Product Engineer

Product Engineer (Manufacturing Excellence Focus)

Are you ready to bridge the gap between design and physical production, ensuring high-quality technology reaches global markets? Trimble is seeking a dynamic Product Engineer to champion manufacturing efficiency, drive continuous improvement through lean practices, and collaborate with international teams to deliver world-class solutions.

About Us:

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

Corporate: Trimble empowers customers to drive productivity and progress with connected hardware and software solutions.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of developing manufacturing frameworks for cutting-edge products, directly influencing operational excellence and shaping the future of industrial technology. You will serve as the critical anchor between design engineering and global supply chains, transforming concepts into scalable, physical realities that impact vital global industries.

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. 

Essential Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Systems, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• 3 years of experience in an electronics and mechanical manufacturing environment.

• Strong background in production assembly processes, test systems, and control software.

• Proven ability to analyze manufacturing operations, isolate root causes, and implement corrective actions.

• Professional fluency in English with excellent cross-functional communication skills.

Bonus Points For

• Direct experience using Agile documentation management systems for submitting change orders and notices.

• Hands-on expertise implementing advanced lean manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies.

Logistics:

Location: Dayton, OH / in office

Travel Requirement: 5-10% international travel

Compensation:   95k +/-

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."

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: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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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