15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154
Why Valmont
Welcome to Valmont, where a world of opportunity awaits. When you join our team, you become part of a passionate group dedicated to changing lives and conserving resources around the globe. We want problem solvers who roll up their sleeves to foster progress and innovation for all people. At Valmont, we provide infrastructure, irrigation, tubing and coatings to the world. We strengthen cities. We nourish croplands. We design, manufacture and coat. Our products and services make a difference. Join us, and BUILD YOUR WORLD.
A Brief Summary of This Position:
Valmont is seeking a highly motivated individual and leader who seeks to improve innovatively business performance within various engineering environments in a highly matrixed environment. The successful candidate will operate at a strategic level with an entrepreneurial attitude and possess the necessary planning, selling (internal and external), and delivery and support skills to deliver complex programs to mid and upper management levels focusing on the engineering and drafting functional areas. This position is accountable for overseeing the day-to-day management and leadership of engineering platforms and systems including but not limited to configure price and quote (CPQ), Product Lifecycle management (PLM), Design automation (DA) and Engineering analysis and calculation systems. This role will own the implementation and technical governance to meet or exceed user expectations in terms of on time delivery performance and solution completeness objectives. This position is also responsible for ensuring industry best practices are followed and provides technical consultation and support in the development and implementation of these tools. The ideal candidate will lead and manage implementations and is be responsible for reliable consulting support using internal resources and/or via third party strategic service providers and contractors.
Essential Functions:
• This position reports to Senior Director (VSO) - Business and Value Stream Lead and has 5 direct reports and 15 indirect reports (these will change over time)
• Travel requirements: generally occasional with up to 20% both domestic and internationally, including overnight stays, periodically for projects
• Responsible for the AOP, managing capitalization and operations of the engineering value stream
• Develop, socialize, and lead engineering IT Vision aligning to the corporate IT simplification and standardization strategy
• Lead business requirement gathering sessions and educate our business subject matter experts on engineering platforms and system with best practices and industry practices
• Must be able to seek global optimization opportunities across multiple divisions and sponsor standard work processes across them and within various engineering value streams
• Ability to understand the need for technology and application consolidation with a proven experience in this area
• Accountable for individual programs and project deliveries. Support the VSO’s project initiatives and collaborate with the PMO team.
• Responsible in simplifying our technology footprint globally and across divisions and enforce this behavior with our VSO team and the Business Partners
• Assure scalability of solutions. Solutions that are selected must scale to our global needs both in functionality and capability.
• Support the Business Partners in their quest for business unit optimization
• Be consultative and entrepreneurial and drive business solutions to real problems before the business brings them to us
• Collaborate with all Business Partners to understand the individual divisional and product line needs. Integrate themselves as part of our business community across all product lines and corporate functions.
• Responsible for the decommissioning of redundant, non-strategic and obsolete applications
• Provide learning opportunities about their value stream and processes/applications of coverage to the Business Partners and the businesses
• Architect solutions that can be adapted globally with an understanding of general business requirements and market trends in the areas of focus for Valmont
• Vendor management/relationships regarding the systems supported. Support VSO's contract and vendor management activities including but not limited to negotiations.
Other Important Details about the Role:
The successful candidate has successfully managed and implemented PLM, CPQ and Engineering technologies and business programs while supporting rationalization efforts with global organizations in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and North America. The candidate has a broad experience in leveraging modern approaches (e.g. agile, design thinking) to streamline operational processes and generate business benefits through an executable strategy. Ideally the candidate is well versed in configuration management, product lifecycle management and design automation for the agriculture, energy, industrial, IM&C, and/or distribution industries where his/her efforts have resulted in cost savings, high ROI’s and improved operational efficiencies. This position plays an integral role in application consolidation strategy and achieving the digital transformation goals maintaining higher levels of business user satisfaction. Collaborates with internal technology groups to ensure that implemented engineering technical solutions align with the company's overall objectives and IT vision. The following is expected:
• Apply a customer experience lens to implementation to deliver projects on time on budget with quality
• Tell the story of a vision for how engineering would evolve within the Enterprise ecosystem Market our teams and services to the rest of the company
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and external users
• Inform key product stakeholders including company leadership of current and emerging market trends and representative to customer feedback
• Build short and long-term strategic roadmaps for all engineering systems architecture
• Develop team members to embrace new technologies and broaden skillsets to enable future transformational initiatives
• Partner with technology solution providers and third party implementors to deliver sustainable, scalable, and secure solutions that drive value to the organization
• Circulate technical roadmaps that align IT priorities with business partner needs
• Demonstrate digital opportunities and collaborate with internal innovation teams
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent application support framework is applied across the company
• Develop application and infrastructure rationalization framework to reduce technical debt
• Remain relevant and knowledgeable on engineering system frameworks
• Support the design and modeling of tactical architectures for the delivery, development, and support of projects
• Manage and facilitate change review board/council to evaluate application changes impact on production environment
• Monitor new technological advances in application support and information technologies
• Enable Devops model to deploy enhancements and minor bug fixes to production environment
• Collaborate with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Collaborate with Information Security to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy and policies
• Collaborate with other technical teams and developers to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable application support solution
• Remain active in external networks to proactively integrate new technologies, as business needs change
• Actively participate in the development of the functional area/digital global strategy
• Maintain proficiency in Agile development methodologies and demonstrate understanding of the SCRUM Master role
Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Management with 7+ years relevant experience, Associates Degree with 9+ years’ relevant experience or 11+ years’ relevant experience
• 7+ years of engineering platform experience and subject matter expertise in the engineering eco system (PLM, CPQ, CAD, Engineering Analysis)
• 3+ years of global IT experience and team management experience
• Highly motivated, disciplined, and self-directed with a commitment to excellence
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile/ Lean Startup methodologies. Experience working in a rapid Five or more years of application support or project leadership experience
• Experience building application teams
• Experience in designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions
• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud, hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• Demonstrated experience with the business process and performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis
• The ability to “think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• A demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders
• The ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to take principled bets on new technology
• The ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements
• The ability to build a comprehensive understanding of and strategically connect the needs of multiple functional areas
• The ability to perform all essential job functions of the position with or without accommodations
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time periodically locally and internationally based on the business needs
Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:
• Master's degree
• Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), or another relevant academic discipline
• Communicates IT requirements and guidelines to vendor partners.
• Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills. Valmont business systems and process knowledge (for internal candidates only)
• Clear understanding and passion for industry trends such as the digital twin, Industry 4.0, digital thread concepts
• PLM/ PDM /CPQ/ERP/CRM Enterprise Architecture and design Experience
• Active participant in Developer networks and latest technology trends communities
Working Environment and Physical Efforts:
• Work is typically performed in an office setting. The incumbent is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, as well as talk and listen on the phone and in personal conversations or meetings. The environment is fast-paced and demanding most of the time. Travel requirements: generally occasional with up to 20% both domestic and internationally, including overnight stays, periodically for projects. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms while working in the office with various files and forms and while working on the computer. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk when moving about the office. Incumbent must utilize proper ergonomic safeguards such as monitor height and positions, keyboard location and height and proper wrists rests. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds in working with large files, binders, and computer equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
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Why Valmont
Welcome to Valmont, where a world of opportunity awaits. When you join our team, you become part of a passionate group dedicated to changing lives and conserving resources around the globe. We want problem solvers who roll up their sleeves to foster progress and innovation for all people. At Valmont, we provide infrastructure, irrigation, tubing and coatings to the world. We strengthen cities. We nourish croplands. We design, manufacture and coat. Our products and services make a difference. Join us, and BUILD YOUR WORLD.
A Brief Summary of This Position:
Valmont is seeking a highly motivated individual and leader who seeks to improve innovatively business performance within various engineering environments in a highly matrixed environment. The successful candidate will operate at a strategic level with an entrepreneurial attitude and possess the necessary planning, selling (internal and external), and delivery and support skills to deliver complex programs to mid and upper management levels focusing on the engineering and drafting functional areas. This position is accountable for overseeing the day-to-day management and leadership of engineering platforms and systems including but not limited to configure price and quote (CPQ), Product Lifecycle management (PLM), Design automation (DA) and Engineering analysis and calculation systems. This role will own the implementation and technical governance to meet or exceed user expectations in terms of on time delivery performance and solution completeness objectives. This position is also responsible for ensuring industry best practices are followed and provides technical consultation and support in the development and implementation of these tools. The ideal candidate will lead and manage implementations and is be responsible for reliable consulting support using internal resources and/or via third party strategic service providers and contractors.
Essential Functions:
• This position reports to Senior Director (VSO) - Business and Value Stream Lead and has 5 direct reports and 15 indirect reports (these will change over time)
• Travel requirements: generally occasional with up to 20% both domestic and internationally, including overnight stays, periodically for projects
• Responsible for the AOP, managing capitalization and operations of the engineering value stream
• Develop, socialize, and lead engineering IT Vision aligning to the corporate IT simplification and standardization strategy
• Lead business requirement gathering sessions and educate our business subject matter experts on engineering platforms and system with best practices and industry practices
• Must be able to seek global optimization opportunities across multiple divisions and sponsor standard work processes across them and within various engineering value streams
• Ability to understand the need for technology and application consolidation with a proven experience in this area
• Accountable for individual programs and project deliveries. Support the VSO’s project initiatives and collaborate with the PMO team.
• Responsible in simplifying our technology footprint globally and across divisions and enforce this behavior with our VSO team and the Business Partners
• Assure scalability of solutions. Solutions that are selected must scale to our global needs both in functionality and capability.
• Support the Business Partners in their quest for business unit optimization
• Be consultative and entrepreneurial and drive business solutions to real problems before the business brings them to us
• Collaborate with all Business Partners to understand the individual divisional and product line needs. Integrate themselves as part of our business community across all product lines and corporate functions.
• Responsible for the decommissioning of redundant, non-strategic and obsolete applications
• Provide learning opportunities about their value stream and processes/applications of coverage to the Business Partners and the businesses
• Architect solutions that can be adapted globally with an understanding of general business requirements and market trends in the areas of focus for Valmont
• Vendor management/relationships regarding the systems supported. Support VSO's contract and vendor management activities including but not limited to negotiations.
Other Important Details about the Role:
The successful candidate has successfully managed and implemented PLM, CPQ and Engineering technologies and business programs while supporting rationalization efforts with global organizations in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and North America. The candidate has a broad experience in leveraging modern approaches (e.g. agile, design thinking) to streamline operational processes and generate business benefits through an executable strategy. Ideally the candidate is well versed in configuration management, product lifecycle management and design automation for the agriculture, energy, industrial, IM&C, and/or distribution industries where his/her efforts have resulted in cost savings, high ROI’s and improved operational efficiencies. This position plays an integral role in application consolidation strategy and achieving the digital transformation goals maintaining higher levels of business user satisfaction. Collaborates with internal technology groups to ensure that implemented engineering technical solutions align with the company's overall objectives and IT vision. The following is expected:
• Apply a customer experience lens to implementation to deliver projects on time on budget with quality
• Tell the story of a vision for how engineering would evolve within the Enterprise ecosystem Market our teams and services to the rest of the company
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and external users
• Inform key product stakeholders including company leadership of current and emerging market trends and representative to customer feedback
• Build short and long-term strategic roadmaps for all engineering systems architecture
• Develop team members to embrace new technologies and broaden skillsets to enable future transformational initiatives
• Partner with technology solution providers and third party implementors to deliver sustainable, scalable, and secure solutions that drive value to the organization
• Circulate technical roadmaps that align IT priorities with business partner needs
• Demonstrate digital opportunities and collaborate with internal innovation teams
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent application support framework is applied across the company
• Develop application and infrastructure rationalization framework to reduce technical debt
• Remain relevant and knowledgeable on engineering system frameworks
• Support the design and modeling of tactical architectures for the delivery, development, and support of projects
• Manage and facilitate change review board/council to evaluate application changes impact on production environment
• Monitor new technological advances in application support and information technologies
• Enable Devops model to deploy enhancements and minor bug fixes to production environment
• Collaborate with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions
• Collaborate with Information Security to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy and policies
• Collaborate with other technical teams and developers to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable application support solution
• Remain active in external networks to proactively integrate new technologies, as business needs change
• Actively participate in the development of the functional area/digital global strategy
• Maintain proficiency in Agile development methodologies and demonstrate understanding of the SCRUM Master role
Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Management with 7+ years relevant experience, Associates Degree with 9+ years’ relevant experience or 11+ years’ relevant experience
• 7+ years of engineering platform experience and subject matter expertise in the engineering eco system (PLM, CPQ, CAD, Engineering Analysis)
• 3+ years of global IT experience and team management experience
• Highly motivated, disciplined, and self-directed with a commitment to excellence
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile/ Lean Startup methodologies. Experience working in a rapid Five or more years of application support or project leadership experience
• Experience building application teams
• Experience in designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions
• Comprehensive knowledge of cloud, hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
• Demonstrated experience with the business process and performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis
• The ability to “think big” and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organization skills
• A demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders
• The ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to take principled bets on new technology
• The ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements
• The ability to build a comprehensive understanding of and strategically connect the needs of multiple functional areas
• The ability to perform all essential job functions of the position with or without accommodations
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time periodically locally and internationally based on the business needs
Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:
• Master's degree
• Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), or another relevant academic discipline
• Communicates IT requirements and guidelines to vendor partners.
• Quickly comprehends the functions and capabilities of new technology.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills. Valmont business systems and process knowledge (for internal candidates only)
• Clear understanding and passion for industry trends such as the digital twin, Industry 4.0, digital thread concepts
• PLM/ PDM /CPQ/ERP/CRM Enterprise Architecture and design Experience
• Active participant in Developer networks and latest technology trends communities
Working Environment and Physical Efforts:
• Work is typically performed in an office setting. The incumbent is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, as well as talk and listen on the phone and in personal conversations or meetings. The environment is fast-paced and demanding most of the time. Travel requirements: generally occasional with up to 20% both domestic and internationally, including overnight stays, periodically for projects. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms while working in the office with various files and forms and while working on the computer. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk when moving about the office. Incumbent must utilize proper ergonomic safeguards such as monitor height and positions, keyboard location and height and proper wrists rests. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds in working with large files, binders, and computer equipment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
#LI-MB1
Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
If you have a disability and require any assistance in filling out the application for employment email [ Email address blocked ] - Click here to apply to Director, Engineering Technology.
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