Vehicle Properties Supervisor

Company Information

PACCAR is a Fortune 500 company established in 1905. PACCAR Inc is recognized as a global leader in the commercial vehicle, financial, and customer service fields with internationally recognized brands such as Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF trucks.

PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality light-, medium-, and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates.

PACCAR also designs and manufactures advanced diesel engines, provides financial services and information technology, and distributes truck parts related to its principal business.

Kenworth Truck Company

Kenworth Truck Company, founded in 1923, is the manufacturer of The World's Best heavy and medium duty trucks. With an excellent heritage of quality, innovation and technology, Kenworth has played an essential role in the development of trucks that are more fuel efficient, productive, and economical to operate.

Today, Kenworth is leading transportation innovation with the introduction of battery-electric vehicles, exploration of fuel cell electric powertrains, and autonomous driving systems.

Kenworth is committed to fostering an environment of diversity, equality and inclusivity in the workplace.

Requisition Summary

The Vehicle Integration Department focus is to drive a systems approach for vehicle development starting with the high-level vehicle performance and functionality needs of the industry.

This performance and systems team is one of three branches of early definition and strategic planning within the department.

In this leadership role you will guide a team of technical engineers across the vehicle domains such as drivability, fuel efficiency, energy efficiency, reliability, diagnostics, thermal management, and more.

Scope of work includes leading systems analysis direction for customer requirements decomposition, impact assessments for new technologies, definition of vehicle and system-level targets, and developing validation requirements.

In this position, a successful candidate will lead cross-functional team members to define expectations at the vehicle performance (top level) for the future products to come in areas such as battery electric, internal combustion, hydrogen fuel cell, ADAS, connected vehicles, and much more.

Job Functions / Responsibilities

Lead a team of Subject Matter Experts (SME) within the Vehicle Definition Department. You will champion technical processes, standard methodologies and tool development for system engineering and product development.

Conduct requirements collection and creation, vehicle to system decomposition, preliminary product concepts, support product realization, and oversee design verification testing, system integration, product compliancy.

• Develop and champion system engineering principles and practices to global teams of mechanical, electrical, and software domains through vehicle level performance definition and decomposition support to system and sub-system requirements.
• Coordinate with Product Planning to understandcustomer requirements
• Champion roadmaps by building business plans and soliciting technologies with cross-functional global teams for aligned program scope inclusion.
• Host global alignment reviews of vehicle domain roadmaps with executive engineering leadership of product development.
• Lead technical team responsible for defining vehicle level requirements and translate these requirements to system and component design teams.

ex. energy economy, drivability, thermal management reliability, diagnostics, connectivity, etc.).

• Lead building and maintaining vehicle-level simulation models to enable system optimization.
• Support and provide feedback during technical, concept, and final design reviews.
• Lead migration and creation of requirements into IBM Doors Next Generation to improve consumption of requirements to cross-division and cross-discipline teams.
• Up to 10% travel may be required including international.

Qualifications / Skills

• 5+ years of experience required.
• BS in Engineering or related field required; MS in Engineering or related field and PE license preferred.
• 5+ years of leadership and team building experience preferred.
• Experience in engineering fields, particularly in the automotive industry
• Ability to communicate complex concepts or data in a simple yet accurate manner to executive leaders
• Ability to promote and gain support for continued growth in systems thinking, toolsets, and processes.
• Ability to be a change agent of the organization
• Presentation skills for technical or executive audiences
• Development of program-wide schedules, milestones, and action plans
• Focus on interdepartmental communication
• Experience in authoring technical requirements (S.M.A.R.T.)
• Requires independent judgment and effective decision-making skills.
• Experience in IBM Doors Next Gen or requirements management databases
• Understanding of Mathematical modeling systems such as : Mathworks Simulink / Stateflow / Matlab, AVL Cruise, GT Power, etc.

Why work for PACCAR / Kenworth?

• Global Fortune 500Company with a wide array of growth and development opportunities
• Work alongside experienced goal-oriented colleagues recognized as experts in their fields
• Support and / or design the commercial vehicles of the future with a focus on emerging technologies such as electric and autonomous trucks

As a U.S. PACCAR employee, you have a full range of benefit options including :

• 401k with up to a 5% company match
• Fully funded pension plan that provides monthly benefits after retirement
• Comprehensive paid time off - minimum of 10 paid vacation days (additional days are provided with additional seniority / years of service), 12 paid holidays, and sick time
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education
• Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)
• Paid short-and long-term disability programs
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• EAP services include wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more

Additional Job Board Information

At PACCAR, we value talent and promote growth and development. We carefully consider numerous compensation factors including your education, training, or experience.

The salary range for Vehicle Properties Supervisor is $110,600 - $173,000 annually. This position is also eligible for a holiday gift.

Additionally, this role is eligible for the full range of benefit options listed above.

PACCAR promotes equal employment opportunities by implementing policies and practices that ensure employees and applicants are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status or other legally protected status.

This applies to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, termination, rates of pay, and other conditions of employment.