Your Title: CPI Black Belt Project Lead
Job Location: Dayton, OH OR Christchurch, NZ
Our Division: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

Are you interested in defining and driving world-class quality, ensuring our CTCT customers can reliably operate our industry-leading solutions?

What Makes This Role Great:

As a CPI Black Belt you will play a critical role in our quest to deliver defect-free products to our customers and will primarily focus on leading projects to achieve this goal. The role will focus on working across the organization to deliver thorough root cause corrective action (RCCA) and drive to address the “True Root Cause” of issues related to our products.

Key Exciting Responsibilities:

• Leading CPI projects to address issues and defects related to design, manufacturing, and supplier quality
• Supporting the team in data analysis to identify and prioritize key issues to ensure we minimize customer downtime
• Close collaboration with the extended team to support product quality, including a focus on analysis of all field defects and implementing robust stop capability to protect our customers
• Provide coaching to the extended organization on effective RCCA and identification of “True Root Cause” to address the broken process that allowed the defect to be created

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience in product development, design engineering, product service engineering, or as a field Technical Representative.

• Experience in more than one product development area or product group is desirable.

• Experience program management or project management. 

• Excellent communication skills (written, oral, presentation) for a global and diverse audience

• Strong analytical skills and capabilities. Ability to draw insights from data to make quick, well informed decisions.

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Bonus Points For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Technology Field or equivalent work experience

• 6 Sigma Black Belt training

• Ability to build strong relationships with various stakeholders and strong business acumen

• Distinct customer focus

• Ability to understand both technology and business domains

• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Your Core Competencies:

Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

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.

About Your Location

Trimble's Dayton, Ohio office, home to over 400 Trimble employees, is located in the Huber Heights area, and has a long-standing presence in the community. The Dayton team works on a variety of innovative projects, from corporate payroll and logistics to mechanical and firmware engineering, offering a dynamic environment where employees can make a tangible impact on a global scale

Based at Trimble’s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand is also home to over 400 Trimble employees, enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please Note: Only applicants legally entitled to work in either New Zealand or the United States, as appropriate, will be considered. 

About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, seehttp://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.

CPI (Continuous Product Improvement), RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action), True Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB), DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), DPU (Defects per Unit), Defect-Free Targets, NPI (New Product Introduction), 8D Problem Solving, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC), Design Engineering, Manufacturing Quality, Supplier Quality Management, Field Service Engineering, Data Analysis & Statistical Insights, Stop Capability (Quality Gatekeeping), Reliability Engineering, Field Defect Analysis, Machine Control Systems, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), Optical Total Stations, Automation & Positioning Technologies, Construction/Mining Technology, Earthmoving & Paving Solutions
 

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.

Hiring Range

Pay Rate Type

Bonus Eligible?

Commission Eligible?

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.”

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