Product Development Engineer

As the North American headquarters for G-TEKT Corporation, Jefferson Industries actively participates in the Global Automotive Industry. As part of our involvement, Jefferson Industries Corporation offers design and development for press dies and other tools necessary to produce automotive products. We embrace programs for product development including product design review and Advanced Product Quality Planning. Our facilities support high quality product manufacturing, and we provide a timely and flexible approach to meeting the needs of our customers.

We are actively seeking a Product Development Engineer to join our Sales and Development team on 1st  (core schedule, Monday - Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm)

Position Summary:  This position is responsible for applying all countermeasures for defects that may occur during mass production to customer drawings. At the same time, it is necessary to fulfill customer requirements, increase satisfaction and build good relationships.

Primary Position Responsibilities:

• Research and analyze customer design proposals and specifications to determine design manufacturing feasibility.
• Extract manufacturability concerns from 2D/3D product drawings, create countermeasure requests and proposals to customers, and eliminate all concerns by die GO.
• Thorough understanding and application of internal and customer engineering standards (G-TEKT Engineering Standards (GES), JIC Engineering standard, and HES).
• Determine optimal countermeasure shape through forming CAE result analysis and create countermeasure shape using CATIA V5/3DExperience
• Extract welding concerns from welding process plan, welding gun data, GES, etc. and create countermeasure shapes.
• Verify other possible problems during mass production and eliminate concerns
• Collaborate with all related departments and J-group plants to solve problems and improve business
• Collect past problem history (PPH) from plants and apply countermeasures to product drawings and die design
• Report the project status to managers and seek consultation/judgment as necessary
• Fulfill customer requirements and build/maintain good relationships.
• Assist with weld layout and part setting order to make efficient mass production processes.
• Lead or participate in assigned projects.
• Target a 100% safety rate for E0-1 evaluation in the drawings.

Secondary (Backup) Position Responsibilities:

• Maintain open lines of communication with team members and partners
• Reply to customer requests with good tactics to balance customer satisfaction and company benefit.

• Additional duties as assigned.
  • Example: Create CAD data to be utilized by simulation group. Manage customer drawing data.

JIC associates are eligible for a comprehensive and competitive compensation and benefits package, including:

Compensation:

• Weekly Pay
• Holiday Pay
• Shutdown Pay
  • Summer - around July 4th holiday
  • Winter - around Christmas/New Year's holiday
• Bi-annual TEAM Achievement Bonus
• Annual Profit Share Bonus

Benefits:

• Paid vacation
• Three (3) medical options to allow you the flexibility to choose what level of coverage best fits you and your family's needs
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical and dependent care)
• Free Dental & Vision (must be enrolled in medical benefit)
• Voluntary Supplemental 
  • Life Insurance
  • Hospital Indemnity
  • Group Accident
  • Critical Illness
• Company-paid
  • Short-term Disability
  • Long-term Disability
  • Basic Life & AD&D
    • Employee coverage - 2 times annual base earnings
    • Spouse - flat $10,000
    • Child - flat up to $5,000
• 401k Retirement
  • Traditional Contribution
  • ROTH Contribution
  • Company Match
• 401k Retirement Profit Share
  • Funded 100% by Company based on a percentage of eligible earnings each quarter
  • Eligible regardless of participation in 401K Retirement
• Referral Bonus
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety Equipment Reimbursement (safety boots & prescription safety glasses)
• Company-paid uniforms, including laundering
• Tickets@Work - web-based discount program (hotels, car rental, tickets, etc.)

Qualifications: This position requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and knowledge of CATIA is preferred but AutoCAD (or similar) is acceptable.

Essential Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to do root cause analysis on complex issues
• Must be detail oriented
• Able to plan and meet short and long-term deadlines
• Able to communicate cross functionally with all company divisions
• Customer / supplier negotiation experience
• Knowledge of modern welding and stamping processes, equipment, fixtures & tools
• New model development experience
• Problem tracking and documentation
• Time management
• Maintain an attendance record which reflects positively on position
• Experience with Microsoft Office
• Experience with CATIA V5 and 3DExperience

Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Experience with coding (preferably CATScript and Microsoft VBA) is helpful but not required

Supervisory Responsibility:   None

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands & work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be subject to significant standing, walking, bending, twisting, exposure to high noise levels (protection provided) & data entry.

• Work environment: This job is performed in an office with occasional observations of manufacturing assembly lines.

• This job is contingent upon the results of your background check and drug test.