Job Description

The Project Manager has responsibility for successfully planning, executing, controlling and managing project deliverables with high complexity and risk for a portfolio of projects. The Project Manager acts as liaison between the company and the client through an entire project life-cycle, from order acceptance by Rockwell Automation to client sign-off. To ensure that customer satisfaction, margin targets, and quality standards are achieved, project scope, schedule, and budget details and efforts of team members and third party vendors must be managed. Many cross-functional interaction (e.g., sales, systems engineering, product development, finance, and operations) are required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Functional
  • Knowledge of industrial and commercial control technologies, automation, and information platforms, protocols, and communications technologies with emphasis on Rockwell Automation solutions such as PlantPAx and FactoryTalk.
  • Familiarity with various aspects of systems integration (e.g., PLC, HMI, networking, power distribution)
  • Proficiency with Project Management functions such as customer interface, stakeholder management, project financial management, project schedule maintenance and project manpower planning

• Leadership
  • Commercial project achievement and leadership in a controls engineering and automation related business
  • Skillfully leads, motivates and manages a geographically dispersed engineering and project delivery organization by utilizing collaboration tools a

• Interpersonal
  • Must have commercial savviness with the ability to understand the customer's viewpoint while navigating a path to a mutually successful project for both the customer and Rockwell Automation.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation, and collaborative skills with proven abilities to effectively work in a team setting
  • Primary interface with customer, sales and other Rockwell Automation entities for assigned projects.
  • Demonstrates excellent problem solving and negation skills.
• Business
  • Demonstrates a personal commitment to excellence in every aspect of the business with an uncompromising stance on ethics and transparency, internally and externally
  • Possess a strong understanding and the ability to discuss the financial aspects of project management: forecasting, cost tracking, percentage completion, revenue recognition, and project accounting
  • Responsible for managing subcontracts that include contract labor and/or fixed price deliverables

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or another technical discipline.
  • Able and willing to travel up to 25%, including working at customer industrial sites, which may require climbing, working in confined spaces and other unusual work environments.
  • Rockwell Automation will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. No sponsorship is being offer with this role.
• Desired
  • Minimum five years of experience with direct customer project management including all aspects of scope, schedule, quality, and financial management.
  • Minimum five years of experience in a systems, software, process automation or application engineering capacity.
  • Possess process industry application or technology knowledge in industry segments including Consumer Goods, Life Sciences, Metals, Mining, Chemicals.
  • Willingness to work overtime, weekends and holidays to meet customer project commitments.
  • Success working in a stressful environment with many competing priorities where constructive feedback from others is encouraged and expected.
  • Excellent conflict resolution and people interface skills.
  • Proven success in simultaneously managing multiple customer projects of greater than $1 million.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and formal PMI PM training.
  • Further education in business administration, operations, or project management.

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