Technical Project Manager

Your Title: Technical Project Manager

Job Location: Westminster, CO

Our Department: Civil Construction Field Solutions

What You Will Do

We are seeking a candidate to fill a full-time technical project manager position in our Westminster, CO Civil Construction Field Solutions division. Learn more about what we do here. This position will focus on managing engineering projects in the productization phase (NPI) and research phase (NTI). Candidates will work with cross-disciplinary engineer teams (HW, SW, FW, ME), product teams, and operations teams to move hardware and software projects through the Trimble process from idea to implementation to first customer shipment. Candidates should be highly process and people-oriented with an ability to influence others to get the job done. An agile mindset of continuous improvement is a must as is a proven track record of working with new teams to quickly move them through Tuckman's 5 stages of group development from forming to performing.

• Facilitate the Trimble internal process, T5, used for New Product Introduction (NPI) projects involving hardware, firmware, mechanical, and/or kitting for hardware and firmware/software projects

• Facilitate the Trimble Learning Cycles process used for new technology introduction (NTI) projects

• Participate in quarterly roadmap planning with product leadership to ensure our roadamps are aligned to our strategy and contain the information required to move to project execution

• Act as SCRUM Master for new Agile development teams acting as a resource to quickly move teams from storming to performing by building trust, commitment, and accountability

• Facilitate project gate review meetings to seek stakeholder approval

• Provide regular project updates in an executive summary format that drives decisions and actions

• Work with teams to develop and maintain schedules, budgets, and resource estimates that drive on-time and on-budget projects

• Develop strong working relationships with key contributions

• Uses influence, persuasion, and teamwork to drive results against clear objectives

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• 8+ years of experience working on engineer teams developing embedded systems using GNSS, IMU's, Lasers, or other technology used in positioning and control

• 5+ years in project management facilitating software/firmware and hardware projects

• Very strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to clearly articulate status, risks, and recommendations to keep projects on time and within budget.

• Mastery of the Google Suite, Aha, and Jira

• Proficient in using scheduling tools such as Smartsheets to manage gantt charts

• A proven record of using influence, persuasion, and teamwork to drive results against clear objectives

• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies including Scrum and Kanban

• Ability to quickly come up to speed on new products, projects, and technology

• Able to maintain and prioritize work effectively within and across multiple projects and priorities

Measures of Success:

• Projects are delivered on time and to budget

• Strong alignment amongst our product team ensuring our projects maximize our engineering investment

• Increase the velocity at which engineering can move projects from ideas to production-ready solutions

• Become the go-to resource for project status, dependencies, and general questions across the portfolio

• Create a culture in which engineers embrace, instead of resit, the process

About Trimble

Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. While GPS is at our core, we have grown beyond this technology to embrace other sophisticated positioning technologies and, in doing so; we are changing the way the world works

Trimble's Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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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.

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