Engineer II-Design & Analysis

At Greene, Tweed, you'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success.

If you enjoy continuous learning and are excited about working with and creating technological solutions, explore career opportunities with Greene, Tweed.

Responsible for the interpretation of customer technical requirements enabling the selection, design and delivery of
products within the scope and capacity of Greene, Tweed (GT) materials and processes. This role will require integration
and partnership with customers, GT’s commercial team and operations staff. This position provides technical support by
responding to customer inquiries and material recommendation requests as well as serving as a technical resource in
Product Development activities. The role operates with limited supervision, relying on support from the functional team,
and executes work in accordance with business objectives, and engineering protocols and procedures.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
 Provides technical assistance to external customers, sales, manufacturing and quality, visiting customer sites when required, to ensure that the design needs of internal and external customers are met on a timely and effective basis.
 Recommends material based on application criteria in line with existing functional guidelines and reviews material specifications to determine alignment between GT and customer requirements.
 Generates and approves design proposals via Global Incremental Process and communicates alignments and/or misalignments with customer requirements based on our internal capabilities.
 Ensures model accuracy, design documentation, drafting standards alignment, and/or testing requirements are met when generating or approving drawings for production.
 Conducts moderately complex design analysis on components and/or assemblies that may extend current product/material/manufacturing capabilities and completes these work assignments utilizing engineering principles & functional protocols to generate the necessary documentation.
 Assures product quality by defining testing/qualification/validation methods aligned with application requirements; Clearly understands and communicates testing methods for finished- product and system capabilities to Central Engineering; Produces and approves external facing technical reports as needed.
 Has and maintains fundamental awareness of customer and industry technical requirements, and basic business acumen regarding the business impact of technical decisions.
 Supports the cross functional execution of established Corporate/Functional objectives and understands crossfunctional interdependencies, seeking out input from business functions' representatives and other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion.
 Generates Product Performance analysis reports/documentation of returned GT products in order to determine modes of failure and areas of improvement to be made, and to advise team members or customers on design changes and other product improvements that could be made.
 Dispositions finished product submitted to the Material Review Board using existing department procedures.
 Generates Work Instructions related to functionality of their department in alignment with industry standards and external customer requirements.
 Attend and participate in technical meetings and on committees, as requested, and where appropriate. Represent GT in order to apply suitable input and controls on materials and parts specifications to ensure GT’s best interests are maintained.
Note: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor. All requirements are subject to change and updates.

Required Minimum Qualifications
Education/Certifications: Bachelors of Science in Engineering or appropriate technical field

Skills and Experience:
 3-6 Years in Engineering or Design Environment
 Experience using 3D CAD software; knowledge of FEA systems Preferred
 Strong computer literacy, especially in MS Office
 Ability to work in cross-functional team environment
 Effective communication skills with internal and external customers
 Experience in Polymer, Plastics, Elastomer design/manufacturing preferred
 Basic understanding of Lean 6 Sigma Principles , White Belt preferred

Job Environment:
Physical Requirements:
Standing Occasionally (16-45%)
Sitting Frequently (46-100%)
Lifting Up to 10lbs without assistance
Carrying Up to 10lbs without assistance
Walking Rarely (0-15%)
Hearing Ability to detect noises with or without corrective device(s)
Vision Clarity of vision, with or without corrective lenses
Mental Requirements:
Problem Solving Frequently (46-100%)
Making Decisions Ability to make decisions that have a moderate impact
Supervise Rarely (0-15%)
Interpret Data Frequently (46-100%)
Organize Occasionally (16-45%)
Read/Write Frequently (46-100%)
Communication Frequently (46-100%)
Work Environment
High Temperatures Rarely (0-15%)
Low Temperatures Rarely (0-15%)
Noises Moderate (business office with computers, printers and light office noises)
Fumes Exposure Occasionally (16-45%)

Note:  This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor.  All requirements are subject to change and updates.