Project Manager - Engineer to Order

Description

The company makes industrial automation technology and helps manufacturers become more productive, sustainable and agile.

This role manages projects in the motor control center business, covering hardware engineering design, third-party purchased items and post-shipment engineering services.

You report to the NEMA PMO Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering staff who design and deliver complex projects, and the technical team for design, implementation and testing of complex systems.
• Set up and maintain project schedules, including forecasts, and hold regular status meetings.
• Start, plan, run, control and close every project, covering kickoff, budget, schedule, risks, communication and customer satisfaction.
• Track project and business metrics: milestone on-time performance, cycle time between milestones, change order revenue, project margin, shipment forecast, quality, warranty cost and customer experience.
• Manage scope of supply and process every change order, while keeping order margins where they should be.
• Check all designs against applicable codes, customer specifications and design practices, and define and monitor the business and industry standards that apply.
• Review applications, assess risks and build plans to reduce them.
• Track total project costs against scope and change orders, and create and forecast those costs in SAP.
• Confirm and coordinate customer shipping requirements so shipments are released on forecast.
• Work with the post-shipment support group to resolve field complaints as quickly as possible.
• Work with Rockwell divisions and outside parties, including sales, vendors, consultants, contractors, OEMs, subcontractors, subsystem suppliers, finance, commercial engineering, quality, operations scheduling and plant staff.
• Advise on high-level design issues for projects led by others.
• Build your knowledge of motor control centers and related products such as drives, starters and feeders, and of the Oil & Gas, Water/Wastewater, and Food and Beverage industries.
• Help create a workplace where the team works well together.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. The company will not sponsor employment visas for this role, now or in the future.
• Ability to travel, including internationally, for up to 10% of your time.
• Engineering or project management experience with industrial controls is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent is preferred.
• Typically 5+ years of related project management experience is preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or willingness to get certified, is preferred.
• Previous industrial controls experience is preferred.
• Experience with the company (Allen-Bradley) Motor Control Centers is preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma background (yellow belt, green belt or black belt) is preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and knowledge of SAP, Power BI and Power Apps are preferred.

Conditions

Hybrid role: you are expected to work at a Rockwell location on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays unless you have a business obligation elsewhere.

Pay depends on experience, which sets the position level and compensation within this job family.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

Apply even if you do not match every qualification, since you may suit this or another role.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision health insurance.
• 401k.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Flexible work schedule, agreed with your manager, to fit your personal life.