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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