Product Engineer

Safety awareness opportunity in our Product Management team

Are you ambitious and have a high personal drive? Do you want to help us making the heavy construction industry safer and contribute to a more sustainable world? The construction industry is using automation to increase safety and efficiency. To make that happen, and to support a more sustainable construction process, machine control is used. This is where you come into play. We now have an opportunity for an experienced product engineer to join our Safety awareness team in Product Management at Leica Geosystems Machine Control Division in Odense, Denmark.

For us, great humour, high spirits, and opportunities to develop are the main factors which create a great workplace. Located in Odense, Leica Geosystems offers a highly motivating environment to become involved with. You will also interact with colleagues in many other countries. You can expect 20-30 % international travel.

We focus on creating the best conditions for employees to thrive in and because of this, we continue developing our state-of-the-art technology and our innovative solutions, as well as our top projects and product management skills.

Naturally, we have flexible work models that allow you to maintain your work/life balance. However, we can promise you that you will miss your wonderful colleagues and the in-house atmosphere when you are not at the office. And please don’t get us started about our workplace-canteen.

The role

We are offering a new and exciting position in our Product Management Organization, interfacing with R&D, Aftermarket, Operations and Sales. We service customers globally based on our practical and hands-on way of working, and we have established an excellent team with focus on fulfilling the needs of our customers.

With rapid adoption of technology in the safety awareness space our products and portfolio are poised to drive positive change in a very challenging & dynamic heavy construction landscape. If you want to know more about the solution please read here: https://leica-geosystems.com/products/machine-control-systems/awareness-solutions

The role

As a Product Engineer specializing in Safety Awareness, the main focus will be on driving the technical implementation of formal business cases by providing detailed documentation. Additionally, this role involves acting as a facilitator between various departments to ensure accurate delivery of requirements, documentation, and execution of policies and processes. The role is to support the Product Manager as the internal technical expert for our Safety Awareness portfolio, driving customer-centric innovation to deliver exceptional end-user products and experiences.

Your tasks will include:

• Create detailed documentation outlining specifications and requirements for product development.
• Contributes to market analyses that identify all relevant current and future market elements such as trends, patterns, and opportunities for product enhancement that will determine product success. The analyses will typically include elements such as market needs, competitive product features in the marketplace, competitor strategies, market segmentation, etc.
• Contributes to product pricing strategy based on market elasticity, competitive product comparisons, support, and other factors related to the overall competitive position of the market.
• Provides input to the division roadmap and supporting documentation needed in decision making on future product investments.
• Support the Product Manager in Go-To-Market strategies and positioning of products and features.

Your profile

We expect you to have a relevant degree Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering, Surveying, Business, Technology) or equivalent combination of education and experience. What matters most to us is that you are honest, engaged, structured, analytical, and willing to be part of a great team where we value and use our differences to push the limit of quality and performance.

In addition, we expect you to have:

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive actionable insights from complex data sets, ability to rapidly grasp customers' requirements and technical solutions.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy.
• Passion for understanding user needs and a commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences.
• Must be able to accept a high level of personal responsibility for product success in an environment of shared resources.
• Experience in working as part of a product development process, Scrum, Agile SAFE frameworks are seen as a plus.
• Knowledge and or experience in heavy construction or mining the machine control construction industries is a plus.
• Ability to form strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and represent the company professionally.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface at multiple levels and functions.
• A passion for learning new things and developing yourself and the team.
• Self-motivated, result driven and flexible team player.
• Strong proficiency in English, other languages are considered a bonus.

Company description

Leica Geosystems Machine Control is part of Hexagon’s Geosystems division. Leica Geosystems creates complete solutions for professionals in a diverse mix of industries, such as aerospace and defence, safety and security, construction, and manufacturing. With precise and accurate instruments, sophisticated software, and trusted services, Leica Geosystems delivers value every day to those shaping the future of our world. In Machine Control Division we are offering simplified and connected machine control solutions for increasing productivity, efficiency and safety in heavy construction operations.

Hexagon is the global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. Our solutions free our customers to harness the rapidly-increasing amounts of data, putting it to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector and mobility applications. Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.2bn EUR.

Interested?

Apply using this link and upload your CV and covering letter in English. Interviews will be held as and when relevant candidates apply; candidates will be asked to carry out a case task during the interview process. All applications are treated as fully confidential.

For questions regarding the position, please get in touch with Sr Product Manager, Brad Mullis (+45 6617 0784) or HR Business Partner, Jessica Nyström (+46 7027 83226).

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