience, and skills.

At ResMed, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.  A reasonable estimate of the current base range for this position is: $191,000 - $287,000 USD.

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