Engineering Manager

Elevate Your Impact as a Leader at Trimble!

Ready to spearhead the future of autonomous machine control?

As our next Senior Program Manager, you will lead a high-performing team within the Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT) joint venture, orchestrating the development of cutting-edge hardware and software platforms. Your leadership will directly transform how the world’s most iconic earthmoving and paving machines operate on a global scale.

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.

Field Systems: The Trimble Field Systems segment provides solutions to increase precision and productivity in construction tasks by empowering stakeholders to collect accurate information and manage conditions with cutting-edge technology.

What Makes This Role Great

In this role, you will be the primary architect of the CTCT Machine Systems development process, directly influencing the integration of GNSS and optical technologies into world-class machinery. You will have the unique opportunity to bridge the gap between two industry giants, Caterpillar and Trimble, while mentoring a team of project managers to deliver innovative NPI programs that redefine construction productivity.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Lead a specialized team of program and project managers to deliver complex Machine Systems and integrated applications from concept to global launch.
• Own and optimize the CTCT T5 development process, ensuring efficient delivery of high-stakes NPI programs for both Caterpillar and Trimble.
• Partner with Technical Directors and Product Managers to establish a culture of continuous improvement and risk-based thinking across the product life cycle.
• Oversee large-scale development plans involving factory integration for construction and mining sectors, ensuring all technical and quality targets are met.
• Coach and mentor team members to expand their capabilities, fostering an environment where professional growth aligns with business success.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience leading complex New Product Introduction (NPI) programs within a multi-disciplinary hardware and software environment.
• Strong leadership background with a track record of managing and mentoring project management professionals.
• Deep understanding of product life cycle management and formal development processes (such as T5 or similar frameworks).
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders across global business units.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience working within a joint venture or high-level partnership between global technology or manufacturing firms.
• Familiarity with machine control technologies, GNSS, or autonomous systems in the construction or mining industries.

Logistics

• Location: Dayton, Ohio or Westminster, CO
• In office
• Travel Requirement: 10-20% (Occasional domestic and 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."

Program Management, NPI, Machine Control, CTCT, Caterpillar, Construction Technology, Project Leadership, Systems Integration, Product Life Cycle, Engineering Management

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

$136,400.00–$187,500.00

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Bonus Eligible?

Yes

Commission Eligible?

No

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 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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