Product Engineer (Entry Level)

Position Summary

Achieving company cost and customer service objectives by ensuring timely and efficient completion of design responsibilities for a product.

Scope/ Supervision and Interaction:

Interface with customers, Parker Sales, Product Managers, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Quality. Perform design responsibilities as assigned by Management with minimal supervision.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare organized and detailed information on design calculations, stress analysis, and product descriptions for standards and special products.
• Prepare and/or participate in the preparation, checking and releasing of design layouts, and detail drawings.
• Coordinate lab testing as it relates to the product being designed. Initiate, evaluate, and analyze results of test programs on assigned projects.
• Design product utilizing CAD, customer proposal drawings, customer design intent information, and design concept drawings.
• Support Engineering, Marketing, Estimating, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Technical Service, Customer Service and Quality as required.
• Apply analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.), as required.
• Review and approve literature and technical information for assigned products, as required.
• Apply lean principles to all processes.
• Must continuously maintain the highest degree of customer service, throughput, quality, cost reduction and people productivity.
• Must have exceptional organizational and communication skills.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in mechanical or other relevant engineering field required.
• 2-4 years of experience with engineering activities.
• Prior experience in Automotive/Assembly plant is a plus.
• Skilled in the use of CAD software such as AutoCAD, Pro-Engineer and/or other similar and relevant applications.
• Able to interpret technical catalogs.
• Computer literate in Windows environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to plan, organize and administer multiple development tasks concurrently.
• Background in analysis methods (Value Analysis, Design of Experiments, FEA, SPC, FMEA, etc.) a plus.
• Computer Aided Design experience with 3D modeling a plus.
• Should be familiar with lean manufacturing tools and APQP.
• May require travel to customers.

The above description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to describe the general nature of the position.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at or @parkerhannifin.

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