Technical Project Manager for Harvesting Technologies

AGCO’s Research & Advanced Engineering center in Randers, Denmark is searching for a new Technical Project Manager to lead the technology development projects within the Harvesting product group.

Though based locally in Randers, you will become part of our global Engineering organization and play a key role in the development of advanced technologies and concepts for our global product portfolio of harvesting machineries and related technologies and services.

You will work alongside with the design teams for crop flow and crop processing and be responsible for the planning and execution of experimental testing and early prototyping for design space exploration and pre-development. Your project deliverables will be a functional proven concept and a set of design criteria’s for the subsequent product maturing and implementation within the design teams.

In addition, you will be responsible for supporting the electronics and software team in Randers with the planning and execution of practical experiments, data collection and validation across various technology projects

We live outside the box

As a small remote team in of one of the world’s leading companies within agriculture machinery, we find ourselves in the perfect spot creating a huge global impact to our industry while at the same time having the freedom to operate with the innovative mindset of a garage start-up. Our multidisciplinary team of engineers, students and technicians work jointly every day to explore new ideas and opportunities to deliver step change technologies and concepts enabling enhanced productivity and sustainability in agriculture. We are motivated by technology and use agile engineering principles to shorten the path from idea to reality utilizing our unique facilities for virtual development, prototyping, lab testing and field testing.

Tasks & responsibilities

• Ideation and trend scouting enabling future technology concepts and system solutions in agriculture

• Project management of research & advanced engineering projects related to crop flow and crop processing

• Direct communication with global design teams, cross-functional stakeholders and end-users to identify, understand and prioritize requirements

• Design of experiments for crop processing applications in an agricultural environment (virtual, lab and field environments)

• Analysis, evaluation and presentation of test results

• Close collaboration with global engineering design teams for iterative design validation and optimization

• Collaboration and management of external technology partners and contract engineering resources

• Management of project schedules and budgets according to AGCO’s global processes and governance models for product development

Competences and qualifications

• Bachelor or master’s degree in mechanical engineering

• Experience with project management of global engineering or research projects

• Broad experience with system analysis, validation and development of agricultural machinery

• Specific experience with combines and/or other harvesting machinery is a great advantage • Domain knowledge and basic understand of agriculture processes across the cropping cycle

• Practical experience with service and operation of agriculture machinery

• Basic experience with PDM management and PTC CREO or similar 3D CAD design

• Familiar with methods and tools for Design Of Experiments

Traits

• Excellent verbal and written English is necessary.

• Analytical and methodical with a creative mindset

• Great networking capabilities – you understand how to build and utilize your network for greater achievements

• Solution-oriented – quick in establishing the root cause of problems, even faster in finding potential solutions

• Costumer/end-user oriented – motivated by analyzing the pains and gains in the agriculture business and delivering value adding solutions to the end user

• It's a huge plus if you are proactive by nature and motivated by continually shaping and reshaping your own role supporting the global team objectives

We offer

• Challenges, responsibilities, and the opportunity to really leave your fingerprints on future technologies and products.

• Work in a Global company with daily interaction across countries, cultures and disciplines.

• To be part of a team with innovative and creative minds and great colleagues.

• To grow in a fast moving, and ever changing business.

• A collaborative culture where thoughts soon translates into action.

• Responsibility and empowerment to self-organize and execute

AGCO Corporations is one of the leading manufactures of agriculture machinery. Through the brands of Massey Fergusson, Fendt, Challenger, Valtra and GSI, AGCO delivers agriculture solutions to farmers worldwide through a full line portfolio of tractors combine harvesters, hay and forage equipment, seeding and tillage implements, applicators as well as grain storage and protein production systems. AGCO is headquartered in Atlanta US with worldwide facilities for manufacturing, engineering, sales and service. www.agcocorp.com The Danish facility for Research & Advanced Engineering is located at: Dronningborg Alle 2 8930 Randers NØ

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