Hardware Director

Overview

Hexagon’s Autonomous Solutions division is looking for a Hardware Director to join our team.  In this role, you will be responsible for providing both functional and technical lead ership to a global hardware organization and setting the strategic vision . The current hardware organization incorporates the mechanical, electrical, Radio Frequency , product compliance, hardware architect ure and test system disciplines . You will have the opportunity to shape the fut ure and evolve the people, process es, policies, and organization to meet the challenging needs of the business and customers.

Thi s role requires someone who thrive s on supporting their team s to effectively and efficiently deliver and support world class mining products that have high quality, and meet and exceed the customer expectation s . They will accomplish this by leveraging t heir unique leadership, mentoring and communication skills .

Responsibilities

As a Hardware Director, you will be responsible for:

• Working with the Vice President of Hardware Engineering on key strategies including collaboration opportunities between Hexagon’s Mining and Autonomy & Positioning organizations as well as across other Hexagon divisions .
• Setting the vision and goals of the hardware organization and ensuring the team s understand them and are focused on achieving them .
• Ensuring your global teams are highly collaborative and interact effectively with in the product development, operations and product management teams .
• D irect interaction with the key manufacturing and supply chain leaders to ensure the teams are addressing the right issues , at the right prio rity , using the right life cycle processes .
• Mentor ing you r technical staff and evolv ing their skills and experience as needed to ensure the product development project s are executed as per the project parameters , risks are mitigated , and challenges experienced are address ed in a structured and expedient way .
• Direct involvement with all development and pre- development project planning , project reviews and project approvals .
• Supporting your team with key project and resource priority decisions .
• Actively monitoring field quality and establishing correct actions and plans when required .
• Driv ing continuous improvement and consistency of development and risk processes .
• Work ing directly with other Engineering Directors to establish effective budgeting, planning , strategy alignment and overall engineering processes .
• Mentor ing the HW architect and help ing to evolve ‘system thinking’ within the Mining engineering team .
• Support ing the team with the evolution of the Tucson engineering lab and infrastructure .
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have:

• B.Sc. in Engineering (or equivalent)
• 1 0 + years’ experience in leading and shaping high - technolo gy teams and p roducts with focus on hardware and embedded products
• Clear understanding of effective hardware design processes in both new product development and life cycle support of existing products in the field
• Strong upward and downward written and verbal communication skills
• A creative and strong desire for continuous improvement
  
  

Key Success Factors :

• Strong collaboration, facilitation , mentorship and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively across a geographically disperse d , multi-disciplinary team
• Analytical problem-solving skills with systems thinking and attention to detail
  
  

Nice-to-Have :

• Firmware and embedded computing experience
• Experience with Product compliance and regulated substances knowledge
• Experience in robust product design for mining environments
• Familiar with mining applications and solutions
• Understanding of Agile Engineering principles
• Application of reliability engineering principles, including HALT, FMEA, FTA, MTBF, and RCA
  
  

Not sure if you meet all the qualifications for this role? Let us decide! At Hexagon, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you’re excited about the opportunities this role could bring, we encourage you to apply. For any questions about the role or our company, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be pleased to follow up with you. Please do not send cover letters or resumes to this address.

The Company: Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. You’ll be joining over 22,000 people in 50 countries on the leading edge of your field.

This position is with Hexagon’s Mining divsion, which solves usrfacea nd undergraound mine challenges with proven technolgoies for planning, operations and safety.

Applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at [email protected] .