What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineer, New Product Development position at CHICAGO MAGNESIUM CASTING CO?
Description
Summary:
Focused on the overall success of new product development and product design, strategy and forward-planning. Technical expert responsible for ensuring efficient and profitable product launches and on-going efficiency gains. Will collaborate with manufacturing to manage design specifications and process changes.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage products through all phases of New Product Development process including establishing critical paths, collaborating with departments and suppliers and meeting quality guidelines and customer requirements
- Collaborate with customers and suppliers to continuously improve speed and effectiveness in delivering profitable new product and manufacturing solutions
- Accountable to ensure new product meet cost and manufacturing requirements as well as supports the company commitment to producing top quality products
- New equipment evaluation/implementation to support new product development and manufacturing process improvement
- Work with multiple groups, including quality engineers, quality systems, leadership team, planners to assure quality and on-time delivery to our customers
- Integration of Lean techniques into the engineering and operations area
- Maintain and organize detailed records of development activities including prototypes, data, reports and changes to design requirements
- Prepare and implement written procedures and specifications related to new products or new processes
- Evaluate, analyze, and make recommendations on products, designs, and cost improvements to improve the competitive position of the company
- Evaluate robustness of new designs to variations in the manufacturing process; maximize yield by reducing product’s sensitivity to process variation
- Utilize Magma software to create computer-aided design; experiment with and analyze different materials, manufacturing processes, design tolerances and factors in the manufacture process
Benefit information is listed on the company website.
Requirements
Education and Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, strongly preferred
- 3 years’ experience in product engineering or engineering intern role, preferred
- Multi-disciplinary engineering and operations skill set, preferred
- New product development experience, preferred
- Project Management skills preferred
- Strong technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, BOM structure and change control processes
- Knowledge of PPAP, Process FMEA’s, product and process validation for manufacturing and implementation of execution plans
- Effective communicator with the ability to interface at all levels within the organization
- Self-motivated drive to help the team improve through people, process and technology
- Capability to accurately and efficiently work on multiple projects within strict deadlines
- Strong problem-solving skills, identify errors and deficiencies; able to think critically
- Proficient computer skills
KEY COMPETENCIES:
- Listening
- Conflict Management
- Drive for Results/Action Oriented
- Time Management/Personal Organization
- Negotiating
- Timely Decision Making
- Priority Setting
- Learning on the Fly
- Problem Solving
- Customer Focus
- Functional/Technical Skills
Salary : $75,000 - $90,000
