
Senior Manager Hardware Engineering
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Rockwell Automation seeks a senior hardware engineering leader to guide managers and multidisciplinary teams developing PLC, I/O, and communication products. The role spans product delivery and longer-term improvements to technology platforms, development practices, and organizational capability. Reporting to the VP of Hardware Engineering, the leader will influence technology choices, product investments, engineering practices, and talent strategy across a global development organization.
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JOB REQUIREMENTS: Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States 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 thework 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 DescriptionPosition Summary: Rockwell Automation is seeking a senior hardware engineering leader to help shape the next generation of industrial control platforms and the organization that delivers them. You will lead managers and multidisciplinary teams responsible for PLC, I/O, and communication products while influencing technology choices, product investments, engineering practices, and talent strategy across a global development organization. This is not solely a program-execution role. You will balance near-term product delivery with longer-term improvements to our technology platforms, development system, and organizational capability. The role is intended for a leader who wants meaningful operating scope and the opportunity to grow into broader engineering responsibility. You will have meaningful autonomy to experiment and drive enterprise-level change in this role. This role is designed for a curious leader who builds fast-cycle experiments to test ideas, learn from evidence with their team, and scale what works. This is a high visibility role that will challenge you to work across multiple investments and time horizons to solve problems and deliver product. As such, this role will report to the VP of Hardware Engineering who will serve as an active coach, mentor, and advocate for you and your career. Your Responsibilities: Build organizational depth: Lead and develop 3-4 managers or team leads and their hardware engineering teams, strengthening performance, succession, technical capability, and accountability. Grow talent to take on the next set of complex problems we have yet to encounter. Deliver complex products: Own hardware execution from requirements and architecture through validation, certification, industrialization, and release through your management team. Connect pieces across different investments and drive simplicity and reduce... For full info follow application link. Rockwell Automation is an Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Veteran. If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or reasonable accommodation during the application process, email our Talent Acquisition representative at [email protected]. ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/49011BCC40C4462F
How this job compares
Set against the 550 open Engineering Leader jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$154–275K/yr402 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Engineering Leader jobs in Wisconsin and 550 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Engineering Leader postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 7 to 10 years (493 postings).
- Education
- 179 of the 550 open Engineering Leader jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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