Senior Product Engineer (Aftermarket) - Campinas/SP

As a Senior Product Engineer for the Aftermarket & Customer Support division (A&CS), you will support enterprise strategic sourcing and product marketing. This position covers the focus country/regional areas for lubricants and coolants, batteries, All-Makes, other strategic commodities, and miscellaneous product adoptions. Both the aftermarket and factory requirements will need to be aligned and supported. You will also be responsible for:  
  
 

Your Responsibilities

• Support strategically sourced products (batteries, oil, lubricants, coolants) regionally for the local factories as well as the aftermarket from an engineering perspective (i.e. Quality, Technical Specification, etc.);   
• Manage new product adoptions (Product Development Process) for both Deere and non-Deere branded products;  
• Ensure product safety and compliance for all products in the region; 
• Verify products meet or exceed performance and reliability goals (joint activity with marketing and supply management);  
• Handle any customer support (CSP) and product defect/warranty issues in conjunction with Fluids Engineering, DTAC/DPAC, and regional CPS organization;
• Coordinate supplier development activities (i.e. audits/assessments);
• Product alignment gaps for batteries, oil, lubricants, and coolants between the factory and the aftermarket, as well as aftermarket product adoptions to support the dealer organization;
• Tactical execution of product safety and compliance for the portfolio (both new and existing products);  
• Verification of new products or significant product updates from the quality, performance, and reliability perspective; 

What Skills You Need

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering; 
• Advanced English (Comprehensive vocabulary, good grammar, conducts meetings, argues, negotiates, and delivers training); 
• Experience with Aftermarket products such as lubricants and coolants, batteries and other strategic commodities; 
• Experience with product safety and supplier audits; 
• Customer support for the portfolio; 
• Experience handling any customer support (CSP) issues in conjunction with Fluids Engineering, DTAC/DPAC, and regional CPS organization; 

What Makes You Stand Out

• Teamwork and communication abilities are key success factors;
• Influence, self-motivated and results-driven attitude; 
• Knowledge of Deere or other OEM SBU operations and Dealer network/channels to include Dealer interaction; 
• Project Management and experience leading Business Process Improvements; 
• While this is an operations role, cross training background in Marketing, Sales or Customer process experience a plus; 
• Process tools and capabilities further desirable but not required include MS Project and MS Visio (process mapping).