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.

The Chief Engineer – Controls leads and manages the engineering team, responsible for driving continuous improvement efforts across different engineering disciplines, making critical decisions that have a large impact on projects and engineering initiatives, developing and fostering engineers to think innovatively, hold accountability, and process improvement on a daily basis. The role leads the technical engineering position within a company and is exceeded by a Director or Sr.

Chief Engineer. Works within engineering groups to manage applicable technology exploration and all aspects involving the development and implementation of vehicle control systems. Controls work encompasses advanced control strategy development and verification for engine, hybrid, and electric vehicles, for components (electronic control modules, motors, drives, engines, generators, energy storage cells, sensors, etc.), and for autonomous vehicle systems, suspension systems, material handling systems, data handling systems, and other auxiliary systems for on‑road and off‑road applications.

• 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.
• Conduct the research necessary to be an advocate for new technologies/products that will enable the business.
• 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 baseline and technical engineering vision.
• Help lead the transformation of the organization into modern approaches to development, integration, and test.
• 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.
• Supplies technical inspiration and leadership consultation to other engineers.
• 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.
• Work with or direct internal and external (industry consortiums and universities etc.) project teams on advanced control development efforts and on component development efforts.
• Develop feasibility studies and project estimates (manpower, budget development, and timelines, etc.) for proposed projects.
• Manage proposal…