Job Description
Responsible for researching and developing ideas and processes for new applications products. Improves upon the performance and design of existing products and oversee production and packaging of final product. Experience in plastics is required and lighting preferred.
Key Measures
1. Program Management Milestone
2. Overall Customer Scorecards
3. Audit compliance scores; TS 16949 and internal
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Guidance is provided either by instruction received on specific assignment objectives or in the form of independently evaluating, selecting, and applying established and well-defined engineering techniques, procedures, policies or systems. Decisions involve limited risk to the organization. Assignments primarily involve entry through intermediate level work.
Functioning as a highly competent engineer, work requires independent evaluation, selection, and adaptation of standard company procedures and translation of technical guidance from higher level personnel into data applicable to the particular assignment. May be assisted by Level I quality engineer. Decisions involve moderate risk to the organization although results may have a long-lasting impact. Assignments primarily involve intermediate through advanced level work, moving toward complete technical competency and mastery of the field.
Work is complex, difficult in character and requires strong technical and broad business knowledge in addition to project management skills. Functioning with full competency/mastery of work area, exercises considerable latitude in determining specific project objectives and approaches to assignment. Decisions often involve substantial risk to the organization with potential for long-lasting results. It is expected at this level the engineer is involved in the mentoring and development of Level 1 and Level 2 engineers.
Leads product design and review activities by researching and benchmarking product designs. Ensures the timely, accurate, and successful translation of product design requirements into manufacturable product designs. Verifies and validates all product designs and design changes with appropriate engineering analysis and testing.
Plans, organizes, and directs technical work involving new and existing product design and development.
Leads new order acquisition and engineering change activities by establishing world class and manufacturable product designs that meet all internal and external customer requirements at the lowest cost. Verifies, and is responsible for, successful product development against internal and external standards via engineering analysis, prototyping, FMEA’s, benchmarking, and testing. Ensures manufacturability and optimization of product designs through design reviews, things gone wrong reviews, and design for manufacturability reviews. Ensures customer satisfaction by meeting deadlines, managing product changes, while optimizing product cost.
Develops product designs using technical tools in support of program objectives.
Releases and manages prototype and production product prints resulting from product development activities. Verifies success of product engineering with the use of engineering analysis tools including Finite Element Analysis, tolerance analysis, mold flow analysis, prototyping, metrology evaluation, designed experiments, and other available engineering analysis tools. Validates product designs by developing validation test plans, analyzing prototype builds, and successfully completing design qualification and production validation testing activities.
Documents all responsibilities and /or activities in order to maintain accurate records of project accountabilities.
Tracks, documents, and manages all product prints and bills of materials. Documents, organizes, and manages all engineering analysis, design development, design verification, and design validation outputs and deliverables.
Serves as a member of the Product Development Team by developing, validating, and managing new product designs and design changes.
Maintains liaison with individuals and units within and outside the company for specific assignments on product designs and design changes. Provides product design leadership and is the internal and external authority for all-new designs and design changes. Provides support for process engineering and quality engineering during manufacturing development and launch.
Monitors and controls objectives, costs, and timetables of product design and development.
Ensures that internal and external design development requirements are met relative to design goals, product cost, and delivery schedules. Manages all product designs, prints, bills of materials, engineering analysis’, prototyping, verification activities, and validation activities in terms of specifications, resources, timing, and costs per the program objectives.
Participates as a member of the Engineering Team.
Participates in ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies. Coordinates work to ensure best practices with all team members. Attends appropriate team meetings. As a member of the Engineering Team, fosters strong cohesiveness regarding all major issues; e.g., direction, annual plan, budget, policy changes, etc. Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas of lack of cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team in a supportive manner to resolve issues effecting cohesiveness. Actively look for ways, and reinforce actions needed, to achieve synergy possible within the larger organization.
Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives. This position description is intended to guide the activities of the Product Engineer.
It is not intended to limit the thinking and creativity of the person to the work of this function. Nor is it intended that this describe all the work that may be required of the person in this position.
Essential Competencies
In this section are listed the first filters of competency for the position; educational requirements, experience requirements, top 5 specific technical requirements, and the leader/member leadership expectations.
Company Description
With a focus on top-end quality and proactive planning that anticipates the needs of the market, Eypex creates the most innovative and unique lighting and magnetic fastening products in the automotive industry. To be sure, Eypex is "conquering roads not yet traveled.”
With a focus on top-end quality and proactive planning that anticipates the needs of the market, Eypex creates the most innovative and unique lighting and magnetic fastening products in the automotive industry. To be sure, Eypex is "conquering roads not yet traveled.”