Project Manager (On-Site)

About the role

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.

As a Project Manager, you will perform a crucial role in managing several projects through all phases of the development lifecycle, observing generally accepted engineering principles. You will manage partner communications, project requirements, work breakdown, development engineering, testing and release. Your work directly impacts the strategic goals of Lifecycle Services. You will report to the Team Lead, Project Management and work on-site from our customer facilities in the Greater Nashville area.

Responsibilities

• On-site Project Leadership: Serve as the primary Rockwell Automation point of contact at the customer site, providing day-to-day leadership for deployment, commissioning, issue resolution, and customer coordination activities.
• Daily Site Coordination: Lead daily site meetings, align priorities with the customer project team, track open actions, and ensure follow-up across internal teams, field service, systems engineering, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders.
• Project Planning & Execution: Define and manage project scope and goals, deliverables, site schedule, resource needs, and execution plans to support safe, timely, and successful delivery of on-site project milestones.
• Site Readiness & Deployment Support: Coordinate customer site readiness requirements including access, safety expectations, layout readiness, infrastructure dependencies, training needs, equipment availability, and deployment logistics.
• Issue, Risk & Escalation Management: Identify project risks, blockers, technical issues, and customer concerns; drive containment actions, escalate when required, and maintain clear ownership through resolution.
• Project Reporting: Provide regular customer and internal updates including site progress, milestone status, action registers, risks, issue logs, financial updates, schedule impacts, and key performance indicators.
• Stakeholder & Customer Management: Build strong working relationships with customer operations, engineering, maintenance, safety, and leadership teams while managing expectations and maintaining alignment on project priorities.
• Budget & Resource Management: Support project cost control, resource planning, travel coordination, field support planning, and budget tracking to ensure on-site execution remains aligned with approved scope and financial targets.
• Change Management: Act as the site-level point person for scope changes, schedule impacts, customer requests, technical updates, and commercial implications; document and communicate changes appropriately.
• Problem Solving & Communication: Proactively analyze project challenges, coordinate cross-functional solutions, resolve conflicts, and communicate project objectives, status, and priorities clearly to internal and customer teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned from on-site execution, identify opportunities to improve deployment processes, and support the adoption of best practices across future customer projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Relevant Field
• Legal authorization to work in the US (no visa sponsorship now or in the future)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in an Engineering discipline or Computer Science
• Ability to be on-site at our customers' facilities
• 3+ years of project management experience
• Additional education in business administration, operations, or project management
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or working towards PMP designation
• JIRA Experience
• Experience aggregating data in Excel with pivot tables or LOOKUPs

Benefits

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule (work with your manager to enjoy a schedule flexible with your personal life)

Schedule

This role requires on-site work at customer facilities in the Greater Nashville area. Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy expects employees to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.