Senior Project Engineer

About the Role The Senior Project Engineer owns planning and execution for CNH's embedded controls software organization, working with multiple teams of engineers delivering parallel software releases for a single product line. This role sets the standard for how software programs are planned, tracked, and delivered within CNH, while operating within the company's agile framework. It also acts as a trusted partner to engineering leadership, driving improvements in capacity planning, risk management, and progress reporting. The role includes hardware logistics and test bench maintenance to keep the engineering organization productive day to day. What You'll Do

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the SAFe or Agile framework used across the team, including sprint planning, PI planning, and ceremony facilitation
• Develop and maintain integrated software release plans, schedules, and milestone tracking across multiple parallel releases within the product line
• Lead gate reviews and milestone sign-offs, ensuring deliverables meet entry and exit criteria before progressing
• Support resource planning with engineering leadership and capacity forecasting across teams, identifying staffing gaps and rebalancing workload as priorities shift
• Track program budgets and report cost performance to engineering leadership on a regular cadence
• Build and maintain Jira dashboards that surface software quality metrics, release health, and KPIs for the team and leadership
• Lead software quality improvement initiatives, applying lean and process improvement methodologies to remove waste and tighten cycle times
• Coordinate cross-functional activities with global engineering centers, suppliers, and other internal groups across multiple time zones
• Manage defect tracking and requirements traceability in Jira and Polarion, ensuring documentation is complete, current, and audit-ready
• Own hardware logistics for the team, including ordering. What We're Looking For
• Experience owning planning and execution for embedded controls software organizations
• Strong knowledge of SAFe or Agile frameworks and ceremony facilitation
• Experience developing integrated software release plans across multiple parallel releases
• Ability to lead gate reviews and milestone sign-offs
• Experience resource planning, capacity forecasting, staffing management
• Track program budgets and cost reporting
• Proficiency with Jira and Polarion for defect tracking and traceability
• Experience building dashboards to surface software quality metrics and KPIs
• Lean and process improvement methodologies to remove waste and tighten cycle times
• Coordination across global teams and time zones
• Hardware logistics and test bench maintenance