Director of Global Engineering
Emerson · Chengdu
If you are an Engineering Leader looking for an opportunity to grow your career, this role offers the chance to lead and shape global engineering strategy for Emerson’s Isolation Valves portfolio, including Ball Valve, Butterfly Valve, and Knife Gate Valve solutions. As the Engineering Director, you will combine your technical leadership with a strong people-first focus, driving engineering excellence, scalable processes, and commercial execution while also developing and empowering a globally diverse engineering organization.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Lead a globally distributed engineering organization supporting order and engineered-to-order execution, product development, research, and product lifecycle management across the Isolation Valves portfolio.
- Provide strategic leadership to align global engineering priorities with business objectives and customer needs, partnering closely with World Area leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Develop, coach, and retain engineering talent by fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture that values collaboration, continuous learning, and accountability.
- Optimize engineering resources and budgets to focus on the highest-value activities, balancing near-term execution with long-term capability building.
- Establish clear performance visibility through meaningful metrics, dashboards, and capacity planning tools to guide decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Drive global standardization of engineering tools, processes, and systems to improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability across regions and product lines.
Who You Are
You think globally and excel at viewing issues on a worldwide basis, readily distinguishing between what is relevant and what is less critical to make sense of complex situations. You build effective teams by leveraging the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and strengths of others to achieve shared goals. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, using insight and data to prioritize work and drive outcomes in a matrixed environment. You continually seek better ways of working, identifying opportunities to improve processes through thoughtful refinement or meaningful change.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
- Minimum 10 years of experience in engineering.
- Proven experience and demonstrated success leading global or geographically dispersed teams, with the ability to work across cultures and time zones.
- Strong track record of delivering results in a highly matrixed organization, navigating competing priorities and multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to assess complex processes quickly, identify gaps, and drive solutions.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- Experience or knowledge of working in the Industrial Valves industry.
- Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
Our Culture & Commitment To You
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave.
Learn more about our Culture & Values.
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
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If you are a product management leader looking for an opportunity to grow your career, this role offers the chance to lead a globally impactful portfolio while shaping the future of industrial valve solutions. In this role, you will provide strategic leadership for the Isolation Valves’ Ball Valve, Butterfly Valve, and Knife Gate Valve portfolios, owning the full product lifecycle from vision and roadmap development through end‑of‑life decisions. You will lead a geographically distributed product management team, translate global market insights into actionable strategies, and partner cross‑functionally to deliver customer value, profitable growth, and long‑term portfolio competitiveness—while modeling Emerson’s commitment to innovation, integrity, collaboration, and inclusion.