CPI Black Belt Project​/Program Manager

Overview

Your

Title:

CPI Black Belt Project Lead

Job Location:

Dayton, OH or Christchurch, NZ

Our Division:
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

Are you interested in defining and driving world-class quality, ensuring our CTCT customers can reliably operate our industry-leading solutions?

What Makes This Role Great:

As a CPI Black Belt you will play a critical role in our quest to deliver defect-free products to our customers and will primarily focus on leading projects to achieve this goal. The role will focus on working across the organization to deliver thorough root cause corrective action (RCCA) and drive to address the "True Root Cause" of issues related to our products.

• Leading CPI projects to address issues and defects related to design, manufacturing, and supplier quality
• Supporting the team in data analysis to identify and prioritize key issues to ensure we minimize customer downtime
• Close collaboration with the extended team to support product quality, including a focus on analysis of all field defects and implementing robust stop capability to protect our customers
• Provide coaching to the extended organization on effective RCCA and identification of "True Root Cause" to address the broken process that allowed the defect to be created

• Experience in product development, design engineering, product service engineering, or as a field Technical Representative.
• Experience in more than one product development area or product group is desirable.
• Experience program management or project management.
• Excellent communication skills (written, oral, presentation) for a global and diverse audience
• Strong analytical skills and capabilities. Ability to draw insights from data to make quick, well informed decisions.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology Field or equivalent work experience
• 6 Sigma Black Belt training
• Ability to build strong relationships with various stakeholders and strong business acumen
• Distinct customer focus
• Ability to understand both technology and business domains
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

At Trimble, we re not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world s most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

Trimble s Dayton, Ohio office, home to over 400 Trimble employees, is located in the Huber Heights area, and has a long-standing presence in the community. The Dayton team works on a variety of innovative projects, from corporate payroll and logistics to mechanical and firmware engineering, offering a dynamic environment where employees can make a tangible impact on a global scale.

Based at Trimble s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand is also home to over 400 Trimble employees, enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you ll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please Note:

Only applicants legally entitled to work in either New Zealand or the United States, as appropriate, will be considered.

The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance.

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