Company 100 - Dayton, OH
posted 2 months ago
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) is a joint venture between Caterpillar and Trimble, dedicated to transforming the way heavy equipment customers shape the world through innovative solutions. The Global Product Validation Engineer (GPVE) will be an integral part of the Hardware Solutions (HWS) Team, focusing specifically on Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) and Angle Sensors. The HWS team is responsible for delivering robust and high-quality hardware solutions that are optimized for performance, cost, and availability, thereby ensuring the success of both Caterpillar and Trimble in the grade control market. The products developed by HWS include components such as brackets, option keys, fasteners, cables, cases, packaging, and labeling. In this role, the GPVE will be responsible for planning, executing, and directing verification and validation (V&V) activities related to IMUs and Angle Sensors across the organization. The primary goal is to ensure that CTCT's grade control platform products meet quality expectations by promoting validation earlier in the product development cycle. This will be achieved by leveraging the team's application and validation knowledge, utilizing world-class evaluation methods, and adhering to best practices. The GPVE will identify and quantify technical and program risks, ensuring that product validation test plans are thorough, well-documented, and executed efficiently. The successful candidate will be dedicated to specific product teams and will report through the validation organization, employing an end-to-end product validation methodology. The GPVE will fully understand the functionality and application of platform products, using this knowledge to ensure effective V&V methods. They will maintain their expertise through training and hands-on V&V tasks, including environmental and performance testing. The GPVE will facilitate the determination of product sample sizes for testing and evaluation, ensuring that design margins are considered in testing. They will be accountable for collaboratively creating product V&V strategies and test plans with product teams, ensuring that test activities are completed and acceptance criteria are met. Additionally, the GPVE will educate product teams on validation expectations and processes, drive the use of tools such as the Risk Based Thinking Process, and develop tools and processes for delivering test documentation effectively. Participation in the product risk assessment process is crucial, as is the ability to communicate validation needs and lead efforts to develop new procedures when necessary. The GPVE will also provide input on planning and execution plans to project managers and work with various areas on scheduling, maintaining and updating test documentation throughout the product lifecycle, and fostering effective training and relationships with other validation engineers.