R&D Product Development Engineer

What You'll Love About This Job

Hybrid | Metrics-Driven Engineering Opportunity | New Product Development | Bonus Package | Exemplary 401(k)

This is Energizer Holdings, Inc.

Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization - we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

Position Summary

Energizer is looking for a New Product Development Engineer to join our Battery Innovation Capabilities team to lead innovation process development projects, with a focus on data visualization, metrics, and analytics. Metrics-driven engineering is a data-driven approach to product development that involves collecting, monitoring, and analysing engineering data and metrics to make informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Update and bring visibility to R&D data, including metrics that track our operational performance
• Monitor best practices in the related field and make recommendations for continuous improvement
• Analyze data and draw supportable conclusions leading to next steps
• Apply statistical methods
• Lead and support process development initiatives
• Prepare reports and presentations documenting work and progress
• Leverage data analytics methodologies, tools, and technologies to support initiatives that drive continuous improvement in innovation processes
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain dashboards and tools that visualize data and help uncover trends, root causes and insights; translating that data into recommendations that drive positive business outcomes
• Partner across R&D and with cross functional teams to integrate data driven insights into business initiatives, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals and R&D product development roadmaps to enhance decision making and operational efficiency
• Stay informed of industry trends and best practices to support continuous improvement
• Summarize and present presentations and reports to communicate progress and business results
  
  

What we are looking for

• Bachelors in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline
• 2-4 years experience in a product development environment or metrics-driven engineering role
• Proven metrics-driven engineering data experience to draw conclusions and determine strategies
• Ability to apply fundamental engineering and scientific principles to familiar and new situations
• Strong analytical skills, result oriented, proactive, and able to work both independently and on teams
• Eagerness to take a hands on approach to learning or identifying problems
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  
  

What we prefer

• Familiarity with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Azure, and Python
• Design of experiments (DOE) experience
• Proven experience in applying successive levels of quantitative and analytical fields (e.g. Statistics, ML/AI, Modeling, etc.) with an ability to analyze complex, high volume data from various sources to highlight previously unknown patterns and relationships
• Modeling and simulation experience
• Experience in product commercialization and project management
• Strong statistical skills (Statistical Modeling) and experience with Minitab (or equivalent)
• Statistical process control (SPC) and manufacturing quality control (Infinity QS)
  
  

Come join us!

Energizer is an equal opportunity employer, and we prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.