Job Details
Title: Product Design Engineer
Job Summary:
The Product Design Engineer is a member of the Product design Team. This position serves as a technical liaison, working closely with customers; sales department and manufacturing departments to understand customer requirements in order develop products from concept through final design and manufacture.
Supervisory Responsibilities: None Duties/Responsibilities:
The product design engineer is responsible for the following areas:
- Meets with sales department and customers to understand product requirements and manufacturing goals.
- Works with research and manufacturing departments to ensure product requirements are achievable and realistic with respect to manufacturability.
- Understands and implements required analysis to determine product performance characteristics.
- Utilizes and understands cad software, standard file transfer tools and drawing practices.
- Works to develop product concept models, which are to be used as discussion tools to ensure customer goals, are satisfied.
- Develops final product design models and drawing packages for the design of manufacturing tooling.
- Work with other Engineering teams to quote protype or production parts and processes.
- Contribute to the prototype and release to production process including:
- Process development
- Assisting in and overseeing the assembly and testing of prototype parts
Additional Responsibilities:
Performs additional design tasks as required by NPI Team such as:
- Creates models and drawings for misc. parts or assemblies and drawing changes.
- Develops shadowgraph charts for the inspection of manufactured parts and assemblies.
- Analyzes contact (beam) designs with respect to design, or material changes.
- Performs drawing translation of incoming and outgoing drawing formats from and to customers or vendors.
- ECR/ECN Support for new and existing products.
- Participate in Root Cause Analysis studies as needed.
- Perform failure mode analysis as needed.
- Design fixtures and gages for prototype parts as needed.
- Other tasks as required.
Required Skills/Abilities :
- Knowledge of and ability to apply engineering principals and modern manufacturing techniques.
- Knowledge of the properties and strength of materials.
- Proven ability to utilize Creo cad software or equivalent.
- Knowledge of ISO and QS quality systems.
- Knowledge of ability to apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.
- Ability to express oneself clearly and effectively in oral and written form.
Education and Experience :
- 4-year degree in engineering, or closely related field.
- 3-5 years experience in directly related field.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting or standing.
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
- Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization s facilities.