Custom Design Engineer

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Evaluate custom applications and determine the necessary modifications of standard Skyline products to solve the application.
• Utilize CAD to review the exhibit design and determine the details required for the custom application.
• Evaluate complex custom applications and design a non-Skyline solution to include metal fabrication, wood fabrication, and outsourced materials. Inventing a new product is often necessary.
• Utilize CAD to create the solutions for custom applications and to communicate the designs to our customers and to production.
• Review custom applications with production departments and/or custom estimators to confirm feasibility.
• Identify structural concerns and develop a solution.
• Affiliate with others with structural reviews of exhibits.
• Communicate with sales reps, dealer office administrators, and Project Estimators regarding questions and solutions on estimate requests.
• Support sales, marketing, customer service, and production departments by researching and providing answers to product-related questions when necessary.
• Review the custom items cost and determine the wholesale price by applying the appropriate markup.
• Research any outsourced materials/products needed to create the solution and include them in the bill of materials with cost and vendor details.
• Determine packaging for custom elements if required.
• Determine the weight of the custom product.
• Provide sketches and custom product details to CAD for product drawings.
• Review and approve drawings, prints, and programs used to create the custom product.
• Create cost analysis and lead time for large quantity custom products and the part numbers required for ordering.
• Affiliate with Manufacturing Engineering with a production plan for large quantity custom products.
• Identify structural concerns and resolve them for DIY and Solutions teams.
• Perform center of gravity and tip angle calculations to determine the structural integrity of exhibit designs.
• Provide Skyline reviewed structural approvals for stable exhibit designs.
• Utilize vendor resources to provide Professional Engineer reviewed approvals for exhibit designs.
• Main resource for communications with vendors in the Vendor Alliance Program including the pricing and availability of the vendors’ products and services.

Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Analytical and mathematical skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes/environment.
• Organization and time management skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/requests.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and with others in a team environment.

Minimum Education/Certification

• 4 year engineering degree.

Minimum Experience

• 1 year experience with CAD software.
• Vendor research or outsourcing experience preferred.
• 1 year of product design experience.
• Strong computer skills to include Word, Excel, and Visual Manufacturing system or similar MRP application.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Position is sedentary in nature, occasional standing and bending throughout the day.