Lead Product Engineer TruLaser Center

TRUMPF • Chicago, IL

22h

About The Position

As a family-run, high-tech company with nearly 19,000 employees at 71 locations worldwide, we are looking for forward thinkers with unconventional ideas and drive to join our team. Our company culture, which values collaboration and mutual trust, creates the ideal framework for boldly trying new things and questioning the status quo. Our technologies inspire people to develop and produce things that are currently unimaginable. Whether lasers, machine tools, EUV or electronics - TRUMPF is building technological worlds for future generations. Are you ready for new challenges? Duties & Responsibilities: Work in a cross-functional and dynamic team with applications, engineering, sales and service departments. Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for Automated Laser Cutting and Sorting, providing proficient engineering and technical support for both internal and external requests, and showcase machine technology to internal and external customers. Lead the product team in a senior role, addressing current challenges with the TruLaser Center in TRUMPF’s automated laser cutting portfolio. Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada markets to continuously increase operational excellence and stability, particularly with integrated cutting and bending systems. Derive product requirements and coordinate specification and prioritization with Product Management and Development Teams in Germany. Lead the local product team to independently create, test and evaluate new ideas that can increase overall efficiency and maximize the impact of our Integrated Cutting & Bending strategy. Consult TruLaser Center Product Management and develop strategies to increase sales, rollout of product enhancements and organize market feedback. Develop use cases and conduct cases studies on material flow from a TruLaser Center to a Bending Cell, using future intralogistics components like Autonomous Guided Vehicles and/or external parts sorting devices. Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills, effectively interacting with individuals in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. Travel requirement up to 20% in North America, including overnight travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.
• 5 years of progressive experience in engineer or related job.
• 1 year in each of the following (may be concurrent with 5 years): (1) product development in mechanical or hardware engineering for machine tools, (2) Involvement in requirements engineering from concept to market launch, (3) Product management and strategy, (4) TRUMPF machine tools including automation systems, (5) Agile project management (e.g. SCRUM, Jira).
• Travel requirement up to 20% in North America, including overnight travel.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-functional and dynamic team with applications, engineering, sales and service departments.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for Automated Laser Cutting and Sorting, providing proficient engineering and technical support for both internal and external requests, and showcase machine technology to internal and external customers.
• Lead the product team in a senior role, addressing current challenges with the TruLaser Center in TRUMPF’s automated laser cutting portfolio.
• Identify opportunities for product innovation and improvements in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada markets to continuously increase operational excellence and stability, particularly with integrated cutting and bending systems.
• Derive product requirements and coordinate specification and prioritization with Product Management and Development Teams in Germany.
• Lead the local product team to independently create, test and evaluate new ideas that can increase overall efficiency and maximize the impact of our Integrated Cutting & Bending strategy.
• Consult TruLaser Center Product Management and develop strategies to increase sales, rollout of product enhancements and organize market feedback.
• Develop use cases and conduct cases studies on material flow from a TruLaser Center to a Bending Cell, using future intralogistics components like Autonomous Guided Vehicles and/or external parts sorting devices.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills, effectively interacting with individuals in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level