Director – Project Delivery Engineering

Process Automation, part of Schneider Electric, is a global technology leader in process automation and software solutions offering safety critical and distributed control systems, measurement & instrumentation products, visualization, predictive and analytical software solutions, and simulation services.

Purpose of the Job:-

• Responsible for the management of an Engineering Excellence Center (one or more locations).
• Ensures that the EEC operations of the office meet all business (financial, engineering, commercial, EHSS, quality, commercial support, HR etc) objectives.
• Collaborate and drive Schneider Electric performance growth as part of the management team.

Principal Accountabilities:-

• Is responsible for meeting the targets set by the EEC business plan.
• Manage and lead the Projects and Engineering operation to maximize business performance in terms of revenue and profit margins whilst ensuring continued customer satisfaction.
• Overall responsibility for hiring, discharges, performance management, promotions and salary actions, for personnel within the operation.
• Contribute as a member of the management team (locally, regionally and globally) to determine the company’s overall business strategy and gain commitment to this strategy and ensure delivery from the operations group.
• Manage, Lead and motivate staff to achieve excellence within their roles and profession, ensuring identification and fast tracking of high potential employees.
• Establishes measurable objectives with assigned personnel and regularly monitors performance.  Administrative responsibility for all engineers, including performance reviews, coaching, training and all other aspects of Schneider Electric Standard Policy.
• Direct, plan and prioritize the use of the group’s resources to achieve the optimum utilization and profitability whilst continually assessing group performance to identify and implement improvement actions in concert with other operations.
• Provides regular feedback on service activities and project progress and on performance of personnel involved in projects. Evaluate customer acceptance of Company efforts and identify organization deficiencies and/or potential problem areas.
• Co-ordinates development efforts on project commitments when required.
• Ensure success of the whole of business by providing support and collaboration with other operations and functions for the overall benefit of the company. This especially includes supporting and working closely with Sales, Solutions and other associated functions.
• Works with Sales and Marketing and counterparts in Customer Engineering to effectively develop and use automation, industry application packages, reusable engineering content from previous projects, and in general, put in place highly productive, profitable engineering capability to serve our customers.
• Identifies areas for improvement in the implementation and control of project change orders and recommend guidelines and procedures to management for improved performance.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant policies, procedures and regulations
• Implements effective control on in-process sales order projects, including planning, scheduling, budgeting, staffing and reporting to meet the established delivery and profit objectives for the project. Through personal leadership and coordination of the efforts of the project team members, develop and encourage a positive customer satisfaction attitude.  Coordinates efforts of sub-contractors when required
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with clients sharing intelligence with other relevant parts of the business
• Ensures that customer satisfaction in the services provided is continuously improved
• Implement and adhere to the Quality Performance and HSE parameters and local polices and ensures Company policies are followed
• Ensures active contribution of the operations team into the CQAs and proposals prepared by the regional proposal teams.
• Produces timely forecasts for the operation’s financial performance in terms of revenue, costs, risks and upside as required and discusses and agrees same with the Global EEC LT team
• Continuously develops business, both within the core competences of EEC (ICSS execution) and in the wider SE portfolio.
• Understands and embraces new technologies and trends in the Control and Automation Industry.
• Motivated to develop new business in novel areas and enhanced capabilities.
• Clearly understands and leads towards increased digitalization and digital services.
• Stays aware of emerging standards and regulations.
• Ensures that all processes and systems are implemented and adhered to in running the operations
• Join engineering workshops to identify better project execution approaches.
• Lead specific EEC programs to continuously improve operations
• Perform any other reasonable tasks in accordance with instructions as maybe requested by management.

Qualifications:-
Essential / Desirable Competencies:-
Essential Competencies:-

• Degree in Engineering/Science/Business or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in the supply of engineering in a complex software solutions environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in managing a large multi-management level organization
• Minimum 15 years in the process control industry with at least 5 years proven experience in project/department management position.
• Formal Project Management/commercial/business training.
• Previous proven experience in Operations Management or equivalent role.
• Ease and fluency at company leadership team communications
• Fluent English

Desirable Competencies:-

• Analysis Issues
• Lead Courageously
• Foster Open Communication
• Coach and Develop Others
• Foster Teamwork
• Manage Execution
• Know the Business
• Act with Integrity
• Display Adaptability
• Demonstrate Interest in Others
• Position requires an experienced and capable individual who is self-motivated, articulate, and decisive with strong management/leadership skills.
• Must be team and task oriented but capable of logical and original thought with the ability to react coolly under stress, plus be prepared to travel widely and work unsociable hours if necessary.

Location:-

• Chennai, India.

Company Overview:-

Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.

We believe access to energy and digital is a basic human right. Our generation is facing a tectonic shift in energy transition and industrial revolution catalysed by accelerated digitisation in a more electric world. Electricity is the most efficient and best vector for decarbonisation; combined with a circular economy approach, we will achieve a climate-positive impact as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.