Hardware Director

Job Responsibility: Overview: Hexagon's Autonomous Solutions division is looking for a Hardware Director to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing the vision and both functional and technical leadership to a global hardware organization and setting the strategic vision. The current hardware organization incorporates the mechanical, electrical, Radio Frequency, product compliance, hardware architecture and test system disciplines. You will have the opportunity to shape the future and evolve the people, processes, policies, and organization to meet the challenging needs of the business and customers. This role requires someone who You thrives on supporting yourtheir teams to effectively and efficiently deliver and support world class mining products that have high quality, that meet and exceed the customer expectations. YouThey will accomplish this by leveraging yourtheir unique leadership, mentoring and communication skills. Reporting to the Director, Program & Process Management, you will work with talented Engineering and Project Management teams across the Hexagon Mining and Autonomy & Positioning divisions to deliver on complex Programs. Responsibilities: As a Principal Program Manager - Process Improvement, your Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Vice President of Hardware Engineering on key strategies including collaboration opportunities between theHexagon's Mining and Autonomy & Positioning organizations andas well as across other Hexagon divisions.
• Setting the vision and goals of the hardware organization and ensuring the teams understand them and isare focused on meetingachieving them.
• Ensuring your global teams and you are highly collaborative and interacting effectively within the product development, operations and product management teams.
• Direct interaction with the key manufacturing and supply chain leaders to ensure the teams are addressing the right issues, at the right priority, using the right life cycle processes.
• Mentoring your technical staff and evolvinge their skills and experience as needed to ensure the product development projects are executed as per the project parameters, risks are mitigated, and challenges experienced are addressed in a structured and expedient way.
• Direct involvement with all development and pre-development project planning, project reviews and project approvals.
• Supporting your team with key project and resource priority decisions.
• Actively monitoring field quality and establishing correct actions and plans when required.
• Drivinge continuous improvement and consistency of development and risk processes.
• Working directly with other Engineering Directors to establish effective budgeting, planning, strategy alignment and overall engineering processes.
• Mentoring the HW architect and helping to evolve ‘system thinking' within the Mining engineering team.
• Supporting the team with the evolution of the Tucson engineering lab and infrastructure.

Qualifications: Must-Have:

• B.Sc. in Engineering (or equivalent)
• 10+ years' experience in leading and shaping high-technology teams and products with focus on hardware and embedded products
• Clear understanding of effective hardware design processes in both new product development and life cycle support of existing products in the field
• Strong upward and downward written and verbal communication skills
• A creative and strong desire for continuous improvement

Key Success Factors :

• Strong collaboration, facilitation, mentorship and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across a geographically dispersed, multi-disciplinary team

• Analytical problem-solving skills with systems thinking and attention to detail

Nice-to-Have :

• Firmware and embedded computing experience
• Experience with Product compliance and regulated substances knowledge
• Experience in robust product design for mining environments
• Familiar with mining applications and solutions
• Understanding of Agile Engineering principles
• Application of reliability engineering principles, including HALT, FMEA, FTA, MTBF, and RCA

Not sure if you meet all the qualifications for this role? Let us decide! At Hexagon, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you're excited about the opportunities this role could bring, we encourage you to apply. For any questions about the role or our company, please email our team at View email address on ca.edajobs.com and we will be pleased to follow up with you. Please do not send cover letters or resumes to this address. The Company: Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. You'll be joining over 22,000 people in 50 countries on the leading edge of your field. This position is with Hexagon's Mining divsion, which solves usrfacea nd undergraound mine challenges with proven technolgoies for planning, operations and safety. Applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at View email address on ca.edajobs.com.