Product Design Engineer

JOB PURPOSE or JOB DESCRIPTION:

Create and modify 3D product models within a comprehensive enterprise manufacturing system. Collaborate with Project Management, Design, Drafting and Engineering to ensure alignment with product specifications and customer expectations. Provide technical support to both customers and internal stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:           

• Assist Product Desing Engineering Technicians and in day-to-day tasks and validation of their work.
• Advanced designing of cabinet models.
• Update engineering system databases, incorporating product design changes to ensure processes meet product and quality specifications.
• SOP development for processes within the department, maintain standard prints and reference drawings for internal and vendor use.
• Ensure cabinet components, tops, hardware, and program databases that support product programming and design are updated with current and accurate information. 
• Test new cabinet configurations to ensure programming is functioning properly and quality specifications are met.
• Assign feature/option sets to product configurations.
• Work with Project Managers, Designers, and Drafters to ensure cabinet designs meet company standards and satisfy customer requirements.
• Collaborate with production staff and quality to investigate non-conformance issues and implement corrective actions to eliminate future occurrences.
• Maintain or create a bill of materials for standard or modified products, including creating part numbers for new items.
• Prioritize and organize work ensuring that tasks are successfully completed within defined timeframes and meet predetermined deadlines.
• Create, revise and maintain 3D models prints. reference drawings and logs for production, project work, product development drawings and R&D.
• ECR (Engineering Change Request) management.
• Work with Product Design Engineering Architects to ensure process or product changes are developed within the systems.
• Assist Product Development and R&D when needed to help conceptualize and prototype new ideas.
• Work with Procurement and outside vendors as needed for Product Development and R&D.
• Participate in project meetings and collaborate closely with others within the Engineering department.
• Provide technical guidance to other areas.
• Follow established design templates procedures and work instructions.
• Comply with industry design standards and drawing standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

None

 COMPETENCIES:

• Continuous Improvement: Actively seeks out and recommends improvements in their work processes, products, and services; demonstrates a proactive approach to identifying areas for optimization and consistently strives for higher quality results.

• Customer Focus: Continuously pays attention to customer (internal and/or external) needs and adapts as relationships evolve. A customer focus means being open-minded, responsive, agile, and driving innovation.
• Dependability and Self-Awareness: Consistently reliable in fulfilling commitments and responsibilities, including regularly reporting to work on time each day, while also having a clear understanding of their own strengths, weaknesses, emotions, and how their actions impact others, allowing them to adapt and make informed decisions based on their self-perception. 

• Manages Conflict: Demonstrates the ability to navigate disagreements and resolve conflict in a productive way by remaining calm, communicating in a way that doesn't attack or disparage others, allowing others to share their concerns without placing blame or putting words in their mouths, understanding others perspectives, listening to others' points of view, identifying underlying issues, acknowledging the view of all sides, and willing to work toward a common solution.
• Teamwork: Employee has been an integral part of the workforce and has acted in team efforts responsibly; works collaboratively with others toward a common goal gaining trust and respect from others.

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Technical Diploma or Associates Degree in Mechanical Design, Machine Tool/CNC, or programs utilizing CAD and/or CNC programming

Experience and/or Training:

• 5+ as a mechanical designer or a CNC Programmer

Licenses/Certificates: None

 Technology/Equipment:

• Familiarity with ERP/MRP system
• Proficiency with CAD/CAM Software
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or 5+ years of experience in manufacturing.

Experience and/or Training:

• 3+ years in an engineering role in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of mechanical design/engineering, bills of materials, routings, and manufacturing processes.

Licenses/Certificates:

• SolidWorks, Inventor, or 3D AutoCAD Certified

Technology/Equipment:

• Proficient in 3D AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks.
• Proficient working with ERP/MES (Enterprise Resource Planning/MES Manufacturing Execution Systems)
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite 

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS:

Sitting for long periods of time, 6-8 hours per day. Walking, speaking, hearing seeing. Listen and observe the environment for hazard prevention. Use hands for tools and typing. Semi-frequently lift up to 15 lbs. Some tasks may require the employee to bend, stoop, twist, and turn.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT:

Indoor office working environment. Office is temperature-controlled all year round. Minimal hazards identified.

EMPLOYER STATEMENT: 

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. The mental and physical requirements are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. This job description represents characteristics the individual may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position.