Engineer II (& Above), Product Owner - Freedom COE - American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)

The Product Owner is responsible for understanding the vision of Freedom from the point of view of the client, end users, and stakeholders; and driving feature/functionality enhancements in support of the product roadmap. Responsibilities will include interacting with the development team to ensure business requirements are understood and actionable by the scrum team, working with the quality assurance team to ensure thorough testing, and communicating with end users on the functionality of the software.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with a dynamic team of product owners, surveyors, engineers, software architects, and developers to collect and translate business requirements into user stories for the scrum team to implement
• Develop appropriately detailed user stories with acceptance criteria that are comprehensive and clearly understood by the scrum teams
• Provide day-to-day sprint support for the scrum team including bug prioritization and UAT of user stories.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to proactively manage and prioritize a backlog containing features, enhancements, and defects
• Coordinate communication between scrum team, product owners, Manager, and appropriate stakeholders regarding goals, requirements, and business needs.
• Serve as an SME support for help content, release notes, and documentation.
• As a member of the scrum team, ensure each iteration delivers working software.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Triage and evaluate product feedback collected from internal stakeholders and partner with the product owners and Manager to produce a holistic view of collected feedback from internal and external sources
• Assist Manager to define and manage stakeholder requirements as well as maintain alignment among key stakeholders.
• Assist Manager to develop business cases to justify new features, capital expenses to augment existing tools.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality service and maintenance of good relations with customers and coworkers
• Stay actively informed concerning technical, business and management developments affecting ABS and its customers, and communicate this information to management.
• Ensures all ABS Quality System requirements within the area of responsibility are met.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience

• BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of five (5) years of related engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of four (4) years of related engineering experience, or Ph.D. from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of two (2) years of related experience.
• Minimum of two (2) years actively working with ABS's engineering organization.
• Experience with PTC's Windchill and Creo.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• The knowledge and ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, concerning technical issues to laymen and experts. Candidate will be expected to communicate daily with team members, stakeholders, and end-users.
• Ability to learn quickly and provide innovative solutions is expected.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple assignments and address urgent requests.
• Understanding of systems engineering, simulation, PLM systems, software, and the agile software development process.
• Knowledge of marine and/or offshore industry is desired.
• Ability to obtain a working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management System.

Reporting Relationships:

Reports to a manager level position does not have direct reports.

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