Chief Controls Engineer - Connected Vehicles
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.
Chief Engineer – Controls
Lead a large engineering team consisting of Managers, Engineers, Designers, and Technicians across multiple engineering disciplines.
Plan, direct, and coordinate business and product strategy to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Provide coaching and development for leaders including exposure to workforce planning, succession planning, resource allocation, horizon planning, conflict resolution, people first leadership.
Prepare and control department budget(s), forecast operating costs of department, and direct preparation of budget requests.
Has high level P&L responsibility. Understand market share and P&L for their product line - strong business acumen.
Collaborate with functional leaders to achieve strategic initiatives.
Ability to present and defend technical engineering decisions to Engineering leadership, Oshkosh leadership, and external customers.
Develop engineering goals and strategic plans for their platform team or product line.
Identify and provide potential innovative solutions to complex issues.
Act as a key influencer in technical decisions regarding new technology.
Collaborate in establishment of the technical base line and technical engineering vision.
Interface with customers/suppliers to resolve complex technical issues to provide the business with innovative, industry leading solution.
Provide technical mentorship to all levels of the engineering organization.
Act as a technical advisor to Engineering leaders.
Work in collaboration with software engineering and other internal engineering groups or business support disciplines.
Plan and direct the technical aspects of vehicle system controls research, development, verification and validation, testing and production implementation.
Lead or conduct research on new technologies and establish requirements (resources, equipment, estimates, test plans, and milestones) according to the needs of a project.
Manage proposal development with regards to acquiring appropriate funding for various advanced control development efforts.
Implement necessary process controls, methods, and policies for controls engineering.
Assure appropriate levels of industry compliance for vehicle control systems.
Qualifications
Accredited Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related field with ten (10) or more years of related experience.
Standout Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering and 12-plus years related experience or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering and 10-plus years related experience or Ph.D. degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 5 years related experiences.
Automotive or heavy-duty vehicle background with vehicle control system experiences.
Strong expertise and specialized in one or more of the following fields: suspension control, powertrain control, vehicle stability control, material handling equipment control, vehicle dynamics real-time simulation, or advanced hydraulic control etc.
In-depth work experience in automotive or heavy-duty vehicle CAN bus and architecture.
In-depth work experience in Mathworks, dSPACE or Vector tools and Autosar.
Embedded software development experiences using C/C++/C# or Python a plus.
Pay Range
$118,600.00 - $204,000.00