Principal Engineer - Machine Integration Lead

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

 

Principal Machine Integration Lead Engineer

 

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

 

 

The Principal Machine Integration Lead Engineer– Global Platform Development leads engineering development activities for mobile cleaning equipment products on new product development and large-scale lifecycle management efforts at Tennant.  This position primarily works as the Engineering Lead on a cross-functional team to design and develop innovative electro-mechanical machines that meet requirements for performance, quality, product cost, and project timelines.  Additionally, this role leads and contributes to technical product strategy development including: product platform and architecture development, product simplification improvements, technology and innovation concept development, product roadmap inputs, and project strategy phase execution.

 

Required Skills

• Broad technical knowledge in the design and development of mechanical and computer controlled electromechanical systems. 
• Engineering project leadership with excellent project planning & organization
• Self-starter, able to successfully manage ambiguous design tasks. 
• Requirements development & decomposition, maintenance, & use of requirements tools (such as Visure, Jama, DOORS, etc.)  
• Proficient in design and validation tools including FMEA, DFA/M, HARA, DVP&R, tolerance analysis & GD&T, problem solving (8D or similar)  
• Ability to model and predict system performance based on engineering principles. 
• Proficiency in CAD required (SolidWorks preferred) 
• Data based decision making / statistical analysis. 
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. 
• Ability to develop engineering standards. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to effectively present information to a variety of internal and external groups. 

 

Required Experience

• BS in Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent from an ABET accredited four-year college or university. 
• MS in Systems or Mechanical Engineering preferred. 
• 10 + years of new product development experience, with project leadership experiences strongly preferred. 
• Strong project planning / management experiences. Project Management Professional (PMP) a plus.
• Experience in electric vehicle &/or autonomous vehicle development preferred
• Strong technical background, with machine & system integration experiences on complex electro-mechanical systems, ideally on electric vehicle architectures, systems, & subsystems
• Demonstrated experience in vehicle-level systems requirements development, management, & architecture definition
• Experience with problem solving processes, tools and techniques (8D, Six Sigma / DMAIC, root cause analysis tools- DFMEA, 5-why, fishbone etc.).
• Experience with issue-tracking systems (JIRA, Confluence etc.) a plus
• Background in product development certification processes for regulatory and third-party certifications to obtain CE marking, UL marking, and comply with applicable safety standards such as IEC/UL 60335-1, IEC/UL 60335-2-72, UL-583, UL-558, IEC 63327
• Knowledge in Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) practices/tools (such as SysML modeling) and experience in applying it to the full engineering lifecycle a plus
• INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus

 

 

Additionally, this role: 

• Manages technical aspects of multiple system integration
• Applies principles of engineering and science to lead the development of product designs at the machine and subsystem level that deliver lasting