AGCO is looking for a Technical Validation Engineer to join their Gold Harvesting Team to build and maintain assigned equipment, validate machinery performance and reliability with farmers, and assist in identifying and resolving safety hazards.
Requirements
- 1+ years of field/technical experience in testing/operation of agriculture or off highway equipment.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and fabrication skills.
- Experience troubleshooting including CAN-BUS systems, mechanical systems, and electrical systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain assigned equipment starting with assembly from engineering drawings to servicing the machine in the field.
- Ability to make field modifications to prototypes independently or through instructions from design engineering group.
- Report accurate test observations, results, part failures, performance data, functional and reliability issues, and recommend/implement improvements.
- Assist engineering personnel in identification and resolution of potential safety hazards.
- Work side by side with farmers to validate machinery is meeting performance and reliability expectations.
- Experience troubleshooting including CAN-BUS systems, mechanical systems, and electrical systems.
Other
- Must be self-motivated and can travel extensively.
- Agricultural experience/background.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey test results, root cause analysis, new strategies, processes/approaches to a variety of internal audiences.
- Hybrid model from Hesston, KS
- We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
