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With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.\nWe welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!\nJob Description\nDescription\nEngineering Excellence Manager\nIndustrial Automation and Control\nAs Engineering Excellence Manager, you will raise the quality, consistency and repeatability of the industrial automation and control solutions we engineer for our customers. You will lead the engineering standards, design practices, trusted content and quality gates that our project teams work to, and you will hold the organisation accountable for applying them across process, discrete and hybrid engagements. Your remit covers engineering governance, design assurance, continuous improvement and technical competency development, so that every project starts from content rather than a blank page.\nYou will have the Engineering Standards and Trusted Content, Design Assurance and Quality, Engineering Continuous Improvement, and Technical Competency and Training functions reporting to you. You will build a engineering chain, assuring the development of technical resources, and preparing the structure to support new delivery strategies as our automation and digital transformation portfolio grows. You will be responsible for resource development, with Engineering Domain Expertise Management.\nYou will report to the Director of Engineering Delivery and have a hybrid schedule working in Pune, India.\nYour Responsibilities:\nUnder your leadership, the following functions will have the following responsibilities -\nTechnical Competency and Training\nLead a team of Technical Leads and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across automation domains, providing direction, coaching, performance development, and succession planning to provide a strong and sustainable technical organisation.\nEstablish clear ownership and accountability for domain expertise, ensuring that SMEs maintain deep technical knowledge aligned with current and latest technologies.\nProvide leadership and oversight to the Technical Lead and SME community, ensuring technical decision-making, knowledge sharing, and understanding of engineering practices across projects, industries, and regions.\nBe a final escalation point for complex technical challenges and cross-domain engineering decisions that require expert judgement and resolution.\nEngineering Standards and Trusted Content\nThis department will be responsible for governing the usage of Trusted Content and standard templates in project execution, and will be the focal point for resolving all critical engineering problems. It will define, publish and version-control the engineering standards, design templates and reusable control libraries built on Logix controllers, FactoryTalk software and Rockwell Automation reference architectures, so that engineers across the region design from the same proven baseline.\nDesign Assurance and Quality\nThis department will maintain engineering quality control by using our Global Quality Management System in the design and delivery of our projects and services. It will operate design reviews and quality gates across the full lifecycle, from functional design specification through factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing and handover, and will confirm that deliverables meet the applicable functional safety, cybersecurity and industry standards including IEC 61511, IEC 62443, ISA-88 and ISA-95.\nEngineering Continuous Improvement\nThis department will help use Lean, Six Sigma, Agile and other quality methodologies within the engineering community. It will ensure that productivity projects are identified and executed through the year for measurable results, reducing engineering effort per deliverable without conceding quality. It will also introduce tooling that raises productivity, including configuration-driven code generation, automated testing, emulation and disciplined version control, and will own the lessons-learned process so that an issue surfaced on one project becomes standard practice on the next.\nTechnical Competency and Training\nThis function is responsible for managing the competency needs of the engineering organisation and for the programmes that feed it. It will maintain a competency framework covering process, discrete, hybrid, safety and information solutions disciplines with clear proficiency levels, run technical training, certification and mentoring from graduate trainee through to technical lead, and work with engineering managers to close skill gaps against the forward order book.\nTechnical Authority and Customer Engagement\nYou will act as the senior technical authority for PLC, HMI, SCADA, drives, motion and safety applications, reviewing complex or high-risk designs covering network topology, controller sizing, redundancy strategy, functional safety and industrial cybersecurity before they reach the customer. You will guide the adoption of Rockwell Automation platforms in delivery engagements, including Studio 5000, FactoryTalk View, FactoryTalk Optix, PlantPAx and Emulate3D, support proposal engineering with technical solution reviews and estimating norms, and represent engineering quality in customer design reviews, audits and escalations.\nAll the above roles will work with the relevant global teams to make this happen.\nThe Essentials - You Will Have:\nYou will have a bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation, Control Systems or Mechatronics Engineering.\nYou will have 15 or more years in industrial automation engineering, including experience leading engineering teams, technical governance or an engineering excellence function.\nYou will be Six Sigma certified.\nYou will understand process and discrete automation and the relevant control systems, with hands-on design and commissioning background across PLC, HMI, SCADA and drive systems.\nYou will have overseen engineering standards, design reviews or quality systems in a project delivery environment.\nYou will display, communication, partner management.\nYou will have experience building technical teams while promoting a culture of collaboration, innovation, and learning.\nExpertise in managing diverse technical expert teams across multiple industries, technologies, and geographical regions.\nWhat You Will Be Measured On:\nProvide a quarterly engineering excellence update to leadership.\nFulfilment of important talent development plans across the engineering population.\nManage turnover of necessary technical talent no higher than the turnover of the location.\nLead engineering quality management and reduce rework hours and defects found at site acceptance testing.\nConduct the monthly engineering governance meetings, including the design review board, the trusted content and standards review, and engineering quality reporting.\nGrow the reuse of control modules and templates across industry segments and report adoption.\nSupport employee engagement, retention, and career development outcomes within the Technical Lead and SME organisation.\nMaintain a pipeline of technical talent through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career progression of Technical Leads and SMEs.\nImprove technical competency maturity across the organisation through measurable growth in certifications, domain expertise, and technical capability development.\nWhat We Offer:\nOur benefits package includes …\nComprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm\nVolunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees\nCompany volunteer and donation matching programme - Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.\nEmployee Assistance Program\nPersonalised wellbeing programs through our OnTrack programme\nOn-demand digital course library for professional development\n... and other local benefits!\nAt Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. 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