Product Engineer

Your Title: Product Engineer

Your Location: Sunnyvale, CA, Dayton, OH, or Westminster, CO

Our Division: Trimble Operations Product Engineering

Building the Future of Precision: Impactful Product Engineer Opportunity at Trimble

Are you ready to bridge the gap between visionary design and world-class manufacturing? Join Trimble’s Operations Product Engineering team to lead the evolution of high-tech solutions that connect the physical and digital worlds, ensuring excellence from the first prototype to the final global delivery.

What Makes This Role Great:

Embark on an exciting journey as a Product Engineer, driving the evolution, efficiency, and quality of manufacturing processes. Collaborate with design engineering to introduce new products and engage with suppliers to ensure top-tier selections. Nurture partnerships with the quality team to establish superior methodologies. Gauge manufacturing costs, set time standards, and guide tooling and process enhancements for both new and existing product lines. 

You will act as the vital link between design and reality, driving the evolution and quality of cutting-edge manufacturing processes. This role offers the unique opportunity to nurture global partnerships with quality and design teams, guide tooling enhancements, and take true ownership of new product introductions that impact critical industries worldwide.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Ensure production meets customer requirements, quality standards and budget constraints. 

• Analyze manufacturing and test defect data and trends to define root cause and implement corrective actions

• First point of contact and direct corrective actions when issues arise in production that are process related. 

• Ensure equipment plans, preventative maintenance and spare parts are in place to maintain production.  

• Work closely with other departments such as engineering, contract manufacturing, technicians etc. to coordinate activities and troubleshoot issues. 

• Create process documentation for products and submit change orders, change notices and deviations in documentation management system (Agile). 

• Drive daily operations of current products, continuously enhancing cost-effectiveness through lean manufacturing practices

• Coordinate transition of new products and product enhancements from concept through the manufacturing process to a finished product

• Develop test plans and procedures dealing with material acquisition and substitution problems, as well as technical issues impacting shipments.  

• Ensure product development plan is complete and properly implemented, ensuring manufacturing resources are properly directed during the entire product life cycle

• Ensure plans and documentation are in place for test, assembly, training, process, materials transition and manufacturability

• Interface with quality to establish quality methods and metrics

• Estimate manufacturing cost, determines time standards, and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines

• Interface with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products. Interfaces with purchasing in the selection/qualification of suppliers

• Responsible for replication of field and factory problems. 

• Ownership and maintenance of existing and new manufacturing test setups in Sunnyvale.

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Essential Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Systems, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with a general technical background in electronics and mechanical manufacturing methods.

• Experience with production processes, assembly processes, test systems, control software, and electronics processes.

• Understanding of general manufacturing processes and systems (inventory control, scheduling, new model development, and quality).

• Demonstrable experience in electronic manufacturing/test environment.

• Ability to analyze production processes and systems, and identify concerns.

• Fluent in English.

• International Travel required - 5-10%

Logistics

Location: Sunnyvale, CA, Dayton, OH, or Westminster, CO

Travel Requirement: 5-10% International Travel

Why You'll Love Working With Us

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.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Product Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering, Electronics Manufacturing, New Product Introduction, NPI, Industrial Engineering, Lean Manufacturing, Agile, Test Engineering, Systems Engineering, Supply Chain Operations

About the Trimble Operations Product Engineering Division

The Product Engineering team has members all over the world. The team is responsible for seeing that systems are created for producing the designs that have been created by engineering. Additionally, the team is responsible for ensuring that the product is consistently and reliably produced. Finally, the team is responsible for the safe delivery to the distribution centers.

About Trimble

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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