About JLG, an Oshkosh company

JLG began in 1969, when our founder, John L. Grove set out to resolve growing safety concerns in the construction industry. Since then we have been committed to understanding the challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the access market. We partner with customers to provide quality equipment, training opportunities and trusted support within the access industry. We are a global company, and our products—including mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers, utility vehicles and accessories—can be found all over the world.

The Sr Project Engineer - Systems leads and manages the engineering team. Responsible for driving continuous improvement efforts across different engineering disciplines. Responsible for making critical decisions that have a large impact on projects and engineering initiatives. Develops and fosters Engineers to think innovatively, hold accountability, and process improvement on a daily basis. The Sr Project Engineer will participate in engineering activities to ensure successful product development, timely execution of programs, and total customer satisfaction. As a Sr Project Engineer, you will work multiple engineering disciplines and product development teams ensuring the logical creation and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions with a focus on future technology and integrated systems. Areas include: electro-hydraulic control systems, hybrid and electric vehicles, autonomous vehicle systems, advanced suspension systems, connected vehicle systems, material handling systems and other auxiliary systems and technology for on-road and off-road vehicle applications. You will establish system architecture, perform system trades and analysis, flow down the architecture concept of operations (CONOPS) into requirements and interfaces, and support verification and validation planning and execution.

YOUR IMPACT:  

Manage an engineering team consisting of Engineers, Designers, and Technicians.

Plans, directs, and coordinates activities of their engineering team.

Team of direct reports may include people leaders.

Provide coaching and development for their team through regular performance feedback, technical and professional training opportunities and creation of individual development plans for team members.

Prepare and control department budget, forecast operating costs of department, and direct preparation of budget requests.

Has some level of P&L responsibility.

Understands market share and P&L for their product line - business acumen.

Collaborate and build relationships with internal and external customers, across segments and functions.

Ability to present and defend technical engineering decisions to Engineering leadership, Oshkosh leadership, and external customers.

Draft, review, and release requirements specification documents, including defining the requirements and verification baseline.

Support requirements, design, and verification team projects and coordinate regularly with key partners to maintain program objectives.

Lead the creation of user need requirements and decomposition of those requirements to system and subsystem requirements.

Collaborate cross functional with multiple disciplines to identify new, obsolete or adjusted regulatory standards (e.g. FDA or IEC).

Review and approve system and subsystem requirement documents to ensure user needs are properly decomposed and intent of the user needs is met.

Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions.

Establish system architecture and CONOPS, perform system trades and analysis, flow down the architecture and CONOPS into requirements and interfaces, and support verification planning.

Use communication skills to work across the organization and customer/user community to ensure consensus and understanding of requirements and solutions.

Analyze preliminary engineering-design concepts to recommend design or test methods for attaining customer-specified operational reliability, using knowledge of reliability engineering and other technologies.

Responsible for completion of a project or part of a project of moderate complexity on time.

May be responsible for overall project schedule and budget.

May be responsible for managing multiple priorities.

Understand and champion the Product Development Process, Life Cycle Management, Reliability, and Design for Manufacturing and product requirements.

Membership and/or certification in a professional organization (e.g. INCOSE).

Demonstrated engineering knowledge and experience in relevant electromechanical disciplines and design.

Experience in Product Design, and familiar in full life-cycle product development methods/activities.

Understanding and application of the standards related to Risk Management, Reliability and Functional Safety.

Creates typical failure analysis deliverables (Hazards Analysis, FMEAs, FTAs, etc.).

Perform and review system level architecture trade studies and analyses that will influence the overall system design and performance.

Develop vehicle and system level requirements for advanced vehicle system controls supporting research, regulatory compliance, reliability, development, failure mode analysis, verification, validation, testing and production implementation.

Create or improve plans and procedures, generate and present briefings, and provide leadership in select areas.

Contribute to the development of new technologies and establish system and sub-system requirements according to the needs of a project.

Work in a team environment with internal and external project teams on advanced control development efforts from the project concept through production.

Author requirements documentation in DOORS, MagicDraw, Cradle, or similar tool for requirements management, decomposition and publication and coordinating release through approval/review process.

Establish and manage requirements traceability and compliance.

Prepare system engineering program and design review process (SRR, PDR, CDR, FRR, etc.).

Build consensus.

Manage change.

Convey progress to Senior Management.

Work with Risk management specialist to identify risks and help define characterization, verification, and test to mitigate risk.

Create and assist in generation of validation test cases and execution of plans to generate reports to verify user needs have been met.

Performs complex engineering calculations, investigations, and tasks as assigned according to Oshkosh as well as general industry engineering standards and processes.

Other duties as assigned.

Regular attendance is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:  

Accredited Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field with eight (8) or more years of related experience.

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS: 

Accredited Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, software or comparable.

Proficient knowledge of tools such as Vector CANalyzer, CANoe, PEAK PCAN, Kvaser CANKing or similar to diagnose and troubleshoot.

Experience with larger OEM process and procedures.

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Pay Range:

The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at corporatetalentacquisition@oshkoshcorp.com.

Oshkosh Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. This company will provide equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Information collected regarding categories as provided by law will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation's legal duty to furnish information.

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