What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Arconic?
Job Description
Arconic is currently in search of a Product Designer to join our Kawneer Business in Norcross, GA.
At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.
Job Summary:
This position is responsible for all design aspects of new fenestration products which includes redesign and enhancements to existing products.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
You have:
Arconic is currently in search of a Product Designer to join our Kawneer Business in Norcross, GA.
At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.
Job Summary:
This position is responsible for all design aspects of new fenestration products which includes redesign and enhancements to existing products.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Key member of New Product Development team.
- Lead design efforts in the development and enhancement of fenestration systems.
- Collaborate with other Product Designers in their assigned projects.
- Develop conceptual designs, prototypes, and final product engineering documentation.
- Assist with the development of Technical Brief(s) to assure compliance to project definitions.
- Coordinate the engineering support documentation with the Drafting team.
- Collaborate with the Technical Authors and Illustrators in the development of technical literature documentation (Installation Instructions and other customer facing documentation).
- Good verbal communication skills (need to be able to communicate within the team).
- Create and generate engineering change orders.
- Collaborate with product manufacturing, procurement, and outside suppliers.
- Participate and oversee test unit installation and product testing (hands-on which could include but not limited to kneeling, squatting, reaching overhead, pushing, pulling, and lifting-up to 40lbs and using a ladder). Requirement to adhere to the company EHS policy.
- Expected overnight travel requirement 25 to 30%. (This could be for several weeks).
- Collaborate with product manufacturing and institute Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles.
- Competency modeling in Inventor and drafting in AutoCAD.
- Experience creating new products based on market needs, systems design, and manufacturing processes.
- Ability to work on projects with several unknown elements and different aspects of conceptual design.
- Capacity to analyze and develop solutions for technical problems.
- Ability to estimate the design effort for specific tasks and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with other Designers, Drafters and Technical Authors.
- Knowledge of fenestration industry codes and standards.
- Ability to work based on industry engineering standards, company specific work instructions and department procedures.
- Proven design creativity record.
- Proficient knowledge of structural and thermal analysis of fenestration products.
You have:
- Associate degree in engineering or architecture from an accredited institution or minimum 2 years of experience as a designer in the building/construction industry.
- Experience in product design for the Fenestration Industry (windows, doors, curtain wall, storefront systems).
- Minimum 2 years of working experience with 3D modeling in Inventor and 2 years of experience with 2D drafting in AutoCAD.
- Experience with Autodesk Vault environment.
- Experience with MS Office suite.
- Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, structural or civil engineering or architecture.
- 3 years or more of experience in designing windows, doors, curtain wall or storefront systems.
- Knowledge of thermal simulations using Therm software.
- Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using Inventor or other software.
- Experience using Adobe Acrobat or BlueBeam.
Salary : $78,000 - $88,000
