About Us:
BW Converting is a strategic alliance of resources and services that bring together several Barry-Wehmiller companies — Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), Winkler + Dünnebier (W+D), STAX Technologies, Hudson-Sharp, Baldwin Technologies and Northern Engraving and Machine. These industry leaders offer trusted brands and innovative technologies in the design, manufacture, and service of high-performance converting and packaging machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, hygiene, bag-converting, mailing, and printing industries.
Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.
Job Description:
Senior Leader – Vision Systems Engineering
The Senior Leader – Vision Systems Engineering plans, directs, and oversees the Electrical, Software, and Imaging AI Engineering teams supporting BWCS's Vision product lines. The role's central mandate is to modernize and consolidate several legacy inspection product lines into a single, unified product portfolio, built on a current software stack with GPU-accelerated AI at its core, to deliver the world's leading web inspection systems.
The position partners closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional leaders to align resources and execution with business strategy. It is structured as a development pathway to Director level within 2–3 years, with increasing ownership of strategy, budget, and organizational leadership.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop engineering staff across hardware, software, and imaging AI disciplines.
Build the next layer of technical leads and people managers.
Manage team workload, priorities, and engineering backlogs.
Provide timely, constructive performance evaluations and ensure compliance with BW policies and procedures.
Duties and Responsibilities
Lead the consolidation of legacy vision product lines into a unified platform architecture, defining a common hardware, software, and AI foundation and a phased migration plan for the installed base.
Drive adoption of a modern software stack and GPU-driven AI model integration across the portfolio, replacing fragmented legacy codebases and rule-based inspection.
Own the technology roadmap and end-to-end system architecture: line-scan and area-scan cameras, optics, illumination, acquisition, compute, and integration with machine controls.
Direct development of AI-based defect detection, classification, and root-cause identification on films, nonwovens, paper, and printed substrates.
Establish disciplined processes for image data collection, labeling, model training, validation, deployment, and field performance monitoring.
Partner with Product and Project Management to prioritize work, allocate resources, and support cost analysis, resource planning, and schedules.
Ensure delivery within budget and against monthly financial and operational commitments.
Lead Design Reviews across vision hardware, software, and AI model development.
Manage design partners and vendors (camera, optics, lighting, GPU compute, AI tooling) for roadmap execution, obsolescence management, and order fulfillment.
Establish engineering standards, security practices, and development processes across the unified portfolio.
Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, and field service to support customer satisfaction and installed-base migration.
Provide technical expertise to executive leadership and customers; stay current on machine vision and industrial AI trends.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Skills and Abilities
Strong results orientation with a sense of urgency.
Proven leadership of…