Engineering Manager
Job Description:
Goals:
- Improve robot’s durability, safety, speed, cost, and usability
- Complete projects on time, on budget, at specified level of quality
- Maximize business value through engineering IP, knowledge, process creation
Role:
- Manage autonomous robot, cross-functional product team that’s setting records in Ag
- Work with mgmt. to build engineering plans/reqs/budgets to support business goals/reqs
- Switch quickly between people, project and technical management
- Hire, train, evaluate, coach, fire in order to hit goals (team size growing from 5 to ~15+)
- Optimize progress with short iterations (weeks) that prioritize MVPs and data over ideas
- Prioritize problems, help team solve, getting “dirty” (hands-on) when needed
- Manage engineering process, docs and knowledge system
Potential Project Examples:
- Revamped sampler machine design
- High performance obstacle detection system
- Robot can perceive and follow crop rows
- New app for easier operator control of robot and enabling offline data sync mgmt.
Desired Profile
Minimum:
- Great communicator, problem definer and solver, core values fit
- Breakdown problems with physics, trig, calculus & algebra
- Test design & execution, data analysis & presentation
- Computer literacy (ppt, excel, docs, proj mgmt tools, reporting)
Core Skills:
- Driven to achieve massive results in high pressure timelines
- Clear Plan Creation: Engineering Req’s, Budgets, Test Specs / Quality Stds
- Excellent leadership: clear desired results, accountability & growth-coaching
- Project Management: define goals, measure real progress, hit targets
- Process Oriented: crank engineering machine faster and more efficiently
- Speak different “technical languages” - mechanical, electrical, software
Core Experience:
- Top 10% Individual contributor as technical engineer (3+ yrs)
- Successfully leading cross-functional/cross-system eng. team (3+ yrs)
- Electro-mechanical (hard/soft) systems (3+ yrs)
- Building & executing engineerings plans on target (req’s & budgets)
- Managing engineering documentation & knowledge
- Applications: vehicle or machine or robot products, rugged products
Bonus:
- Principles: Six Sigma, Lean Engineering, Lean Process & Product Dev, Lean Startup
- Skills: Vehicular Design, Manufacturing Experience, Physics Simulation/FEA
Start Date & Location
- Start in May-June 2020; Willing to work in Wolcott, IN / Lafayette, Indiana area
Compensation / Benefits
- Full-Time Salary (based on market, experience, & skill)
- PTO - Flexible Vacation Plan (Self-managed as long as you get your work done)
Why apply?
- Work with exciting Ag-technology for a purpose.
- Work with an amazing, quickly growing team.
- Challenge yourself to grow in many different areas.
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