Principal Engineer-Battery Development
Date: Oct 1, 2024
Location: Lewisville, TX, US, 75067
Company: PACCAR
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 designs and manufactures advanced powertrains and provides customized financial services, information technology, and truck parts related to its principal business.
Whether you want to design the transportation technology of tomorrow, support the staff functions of a dynamic, international leader, or build our excellent products and services — you can develop the career you desire with PACCAR. Get started!
Requisition Summary
Job Functions / Responsibilities
- Lead product development and validation activities related to:
- Requirements Definition
- Supplier selection
- Outsourcing contract engineering services work
- Maintain alignment with the Battery team and experts within PACCAR divisions
- Provide Technical Leadership for battery development programs and running business support
- Drive Uptime with electric powertrains and battery electric vehicles
- Determine department and project goals, track and manage
- Provide written and verbal updates to communicate status, changes, risks and improvement opportunities
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Physics required. Masters or Ph.D. preferred
- 10+ years commercial vehicle / industry experience required
- Demonstrated technical knowledge and working experience in battery development/integration for commercial vehicle applications, actively leading projects in this field
- Previous Supervisory or managerial experience required
- Demonstrated ability to work with a team to achieve timely objectives required
- Demonstrated leadership and effective collaboration across diverse teams solving complex problems required
- Demonstrated truck and powertrain product knowledge required
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven ability to deliver technical presentations and written reports to diverse audiences required
- Willingness to grow personally and professionally
- Willingness to collaborate on a global scale across multiple continents and time zones
- Ready to learn and make use of new processes and techniques
- Willingness to be outgoing, and engaging, with a demonstrated passion to deliver top quality results
Benefits
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 program
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- EAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
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