Job Title:Technical Project Manager

Job Location:Westminster CO or Christchurch NZ

Department:Field Systems

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

About the Role

We are seeking a candidate to fill a fulltime technical project manager position in our Civil Construction Field Solutions division in our Christchurch New Zealand location. This position will focus on managing engineering projects that are in the productization phase (NPI) and research phase (NTI). Candidates will work with crossdisciplinary 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 peopleoriented with an ability to influence others to get the job done. An agile mindset of continuous improvement is a must.

What You Will Do

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

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

• 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 ontime and onbudget projects

• Develop strong working relationships with key contributions

• Use influence persuasion and teamwork to drive results against clear objectives

What Skills & Experience You Should Have

• 5 years of experience working on engineering teams developing embedded systems using GNSS IMUs Lasers or other technology used in positioning and control

• 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 SmartSheet (or similar Gantt chart) tool and Jira

• 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

• Increase the velocity at which engineering can move projects from ideas to productionready solutions

• Become the goto resource for project status dependencies and general questions across the portfolio

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

Trimble Navigation Limited is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race gender age color religion national origin marital status disability sexual orientation status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws or any other protected factor. EOE/M/F/V/D

Pay Equity

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 applicants sex or other status protected by local state or federal law.

Hiring Range:

Bonus Eligible

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.