Head of Engineering

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

Job Description

Based in Singapore and reporting to the VP/GM of APBC, the Head of Engineering at Rockwell Automation APBC will create a vision for the direction and culture of embedded software/test/ hardware/digital engineering excellence, driving a world class engineering organization.

You will

• Focus on driving efficiency, time to market and quality through robust process improvement, organizational development and innovative platform development.
• Ensure the development team is aligned with the company strategy and drive value into the system offerings at every phase of our customers journey through design, operate and maintain.
• Consult with senior leaders in providing direction to ensure business growth and financial success; predictably deliver high-quality, scalable solutions, assess and recommend how to maximize the value of the engineering organization across multiple time horizons.
• Apply knowledge of embedded solutions and architectures to blueprint and manage the product development roadmap, build enhancements within an existing architecture, implement improvements to the architecture and develop a platform for the future.
• Provide exceptional leadership to senior managers and managers who each manage their own engineering teams and also require you to engage and influence QA, product management, customer support, product design, UI, IT and other Shared Service functions.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed set of peers and their development organization to help your teams achieve greatness.
• Maintain and raise our engineering standards, improving Time to Market, maintaining and improving excellent quality, driving adoption of new technologies and will be in an important position to lead us through rapid evolution. The engineering organization is responsible for the entire life cycle of the products - introduction to retirement/ end of life.

To qualify you will need to be experienced at leading teams of diverse skills of engineers and experience developing/coaching other managers. You'll need to bring excellent technical knowledge and strong leadership, planning, and management abilities.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Minimum of 15 years of development/ R&D engineering experience.
• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or related field.
• Experience in developing, implementing, modifying and utilizing various product development processes waterfall, SAFe, etc.
• 5+ years of experience leading global development teams virtual, remote, hybrid.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience working with different forms of project/ program management
• 2 years of experience managing iterative development methods such as Agile and Scaled Agile
• Location is Singapore. Some travel to other North American and global campuses in (example: India, China, USA) would be required.
• Demonstratable track record in building succession and growing organizational, managerial, and technical leadership.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Knows key hardware methods and models as applied throughout the development and delivery process and has successfully developed and deployed them.
• Has experience in and working knowledge of hardware development.
• Industrial manufacturing experience as a design team, OEM or end user
• Industrial automation experience with controller, drives, IO, HMI, industrial PC's or communication- in particular familiarity and or certification with industrial standards such as ISO 62443 and ISO 61508 or their equivalents.
• Experience working with complicated systems with many interdependencies and legacy support requirements.
• Ability to leverage internal and external innovation to increase customer value and reduce time to market.
• Experience establishing teams to architect platforms that are sustainable and scalable.
• Stays current in the state of the art, technologies and talent.
• Successful in data driven continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated examples of building collaborative relationships through indirect influence.
• Leads and motivates with positivity, particularly in challenging environments.
• A track record of growing talent, both at the Sr Technical levels and at the managerial level
• Long term planner and an agile, creative short-term executor
• Minimum of 15 years' experience in hardware development, preferably in large scale software programs
• Minimum of 7 years in team leadership or management

What We Offer:

Our benefits package includes ...

• Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium membership to Calm
• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees
• Company volunteer and donation matching program - Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Personalized wellbeing programs through our OnTrack program
• On-demand digital course library for professional development

... and other local benefits

At 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. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.