Quench’s purpose is to impact people’s lives and improve the earth by helping to eliminate the 500 million plastic bottles consumed each year. We play a front-line role in the battle against single-use plastic water bottles by delivering on-demand filtered water solutions to more than 120,000 healthy and environmentally conscious customers across North America. Quench bottle-free water coolers, ice machines, sparkling water dispensers and coffee brewers purify the existing water supply, providing an endless supply of clean water and water-based beverages for a fixed monthly fee, typically under a long term bundled service and rental subscription agreement. Quench has grown from a small regional company to an international leader that had a successful NYSE public offering in 2016 and is now a strategic company owned by private equity backed Culligan. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Quench has more than 1,200 team members operating out of more than 90 locations across North America and Puerto Rico. For more information visit www.quenchwater.com.
About Culligan
Founded by Emmett Culligan in 1936, Culligan is a world leader in delivering superior water solutions that will make a real difference in improving the health and wellness of consumers. The company offers some of the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art water filtration and treatment products. These products include water softeners, drinking water systems, whole-house systems and solutions for businesses. Culligan’s network of franchise dealers is the largest in the world, with over 900 dealers in 90 countries. Many Culligan dealers have valuable equity in their local communities as multigenerational family owners of their franchises. For more information visit www.culligan.com.
Values: 5Cs
Culligan as One
Consumer’s come first
Commitment to Innovation
Courage to do what’s right
Consistently deliver exceptional results
We Offer:
Competitive base salary plus bonus opportunity
Tuition reimbursement
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Short- and long-term, supplemental, and company-paid life insurance
401(k) retirement savings plan
The Position
The Firmware Engineer will be entrusted with a pivotal role in spearheading the development and maintenance of several exciting projects for new IoT enabled devices in the Quench/Culligan family of products. You will play a critical role in helping to build and develop the firmware and ensure they are completed on time and within specified budgets. You will work closely with the design team as well as leaders and subject matter experts (SMEs) across the organization related to product development. Quench’s IT projects are aligned with the company’s overall strategic goals. You will work with stakeholders to understand requirements and carry out the project with a follow up to ensure projects have met the predicted value.
Responsibilities
Planning:
Establish and maintain processes for managing firmware throughout the product lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks
Lead Project Execution:
Lead projects from requirements definition concept through completion
Collaborate with functions and IT to problem solve solutions and ensure requirements meet overall business goals for the project
Identify schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation
Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget
Develop and manage action logs (RAID) and drive project cadence, ensuring activities are being completed as committed to enable critical path execution
Analyze project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule, or budget to ensure that project requirements can be met
Implementation and Change Management:
Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders, providing updates on project status and changes
Collaborate with functions to ensure process and technology elements are insync and aligned during change efforts, including training and support of new processes and tools
Identify issues and recommend changes to plans and mitigation strategies as needed
Work with project teams to facilitate and recommend change management methodologies
Work with architect to identify, evaluate, and manage software tools where necessary
Develop and coordinate post implementation support efforts to ensure efforts embed in the organization
Performance Monitoring, Spend visibility, and Reporting:
Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project performance and track progress against targets
Manage budgets for programs to ensure delivery on-time and in budget
Stakeholder Engagement:
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and align project activities with organizational goals
Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for project initiatives
Quality assurance:
Ensure adherence to best practices and IT department strategy and guiding principals
Implement ongoing quality control measures to ensure projects and solutions meet or exceed company goals
Risk Management:
Develop strategies to mitigate IT project risks ensuring business continuity and resilience
Requirements
Must have
Bachelor of electrical engineering (or equivalent with relevant industry experience)
Proven track record as a firmware designer
Experience and proven success in managing large, multi-stream projects, including systems related projects or tool implementation
Proficiency in Agile project management methodologies
Organization and time management skills
In-depth knowledge of programming best practices
Strong collaboration skills and commitment to multi-functional thinking – ability to work across teams to align on needs, trade-offs, and decisions
Initiative and Innovation with demonstrated track record of building programs from the ground up and finding creative solutions to challenges
Ability to develop and communicate plans and align teams on data-driven decisions
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Must be:
6 years of experience in embedded firmware design
Experience in development of firmware architecture for new code bases
Proven experience of firmware development in both system level and PCBA test systems
Be able to write clean, structured and well documented embedded C firmware
Be able to be given a specification and translate into a well-defined firmware state machine
Be able to write clear technical documentation: Requirement/design specifications, test plans etc
Experience in writing low level protocol drivers: e.g. UART, SPI, I2C
Worked with 16bit, 32bit microcontrollers
Worked on Microchip and ST microcontrollers
Be able to work with tortoise SVN version control systems
Basic understanding of low-level electronics
Good communicator and a fast learner of new concepts
Can work well in a fast-paced team environment
Highly motivated, collaborative, and innovative
Analytical and strategic thinking with a results-oriented mindset
Resilient and high energy to drive to answers, working cross-functionally as needed
Extremely strong communicator (verbal and written) and adept at developing relationships across diverse teams
Comfortable with shared accountability for outcomes associated with efforts
Strong problem solver
An effective time manager based on value-driven prioritization
Honest, humble, integrity-driven in all facets of the role, owning and learning from mistakes
Preferred experience:
Experience in writing C/C++ DLL’s
Experience with RTOS (eg FreeRTOS)
Worked with and/or written microcontroller bootloaders with encryption
Worked with embedded graphic libraries
Worked with the microchip Harmony framework
Experience in IoT (e.g. Wi-Fi, LoRaWAN, Zigbee)
Experience in iOS, Android or Windows software development is favorable
Experience with developing test systems with NI LabVIEW
Experience developing using the SCRUM framework
Participated in FMEA design activities
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Retail Office Equipment
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