Product Engineer

Description

Responsible for the ongoing engineering and new product development for the product lines assigned, including determining the functional design characteristics necessary to assure safety, operational performance, maintainability, manufacturability, reliability, and cost levels required of the product line.

Essential Function:

• Develops and documents clear product designs for both new and existing product lines
• Develop and model designs in SolidWorks
• Produce initial production cost estimates and bills of material
• Produce manufacturing documentation, including but not limited to drawings with pertinent BOMs, and process instructions
• Self-manage multiple concurrent projects, being cognitive of critical path items and tasks to minimize development time, from inception to initial production
• Work with Production Team on shop floor to resolve production issues efficiently and effectively
• Provides descriptions of components, assemblies, and machines to production and inventory control.
• Performs any necessary mathematical analysis to determine proper design characteristics.
• Monitors the products performance and initiates changes as required to advance safety, performance, manufacturability, and improve profit.
• Provides technical assistance to sales and marketing, customer service, production, inventory control, manufacturing engineering, and engineering test/reliability departments.
• Provides technical consultation to other engineering personnel as required.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment with a strong mechanical background
• Proficient with SolidWorks CAD software is a must with a minimum of 5 years experience, good parametric modeling techniques, and bottoms-up design
• Proficient with basic measuring equipment and processes with the ability to reverse engineer parts and shapes
• Basic Knowledge of manufacturing processes/practices, machining, welding, sheet metal and shop tools
• Ability to design for manufacturability and serviceability, as well as think outside of the box to produce viable solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with Production Team and Vendors on new product design and production issue resolution
• Experience using Microsoft Office tools, excel, word, & PowerPoint

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Modeling with surfaces and sheet metal features in SolidWorks
• Knowledge in Welding processes, tooling & fixture design would be a big plus
• Some basic electronics experience wiring harnesses would be a plus
• Some experience in hydraulics and pneumatics

QUALIFICATIONS:

A Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent discipline is required. A broad understanding of machine structures, mechanisms, metal fabrication, and other manufacturing processes is required. An understanding of hydraulics, electronics or electrical systems, pneumatics, and machine controls may also be required depending on product line assignment. Strong proficiency in 3-D CAD utilizing SolidWorks is required.