Product Development Engineer

Product Development Engineer

The Product Development Engineer is accountable for the design of rubber hose/hose assemblies so that they meet all customer and company specifications. This role will work closely with sales, application engineering, manufacturing, customers, and outside suppliers to ensure that the designs meet all specifications and are completed in time to meet all deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and improved products to meet customer or company specifications recommending the optimum process and equipment
• Maintain product, process, and material knowledge through coordination of sample builds, engineering analysis, and testing
• Enhance current products; specifications, validation procedures, and FMEA’s to reflect changing customer requirements to continuously improve product performance and product costs through design, processes, and material
• Investigate and develop specific actions on issues, problems, and opportunities as identified by production, quality, suppliers, or customers utilizing problem solving skills
• Coordinate and/or participate on assigned projects utilizing project management techniques and APQP processes
• Provide estimates, engineering analysis, and guidance in the process of cost estimating requests on improved or new products in order to capture new sales
• Develop and use IATF16949/QS9000/ ISO14001 procedures and workplace instructions to meet quality objectives set forth in the company Quality manual
• Maintain an awareness of industry trends, competitive activity, and technological advancements to provide sound advise to peers and other functional groups. Investigate competitive intellectual property. File disclosures on novel technology
• Create and maintain the engineering database in order to provide design standards/guidelines for future hose/hose assemblies to eliminate recurring problems and prevent new failures
• Aggressively push continuous improvement. Present personal development topics/ideas to the team and offer suggestions on how to better satisfy our internal and external customers

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Mechanical or Chemical
• 5 years’ experience working with rubber hose & related products
• OEM experience preferred
• Fluent in English is beneficial