Engineering Excellence Manager

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. 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. We 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!

Description Engineering Excellence Manager Industrial Automation and Control As 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. You 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. You will report to the Director of Engineering Delivery and have a hybrid schedule working in Pune, India.

Under your leadership, the following functions will have the following responsibilities – Technical Competency and Training Lead 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. Establish clear ownership and accountability for domain expertise, ensuring that SMEs maintain deep technical knowledge aligned with current and latest technologies. Provide 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. Be a final escalation point for complex technical challenges and cross-domain engineering decisions that require expert judgement and resolution. Engineering Standards and Trusted Content This 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. Design Assurance and Quality This 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. Engineering Continuous