Product Design Engineer

Job Summary:

The Product Design Engineer is a member of the Product Design Team. This position serves as a technical liaison, working closely with customers; sales department and manufacturing departments to understand customer requirements in order develop products from concept through final design and manufacture.

The product design engineer is responsible for the following areas:

• Meets with sales department and customers to understand product requirements and manufacturing goals.
• Works with research and manufacturing departments to ensure product requirements are achievable and realistic with respect to manufacturability.
• Understands and implements required analysis to determine product performance characteristics.
• Utilizes and understands cad software, standard file transfer tools and drawing practices.
• Works to develop product concept models, which are to be used as discussion tools to ensure customer goals, are satisfied.
• Develops final product design models and drawing packages for the design of manufacturing tooling.
• Work with other Engineering teams to quote protype or production parts and processes.
• Contribute to the prototype and release to production process including:
  • Process development
  • Assisting in and overseeing the assembly and testing of prototype parts
  • Develop quality documentation
  • Process Validations
  • Development of inspection routines and measurement methods
  • Part Inspection 

 Additional Responsibilities:

Performs additional design tasks as required by NPI Team such as:

• Creates models and drawings for misc. parts or assemblies and drawing changes.
• Develops shadowgraph charts for the inspection of manufactured parts and assemblies.
• Analyzes contact (beam) designs with respect to design, or material changes.
• Performs drawing translation of incoming and outgoing drawing formats from and to customers or vendors.
• ECR/ECN Support for new and existing products.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis studies as needed.
• Perform failure mode analysis as needed.
• Design fixtures and gages for prototype parts as needed.
• Other tasks as required.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of and ability to apply engineering principals and modern manufacturing techniques.
• Knowledge of the properties and strength of materials.
• Proven ability to utilize Creo cad software or equivalent.
• Knowledge of ISO and QS quality systems.
• Knowledge of ability to apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
• Ability to express oneself clearly and effectively in oral and written form.

Education and Experience:

• 4-year degree in engineering, or closely related field.
• 3-5 years’ experience in directly related field.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting or standing. 
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.