Title: Senior Technical Program Director Downstream
Job Location: Santa Clara Ca
Job Term: Fulltime
Travel: < 10
Flexible Vacation Policy
The Opportunity:
Picarro Inc. is looking for a Senior Technical Program Director Downstream to join their Environmental Solutions team. In this role you will guide and document product transitions out of engineering and into operations while maintaining all product technical information. Additionally any nonstandard releases or batch manufacturing needs will be executed under your direct supervision.
The successful candidate will need to be personable have a strong product engineering background and hold exceptional organizational / documentation skills.
Primary Duties
- Develop a thorough understanding of the technical aspects of all products and their subsystems.
- Organize and maintain documentation and specifications for all products and subsystems.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure hardware tests effectively reveal realworld failure modes.
- Work with software teams to compile accurate revision histories and release notes as needed.
- Support the software QA team in testing new software releases on compatible hardware.
General Expectations:
- Be flexible and ready to tackle a variety of technical challenges beyond your specialized niche.
- Provide opinions with regards to design when warranted .
- Provide emergency support (possibly onsite) for field engineers if needed.
- Stay informed about customer and regulatory requirements affecting system design.
- Create presentations for internal or external use when needed.
- Train new employees when necessary.
Our total compensation packages includes base salary bonus eligibility and equity.
Qualifications:
- Approximately 20 years of experience in an industrial role as product oriented engineer / scientist.
- Proficiency in any computeraided design platform preferably Solidworks.
- Ability to interpret and create multiple types of technical documentation and drawings.
- Ability to travel approximately < 10 of the time.
- Strong interpersonal communications skills and ability to thrive in a team setting.
- Ability to stay current on best practices emerging technologies and industry trends by selflearning.
- Bachelors degree in any technical discipline (i.e. basic sciences and or engineering).
Required Experience:
Director