Component Validation Manager

Trimble Inc•Dayton, OH

33d

About The Position

Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) is a joint venture between Caterpillar, Inc. and Trimble, Inc., focused on technology used for global positioning and machine guidance in the construction and mining industries. The joint venture brings together leaders in their respective industries into an exciting and dynamic collaboration. The Verification Manager will be part of CTCT's Electronic Hardware development team, specifically accountable for the verification of electronic components for which CTCT has design control. These products include inertial, angle, and displacement sensors, GPS antennas & receivers, displays, compute platforms, and any other component required for a complete Grade Control Product. This position will focus on laboratory, bench, HIL (hardware in the loop) and controlled environment verification and validation. This includes the direct management of validation leads, test engineers and the day to day operation of CTCT's engineering lab & equipment. The Verification Manager will also play a key role in generating and mentoring others to create comprehensive component, system, machine, and field testing verification and validation plans for components. For this, collaboration with global machine and customer facing teams within CTCT is required. The Verification Manager will be accountable for verification strategy, planning, execution, reporting, and continuous improvement in the component verification space. This position enables CTCT's product development teams to deliver robust, high quality hardware solutions optimized for performance, cost, and reliability. This is an exciting role that spans many engineering disciplines across all phases of a product's lifecycle. There will be elements of electrical, mechanical, systems, firmware, manufacturing, machine testing, and any other discipline that is required to verify and validate our innovative products.

Requirements

Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Working knowledge of testing venue capabilities and limitations. Reconcile short-term and long-term needs as it relates to verification and validation assets and resources.
Expert in providing technical recommendations from verification and validation findings.

Responsibilities

Direct people manager so you will be accountable for managing staffing, development, performance, and motivating the engineering team you lead.
Manage Validation Leads working across CTCT's electronic component products. This will include coaching and guidance on comprehensive and collaborative test plan development, execution, reporting, and learning.
Accountable for interactions between the component verification and system level validation teams. Provide oversight to ensure Component Verification Leads are collaborating with System Validation leads to plan and execute end-to-end verification and validation plans.
Manage Test Engineering, executing component level lab and bench testing. This will include accountability for personnel safety, equipment management, lab scheduling, process documentation, test execution against plan, and test result documentation.
Providing specialized engineering technical support as it relates to component verification and consulting services to various areas of the organization.
The product scope of this role will include new technology, new products, and product improvement activities.
Plan and coordinate verification activities that includes CTCT in-house lab facilities and machine test sites as well as outsourcing specialized tests when necessary.
Collaborate with engineering to design and build test setups required for verification testing. This can be in-house or outsourced.
Ensure that the execution of verification activities is done properly, evaluated against established acceptance criteria/standards, and are documented appropriately.

Benefits

Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

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