What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Engineering Program Manager position at Generac Power Systems?
We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.
We’re looking for a Staff Engineering Program Manager to manage our software product initiatives, delivering new features on aggressive timelines to support key product launch dates. This individual will coordinate many different software and firmware teams, ensuring their success through assessing requirements, identifying risks, managing development schedules, and communicating clearly with project stakeholders.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establish and manage programs feature baseline, scheduling, critical path, and technology risk areas for execution.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies across the software, firmware, and hardware organizations.
- Build up customer context and relationships to identify software gaps, risks, and opportunities.
- Identify tactical (exercise operational excellence) and creative ways to overcome obstacles while meeting deadlines despite setbacks.
- Own key relationships with stakeholders to ensure we are on track to deliver the right features when needed.
- Keep engineering team organized, motivated, and focused on our goals, always keeping the customer first.
- Drive initiatives that allow us to be key differentiators in this market segment, competing with other industry leaders.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in an Engineering, Computer Science field, or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience working in an organizational role such as Product or Program management.
- Comfortably able to read code to understand what it does.
- Familiarity with querying and analyzing SQL and NOSQL data is a plus.
Preferred Requirements
- Must be able to understand complex integrated systems and their dependencies.
- Strong organizational skills along with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and shift priorities according to business needs.
- Easily and confidently communicate with executive management.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.
“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”
