Product Engineer

POSITION TITLE:  

​​Product Engineer 

​​POSITION SUMMARY: The Product Engineer is responsible for the overall design and layout of the current product line and for ensuring that the products perform correctly and follow industry and safety standards. Create and maintain product BOMs to ensure that finished products are constructed correctly and supplied with the correct components. Provide technical help and information to other departments as well as customers. 

        ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 

• Calculates optimum spring and hardware combinations for all door configurations. 

• Design track and spring line layouts for custom applications.  

• Provide CAD drawings of door clearances and track layouts to architects and builders. 

• Create BOMs for new door configurations and correct existing BOMs. 

• Approve new components or materials to be used in constructing our product and its installation. 

• Evaluate current and new products to ensure that they meet or exceed DASMA standards. 

• Design custom door layouts based on customer requests. 

• Provide support to customer service as it relates to technical or product issues. 

• Maintain/create CAD drawings of vendor-supplied components and approve/monitor tolerances. 

• Provide technical support to the sales department and evaluate custom requests for approval. 

• Conduct wind load testing on specific models/sizes and specify specifications. 

• Other duties may be assigned. 

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Required: 

• Associate’s degree in mechanical engineering or design degree.   

• Knowledge of industry and market trends. 

• 3-5 years 

• Good analytical and design skills. 

• Proficiency in CAD software and drafting practices. 

• Previous work experience in a mechanical field. 

• Quality-Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness. 

• Preferred: 

• AutoCAD 

• Excel 

• ERP Software 

COMPETENCIES:     

Customer Focus 

• Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer loyalty, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures customer commitments are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, and responds to internal customers. 

Communicates Effectively 

• Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, and has good listening skills. 

Decision-Making/Judgment 

• Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses the root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others. 

Quality 

• Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds the root cause of quality problems, and owns/acts on quality problems. 

Vision & Values 

Supports values and daily actions and decisions, communicates vision and values to others, generates enthusiasm, and incorporates vision when planning. 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this position successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or listen. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers and handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to ​10​ pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.  

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

Work is performed in a fast-paced office setting with frequent interruptions. Duties may require sitting for long periods of time. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. 

OTHER:  

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship.