Senior Engineer, Virtual Design & Verification (Vd&V)

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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Ankeny

Function: Engineering (CA)

Title: Senior Engineer, Virtual Design & Verification (VD&V) - 99478

Onsite/Remote:Onsite Position

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, Virtual Design & Verification (VD&V) for the John Deere Crop Care, Des Moines Works division, in Ankeny, IA, you will provide technical leadership to the development of VDV load cases and acceptance criteria for the Application Equipment product line and act as a technical expert within the Crop Care VDV team. In addition, you will:

• Maintain the Crop Care VDV Engineering Analysis Procedure (EAP) documentation in eKV and maintain Tableau dashboards.
• Collaborate with Crop Care Product Engineering teams and stakeholders to identify product and Product Verification & Validation (PV&V) process improvement opportunities to reduce program risk, improve PDP efficiencies and reduce product and PDP cost.
• Collaborate with the Crop Care Data Analytics team to refine our product duty cycles.

Visa Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position.

What Skills You Need

• Strong product development experience.
• Strong expertise in test data processing, including the use of nCode.
• Exhibit strong collaboration skills working with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated capabilities for technical mentoring.
• Strong analytical capabilities coupled with capability to effectively communicate complex information to a broad audience.
• Leadership skills in transferring abstract ideas into deliverables and the ability to motivate individuals and teams toward the targeted outcomes.
• Understanding of structural analysis and how load cases and acceptance criteria are used to evaluate duty cycle events.
• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and/or internationally, based on business needs.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Deep understanding of structural analysis using finite element analysis.
• Experienced user of nCode, Databricks and Tableau.
• Deep understanding of PV&V test procedures and execution.
• Experience using data base processing and custom instrumentation and data collection.
• Master's Degree in an engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and drive a simulation-based product development culture.

Education Details

Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in an engineering discipline.

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement.

Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:

• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Benefit Pension)
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Flexible work arrangements
• Tuition assistance
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Charitable contribution match
• Adoption assistance

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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

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