Job Description

Job Description

** Airxcel** is a market leading supplier of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and appliance products serving worldwide specialty markets. Our employees find opportunity to express creativity and innovation, enhance education and be a productive team member in a supportive work environment.

** Suburban** is a division of Airxcel and has been in business since 1947. We design, manufacture, and market appliances for the RV industry and we are a market leader for every product line that we produce.

Job Location: Dayton, Tennessee

Summary

The Product Engineer is responsible for leading the design and development of all Suburban products and accessories. Creates, or directs the creation with CAD Designers, CAD models, layouts, assemblies, drawings and is responsible for maintaining engineering documentation. Leads and contributes to cross functional teams and manages projects to meet customer or business needs. Provides mechanical leadership to ensure integration of form, function and manufacturability. Directs and supports the qualification testing and transition to production. Mentors peers and team members.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Designs and engineers products, in a team effort with suppliers, manufacturing, quality, service, marketing and finance to meet or exceed customer expectations for features, performance, quality, reliability and cost.
2. Leads failure analysis efforts to identify root cause, establishes contingency plans to support short-term production, quality and customer requirements and works with other functional groups to define, develop and implement corrective action in a timely manner.
3. Creates electronic CAD models, layouts, assemblies and drawings as required.
4. Prepares and processes engineering change documentation.
5. Manages engineering projects that either create new, improve or modify a product to meet a specific customer or business need. Develops schedules, cost estimates and provides regular project updates to management.
6. Proactively identifies opportunities for product, process and operational improvements within the Engineering Group.
7. Works closely with Manufacturing during pre-production builds to minimize cost, improve DFM and improve total product quality.

Qualifications Education and Experience

1. BS Engineering or related scientific degree with an emphasis in mechanical engineering, mechanical design. * 5-10 years minimum experience in designing Mechanical assemblies and sub-assemblies with proven ability to take a design from concept through production.
2. 5-10 or more years experience with CAD, preferably SolidWorks.
3. Ability to lead a cross functional team in the development of new products, lead the team thru a phase-gate system, and develop and maintain the program Gantt chart.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong product development experience, including design, prototype, test, product launch and support.
• Strong understanding and experience in product life cycle management utilizing an automated change management system.
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing and assembly processes (i.e. sheet metal, injection molding, blow molding, stamping, forming, welding, etc.).
• In depth knowledge of mechanism design, life testing and production support, including assembly fixturing and gauging.
• Ability to work within detailed procedures but able to make decisions based on organizational policy and/or precedent.
• Skilled at following daily set priorities; however expected to evaluate and respond to new situations requiring immediate attention.
• Knowledge of inspection equipment and processes including, surface plates, height stands, optical comparators, CMM, etc.
• Experience working with Quality and Materials functions to improve supplier part quality and process capability.
• Understanding of regulatory agency requirements, including AGA, UL, ETL, CSA, etc.
• Working knowledge of MS Office software.

NOTE: This is a sampling of the requirement/duties and is not intended as an all-inclusive listing.

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