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Trimble Inc. Technical Project Manager in Westminster, Colorado
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 differ nces. 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