Eaton's ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Technical Program Manager. This role may be based at our Franksville, WI; Plymouth, MN; or Waukesha, WI locations. Relocation assistance offered to those currently residing in the U.S. A hybrid schedule (3 days in office/2 days remote) is offered.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $122000 - $179000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you'll do:
The Technical Program Manager will be a key member of the Power System Divisions Controls and Relays Group. The position will lead the new product development of software, embedded software, and electronic control projects by effectively leveraging industry standard best practices and software development playbook. We are looking for motivated professionals with strong skills in technical leadership along with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Lead activities related to new product development including planning, estimating, designing, peer review, integration, and release by leveraging software development best practices.
- Partner with the product owners and development team to ensure that all requirements and specification of embedded software subsystems are defined
- Collaborate to strategically investigate, leverage, and deploy industry standard techniques to help stage new product development and improve quality/efficiency/collaboration.
- Lead, develop and manage scope and project schedules.
- Participate in system interface design activities and help conduct design reviews with all stakeholders.
- Communicate plans, estimates, risks, and status on product development to leadership team.
- Collaborate with external and internal customers throughout the product development life cycle.
- Coordinate activities with other functional areas, production, and Eaton's COEs.
- Engage with other embedded software teams throughout Eaton to promote reuse and knowledge sharing
- Investigate areas of gaps in project execution process and contribute to continuous improvements and road-mapping activities.
- Facilitate productivity by removing impediments teams will encounter, mediating through conflicts, helping team to make decisions, and adhering to continuous improvement principles.
- Facilitate and monitor the Scrum process from initiation through delivery.
- Coordinates and encourages participation from all team members in scrum ceremonies
Qualifications:Basic Qualifications
-Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
-Minimum of five (5) years experience in embedded systems or embedded software development.
Preferred Qualifications
-Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent
-Experience leading technical resources in large cross-functional / cross-geographic projects to execute new product development
-Knowledge of new product development and design with multi core embedded systems and real-time operating system (RTOS) concepts.
-Knowledge of scrum processes and ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retro)
-Demonstrated competencies in staging new product development that meet or exceed product requirements with appropriate technical tradeoffs for constrained resources
-Experience using SDLC (software development life cycle) management tools in a team environment (e.g., Jira, Git, etc.)
-Knowledge of power systems, switchgear and regulator controls products/applications is an added advantage.
-Knowledge of designing real-time control systems that use network protocols such as Serial, TCP/IP, Ethernet.
Skills:-Effectively work in an Agile Scrum (or other iterative development) environment.
-Basic understanding of cybersecurity.
-Good communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written
-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
-Self-starter with the ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision
-Up to 20% travel
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