2025019 Sr. Product Engineer-VD&V - Military Veterans

There are over 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we're all about at John Deere. And it's why we're investing in our people and our technology like never before! Here the world's brightest minds are tackling the world's biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we'll put you to work. RIGHT NOW.

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Primary Location: United States (US) - GA - Grovetown

Function: Technology

Title: Sr. Product Engineer-VD&V - 2025019

Onsite/Remote: Onsite Position

Your Responsibilities

As a Sr. Product Engineer-VD&V for John Deere in Grovetown, GA, you will:

• Plans, coordinates, performs analysis and simulation work for a complete project of broad scope or for a significant portion or a sub-system of a major and diverse project to virtually verify and validate product design specifications for tractors and their attachments
• Operates in a team environment and act as lead person, providing technical leadership and design solutions
• Assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to other engineers and support personnel
• Coach and mentor team members with diverse culture. Increase the execution and efficiency of product verification activities
• Develop data analytics methods and tools to unlock customer duty cycles and use cases
• Project work is applied to compact utility tractors and their implements
• Tractor forms are highly configurable with implements that include backhoe, box blade, mower decks and front end loader. These implements have different customer duty cycles that affect the durability of the tractor and implement
• This role plans, coordinates and performs structural simulations of the product in customer use cases to evaluate design proposals and prototyping to improve the mechanical durability of utility tractors and their implements
• Up to 10% domestic and international travel required. Must live within normal commuting distance of the worksite. 1 day of remote work allowed.

What Skills You Need

• 4 years of experience in application of FEA tools (including Ansys, Abaqus or Altair) and CAD manipulation/preparation tools to aid design and verify product durability to requirements
• Experience working through a minimum of 3 new product development programs by performing virtual design verification for geometry, contact, bolted joints, material non-linearity, resolving nonconvergence issues and using cloud computing tools to expedite analysis solutions
• Experience in identifying at least 2 of the following failure mechanisms and correlating with an FE-model: fatigue crack origination, overload, mis-assembly, secondary failure mechanisms, kinematic mechanism malfunction through inspections from field and test data/experience
• Experience in developing at least 2 simulation methods that eliminated test, communized simulation with test or resulted in publications (internal or external)
• Experience using nCode GlyphWorks to process data to create new duty cycles and gain key insights into test and simulation methods for a minimum of 5 projects and 5 glyphs
• 4 years of experience coaching global team of product development engineers (offshore and US based) to efficiently verify designs meet requirements using simulation and test
• 3 years of experience in predicting fatigue life using nCode Design Life or FE-Safe for variable amplitude duty cycles using strain life methods
• Experience managing and control a backlog list (at least 15 backlog items) of simulation work, including delegating work to global team members and contingent/contractors

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field plus 4 years related experience.

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:

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

$125,861 - $135,861 per year + Benefits

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Please apply on-line at www.JohnDeere.com/USJobs and search for Job Posting Number 2025019

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