Title: Senior Technical Program Director – Downstream
Job Location: Santa Clara, Ca
Job Term: Full-time
Travel: < 10%
Flexible Vacation Policy
The Opportunity:
Picarro, Inc. is looking for a ‘Senior Technical Program Director - Downstream’ to join their Environmental Solutions team. In this role, you will guide and document product transitions out of engineering and into operations while maintaining all product technical information. Additionally, any non-standard releases or batch manufacturing needs will be executed under your direct supervision.
The successful candidate will need to be personable, have a strong product engineering background, and hold exceptional organizational / documentation skills.
Primary Duties
- Develop a thorough understanding of the technical aspects of all products and their subsystems.
- Organize and maintain documentation and specifications for all products and subsystems.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Operations to ensure hardware tests effectively reveal real-world failure modes.
- Work with software teams to compile accurate revision histories and release notes as needed.
- Support the software QA team in testing new software releases on compatible hardware.
General Expectations:
- Be flexible and ready to tackle a variety of technical challenges beyond your specialized niche.
- Provide opinions with regards to design when warranted .
- Provide emergency support (possibly onsite) for field engineers if needed.
- Stay informed about customer and regulatory requirements affecting system design.
- Create presentations for internal or external use when needed.
- Train new employees when necessary.
Our total compensation packages includes base salary, bonus eligibility, and equity.
Qualifications:
- Approximately 20+ years of experience in an industrial role as product oriented engineer / scientist.
- Proficiency in any computer-aided design platform, preferably Solidworks.
- Ability to interpret and create multiple types of technical documentation and drawings.
- Ability to travel approximately < 10% of the time.
- Strong interpersonal communications skills and ability to thrive in a team setting.
- Ability to stay current on best practices, emerging technologies, and industry trends by self-learning.
- Bachelors degree in any technical discipline (i.e. basic sciences and or engineering).
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