Project Manager at Rockwell Automation

Principal duties and responsibilities:

Overview

• Extensive experience with direct customer contact.
• Able to work and co-ordinate in a team environment
• Typically possesses application or technology knowledge relevant to assigned business or geography.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment where constructive feedback from others is encouraged.
• Must have excellent conflict / negotiation resolution skills.
• Must be available and willing to work overtime, weekends and holidays to meet customer project commitments.
• Must perform duties in the office or outside the office as part of a project team.
• Must be able and willing to travel and work at customer sites, including industrial plants, ships, etc., which may require climbing, working in confined spaces and other unusual work environments.
• Responsible for the preparation and presentation of quotes, sales proposals, and contracts to the customer in compliance with company policies and standards, obtaining the appropriated approvals
• Consult with other functions on issues like pricing, product specification, warranties and product adaptation to ensure that we provide the appropriate business and technical solution to the customer needs

Functional

• May participate in development of business team strategic plan.
• Performs all aspects of project management functions.
• Manages execution of assigned projects within margin targets.
• Manages and reports all resource demand and financial aspects of assigned projects. 
• May apply complex and advanced project management and scheduling techniques.

Leadership

• Leads efforts of project personnel on complex projects.
• Coaches and mentors less-experienced engineers assigned to projects.
• Leads project teams typically employing up to 30 engineering professionals and coordinates activities with support teams and other capabilities.
• May lead internal project process improvement efforts.

Interpersonal

• Responsible for resource scheduling to meet project plan requirements.
• Negotiates and prepares change orders with customers.
• Serves as the primary interface with customer for assigned projects.
• Supports an environment conducive to successful team interaction.
• Must have excellent negotiation skills.

Business

• Acts as Rockwell Automation representative for assigned projects.
• Complete responsibility for successful outcome of projects.  Manages single projects up to 1 M€ and a multiple project portfolio of up to 20 projects.
• May manage subcontracts that include labour and/or fixed price deliverables.
• Responsible for meeting project schedule, margin, and customer satisfaction targets.
• Builds partnerships at the business management level of key customers.
• Often leads efforts to prepare commercial strategy for complex system applications.
• Responsible for following all applicable corporate, company, governmental and regulatory policies and procedures as appropriate for this position.
• Deliver projects to the quality standards and constraints dictated by the business and the customer’s industry
• Ensure that all project administration is completed and project files are maintained
• Work with the internal Proposal  team to generate priced proposals for existing and future customers
• Primary P&L responsibility for managed projects
• Full stake holder management of all projects

Requirements:

• BSc Engineering/ Relevant degree qualification
• Project management qualification (e.g. PMP) favourable
• Further education in business administration or operations, an advantage
• Excellent English language (verbal and written)
• Industry application knowledge is a pre-requisite
• Conversant with MS Project and all MS software products Excel, Access, Word, etc
• Typically, 3-5 years’ experience in a systems, software, process automation, proposal or application engineering capacity
• Contract management experience an advantage (e.g. NEC/FIDIC)