Software/Firmware 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!

Job Description

Job Description

In Power Control Business campus in Katowice, we are looking for an accomplished Firmware and Software Development Manager to join our team and lead an organization of experienced engineers building industrial drives that are part of the Connected Enterprise while helping us continue to build a world-class engineering organization. You will lead teams in multiple functional areas building the best industrial drives products. These agile engineering teams continue to provide Rockwell Automation’s solutions to solve our customers’ manufacturing challenges and increase their productivity. You’ll help further these teams, which include first-line people leaders, by bringing your passion for people development and technical leadership. You will report to and work directly with the Director/Site Leader and have insight and influence on both local and global operations of Power Control Business.

Your responsibilities

• Provide Strategic management and lead with a vision.
• Lead team(s) to evolve/create product designs and product solutions that are robust, stable, extensible and cost-effective.
• Identify technology gaps and opportunities and determine when to make a case for resourcing (and when not to). May negotiate new boundaries for their area of ownership to achieve a better outcome.
• Handle critical problems, decisions, and escalations and mitigates risks.
• Ensure the right people are in the right job and build succession plans.
• Create leader opportunities. Work with Business and engineering colleagues to define and refine overall business opportunities. Lead independently.
• Develop teams and assist them with goal setting and their execution.
• Manage multiple teams and first-line managers, by providing for their continued development, guidance and performance management.
• Take leadership for an organizational initiative and work with peer managers globally to move areas talent management, continuous integration/ delivery or process change forward. You will also be responsible for project sponsorship.
• Ensure product development activities comply with corporate and business-level processes.
• Help the team think and create a continuous improvement mindset.
• Encourage a positive and inclusive work environment to foster outstanding performance.
• Work with leadership to understand and implement the vision of a performance-driven and collaborative workplace.
• Help your team eliminate unnecessary work by leading design capabilities and process improvement activities, optimizing the delivery of customer value, and reducing time-to-market.
• Create environment that promotes new ideas and effectiveness, fostered by intense collaboration in a hybrid workplace arrangement.

What we are looking for in a candidate

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development, IT or a similar technical discipline
• Legal authorization to work in Poland is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening
• Typically requires minimum 12 years of experience in product development.
• Minimum of 6 years of technical and people leadership experience, including leading managers and individual contributors.
• Excellent track record of developing early career talent into technical and people leaders.
• Deep understanding of software development process, tools and techniques used in mature, complex and reliable solutions
• Practical experience leading development of solutions requiring integration of multiple software and hardware components .
• Experience in building products and solutions for industrial automation, manufacturing systems or similar applications.
• Courage, transparency and effectiveness in communication.
• Experience with Agile / Scrum way, ideally in a Scaled Agile Framework.
• Experience in industrial automation product development or related technical areas, including background with large-scale system development projects.
• Experience working with global team members on multi-campus product development.

Benefits

• Private Medical care,
• Sport Card,
• Group Insurance,
• Lunch Card,
• MyBenefit account,
• Christmas bonuses and Holiday bonuses,
• Other allowances

This role is deigned to be hybrid, as it is equally important to maintain personal presence with the local team in Katowice and multiple remote connections with global PCB leaders in remote locations. We are looking for candidates that can bring diverse set of experience and ideas to our team and we are open for discussion on how to align your personal commitments with role requirements.

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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.