Chief Engineer

CNH; Zedelgem; Sur place; EUR 161 000 - 214 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible work arrangements

Savings & Retirement benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Fertility & Family building support

Employee Assistance Programs

Charitable contribution matching and V

Résumé du poste

CNH Industrial seeks a Chief Engineer to lead cross-functional teams in delivering innovative, customer-focused system solutions that meet performance, quality, cost, and timing targets. You will drive technology roadmaps, coordinate subsystems, and manage risks to ensure successful product development and deployment.

The role emphasizes ownership of engineering program execution, collaboration across electronics, software, and controls, and the adoption of advanced problem-solving techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive engineering experience, including leadership roles in complex product development.
• Experience leading cross-functional, system-level product development programs from concept through production.

Responsabilités

• Drive alignment and execution across cross-functional design, development, and validation teams to deliver integrated technical solutions.
• Create and execute technology solution roadmaps to support future product strategy.
• Develop resource and competence plans to deliver future roadmaps and ensure capability.
• Ensure adherence to defined design interfaces across engineering teams for reliable machine function.
• Identify design risks and proactively mitigate them using engineering tools and processes.
• Lead critical product and technology decisions and align stakeholders for effective execution.
• Ensure clear product requirements cascade to engineering teams to deliver customer value.
• Own engineering program execution with KPIs and milestones.
• Drive continuous process improvements, including AI-enabled capabilities.
• Transfer knowledge and documentation across the product lifecycle to enable manufacturing and service.

Connaissances

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Systems engineering

Software development practices

Open-source software

Engineering leadership

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Outils

Open-source software

Description du poste

About Us

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

About Us

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

From developing products that run on alternative power to productivity-enhancing precision tech, we are delivering solutions that benefit people – and they are possible thanks to people like you. If the opportunity to build your skills as part of a collaborative, global team excites you, you’re in the right place.

Grow a Career. Build a Future!

Be part of this company at the forefront of agriculture and construction, that passionately innovates to drive customer efficiency and success. And we know innovation can’t happen without collaboration. So, everything we do at CNH Industrial is about reaching new heights as one team, always delivering for the good of our customers.

Job Purpose

The Chief Engineer is the technical engineering leader responsible for delivering innovative, customer-focused products that meet performance, quality, cost, and timing objectives. This role supports cross-functional engineering teams to design, validate, and integrate complete system solutions, ensuring functionality, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability. This role drives technology roadmaps, aligns product requirements across subsystems, and manages technical risks and trade-offs, to optimize outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive alignment and execution across cross-functional design, development, and validation teams to deliver integrated technical solutions that meet customer requirements and current product program objectives. Serve as a point of accountability for product-level outcomes, with end-to-end ownership of system functionality, performance, reliability, durability, manufacturability, and serviceability. Define necessary changes to system-level targets, architectures, and key trade-offs to optimize customer value while meeting quality, cost, and timing commitments
• Responsible for creation of technology solution roadmaps to support future product strategy. Partners with product line and precision integration leaders to create, communicate and translate these technology solution roadmaps and execution to product line owners.
• Ensure creation and execution of resource and competence development plans to ensure capability to deliver future roadmaps. Drive the engineering resource and capability strategy to deliver current and future product roadmaps.
• Responsible for adherence to the defined design interfaces and delivery across all engineering teams (electronics, software, controls) to ensure successful machine function, reusability and exceptional customer experience.
• Identify design steps and risks, and proactively drive actions to mitigate risk from program(s) and leverages knowledge of engineering tools, processes, and advanced problem-solving techniques to efficiently deliver designs.
• Drive technical decisions related to product and technology when tradeoffs are required, through active collaboration with relevant teams and experts. Lead and own critical product and technology decisions, defining and balancing trade-offs, while aligning cross-functional stakeholders to enable effective execution.
• Ensure clear product requirements exist, are understood and are cascaded to relevant engineering teams to deliver customer value and program objectives.
• Own engineering program execution, ensuring alignment to key milestones, performance metrics (KPIs), deliverables, and driving accountability across teams to meet commitments for quality, cost, and timing.
• Drive continuous process improvements to accelerate team efficiency and capacity, including the adoption of digital and AI-enabled capabilities to improve engineering effectiveness and capacity
• Ensure the transfer of product knowledge and technical documentation across the product lifecycle, ensuring downstream stakeholders (e.g., manufacturing, suppliers, quality, service and platforms) are fully enabled to support production and deployment.

Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field; electrical, electronics or software engineering preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive engineering experience, including leadership roles in complex product development
• Proven experience leading cross-functional, system-level product development programs from concept through production
• Demonstrated ability to deliver products meeting performance, quality, cost, and timing objectives
• Strong understanding of multi-disciplinary engineering systems
• Requires an understanding of modern software development practices in resource constrained embedded

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using or creating open-source software
• Must be able to consume perspectives and requirements from a wide variety of stakeholders and drive to common solution
• Strong focus on driving scalable software and hardware modularity.
• Experience in long lifecycle management program
• Development experience in off-highway segment

Pay Transparency

The annual salary for this role is USD $185,625.00 - $247,500.00 plus any applicable bonus (Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as skill, experience and qualification for the role.)

For roles open across multiple locations, the salary range indicated refers to the primary location. If a different location is considered, the applicable salary range will be communicated to candidates prior to the first interview.

What We Offer

We offer dynamic career opportunities across an international landscape. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to delivering value for all our employees and fostering a culture of respect.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Savings & Retirement benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility & Family building support
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off

US applicants: CNH Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights by viewing the federal "Know Your Rights" poster here. CNH Industrial participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. You can view additional information here.

Canada applicants: CNH Industrial is an equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, place of origin, disability, marital status, family status, age, or any other ground prohibited by applicable provincial human rights legislation.

If you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at [e-mail].