The IAD EAE+ CoE Leader is responsible for leading the execution strategies for Projects & Services as well as supporting our Pre-sales & Innovation initiatives, in collaboration w/ globally distributed Open Automation Delivery, Pre-sales & Innovation Support Leads & regional IAD & proposal teams. This requires mandating engineering best practices, building and developing talent, technical capabilities and contributing to customer satisfaction & Quality. This role provides leadership to ensure the delivery of quality solutions to global clients, achieving customer satisfaction and targeted business objectives. Drives the adoption and compliance with global project engineering tools and processes and engages in strategic planning to meet business & open automation team objectives.
What will you do?
Projects/Services and Resource Management:
Contribute to business growth by achieving Open Automation's targets through the delivery of successful, creative, and high-quality projects
Contribute to and support project proposals, including defining execution models, scopes of work, solutions,



pricing estimates, schedules, and resource allocations for business opportunities & projects
Plan, ability to lead when/if required, and support key project & technical discussions (eg: project reviews, design workshops, KOMs, etc.)
Serve as the focal point for managing/addressing escalations related to CoE team challenges
Oversee CoE resource forecasts, allocations, and utilization/recovery plans
Collaborate pro-actively w/ relevant IAD & other SE stakeholders to define competencies/skills required for the Open Automation Engineer of the future & define a plan for how IAD resources can acquire these skills
Quality and Process Improvement:
Ensure proper quality reviews of CoE team deliverables by instituting the needed guidelines/controls in place & ensuring team compliance to those
Drive engineering excellence & consistency
Client and Stakeholder Engagement:
Maintain productive rela

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