Senior Project Engineer

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

From developing products that run on alternative power to productivity-enhancing precision tech, we are delivering solutions that benefit people – and they are possible thanks to people like you. If the opportunity to build your skills as part of a collaborative, global team excites you, you’re in the right place.

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Be part of this company at the forefront of agriculture and construction, that passionately innovates to drive customer efficiency and success. And we know innovation can’t happen without collaboration. So, everything we do at CNH Industrial is about reaching new heights as one team, always delivering for the good of our customers.

The Senior Project Engineer owns planning and execution for CNH's embedded controls software organization, working with multiple teams of engineers delivering parallel software releases for a single product line. This role sets the standard for how software programs are planned, tracked, and delivered at CNH, while working within the company's agile framework. The Senior Project Engineer acts as a trusted partner to engineering leadership, driving strategic improvements to how the organization plans capacity, manages risk, and reports on progress.

In addition, the role is responsible for hardware logistics and test bench maintenance that keep the engineering organization productive day to day.

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the SAFe or Agile framework used across the team, including sprint planning, PI planning, and ceremony facilitation
• Develop and maintain integrated software release plans, schedules, and milestone tracking across multiple parallel releases within the product line
• Lead gate reviews and milestone sign-offs, ensuring deliverables meet entry and exit criteria before progressing
• Support resource planning with engineering leadership and capacity forecasting across teams, identifying staffing gaps and rebalancing workload as priorities shift
• Track program budgets and report cost performance to engineering leadership on a regular cadence
• Build and maintain Jira dashboards that surface software quality metrics, release health, and KPIs for the team and leadership
• Lead software quality improvement initiatives, applying lean and process improvement methodologies to remove waste and tighten cycle times
• Coordinate cross-functional activities with global engineering centers, suppliers, and other internal groups across multiple time zones
• Manage defect tracking and requirements traceability in Jira and Polarion, ensuring documentation is complete, current, and audit-ready
• Own hardware logistics for the team, including ordering, receiving, inventory management, and allocation of controllers, sensors, and related components
• Maintain test benches in a working state through scheduled upkeep, configuration management, and coordination of repairs or upgrades as needed
• Communicate program status, risks, and mitigation plans to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, up to and including executive audiences

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Software or related Engineering field
• 7 or more years of experience in program management, technical project management, or a similar engineering leadership role supporting embedded software development
• Demonstrated technical fluency in embedded systems concepts, sufficient to engage credibly with software, controls, and hardware engineers
• Proven track record leading large, multi-team programs with parallel release trains
• Hands‑on experience with Jira for defect tracking, sprint management, and dashboard creation
• Experience with Polarion or a comparable requirements management tool
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project or similar planning and scheduling tools
• Working knowledge of process improvement and lean methodologies, with…