Position Overview: Reporting to the Product Development Engineering Manager, you'll lead projects from inception to launch, overseeing timelines, communications across teams, and overall project management.
Position Responsibilities:
- Prioritize safety as the top concern for all employees and customers.
- Collaborate with Project and Product Managers to define project scope.
- Conduct on-site assessments with the Product Manager to understand job requirements, identify current practices, and pinpoint unmet needs.
- Manage the intellectual property strategy from provisional to final patent.
- Utilize New Product Development (NPD) tools to identify critical-to-quality (CTQ) targets.
- Source internal and external resources for potential solutions that align with project goals.
- Guide potential solutions through the NPD stage gate process, refining towards the best concepts for commercialization.
- Design and conduct experiments to evaluate potential solutions' effectiveness.
- Ensure the selected solution is manufacturable for commercialization.
- Minimize solution costs while maximizing value and profitability.
- Conduct Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to optimize new product success.
- Collaborate with the Quality team to develop and implement QAQC processes.
- Work with Manufacturing Engineering to plan the transition to manufacturing.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Measure success through patents, bill of materials accuracy, and final design performance.
- Undertake other related tasks as assigned.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering.
- Preferably 2 or more years of product development experience.
- Proficient in Solid Modeling, preferably with SolidWorks.
- Experience in new product development.
- Hands-on aptitude, preferably in construction or mechanical fields.
- Familiarity with Stage Gate development processes.
- Strong PC skills, including the Microsoft Office suite.
- Exposure to Six Sigma Black Belt training or principles.
- Knowledge of applied statistics.
- Creative, resilient, and adept at problem-solving.
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of accountability.
- Commercially minded with a drive for project success.
- Team player with a willingness to learn and adapt.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
