What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Technician - Kimball International, Jasper, IN position at Kimball International?
Role Description
Responsible for assisting product engineers in developing and maintaining our products using the engineering change process.
Responsibilities
Skills to Perform This Role:
Responsible for assisting product engineers in developing and maintaining our products using the engineering change process.
Responsibilities
- Prepare as-designed bills of materials based on engineering designs
- Input bills of materials in SAP
- Use engineering change workflows
- Assist in investigating change requests and upon approval updating the engineering documents
- Investigate utilizing existing parts, tooling and/or manufacturing platforms
- Update engineering data in our production and inventory control system
- Update engineering data in our product data management system
- Follow engineering standards to enable common ownership of engineering documents
- Complete engineering change request investigations and add them to the product data management system
- Participate in value engineering events with cross functional teams
- Use engineering judgment to ensure new products are safe to use and safe to manufacture
- Support our Vision and Guiding Principles
- Demonstrate safe / responsible behavior, and a positive performance record (including attendance)
Skills to Perform This Role:
- Honest and ethical
- Team oriented
- Positive attitude
- Tactful
- Assertive
- Flexible
- Patient
- Creative thinking
- Trustworthy
- Good People Skills
- Willingness to learn new things
- Ability to keep humor in the workplace
- Ability to build and sustain relationships
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that is goal driven (completion dates)
- Good listening skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate technical issues
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Good organizational skills
- Good team building skills
- Must have initiative
- Respect for others point of view
- Good time management skills
- Understanding of our business goals
- Can prioritize multiple tasks appropriately to meet business needs
- Understanding of sound engineering practices
- Understanding of manufacturing and tooling processes
- Understanding of BIFMA, UL and other technical standards
- Knowledgeable of commercial furnishings industry
- PC literate and fluent with Microsoft office programs
- Understanding of quality fundamentals
- Understanding of the engineering change process
- Knowledge of various materials including steel, aluminum, plastic, composites, wood, additive manufacturing and their common use applications
- Ability to develop bills of materials for input into our production and inventory control system
