Designer I - The Toro Company

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About Us

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens to venues such as St Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in.

Responsibilities

• Create designs and design layouts for new product concepts, new products or improvements to existing products.
• Ensure engineering design for new products and improved products meet market, safety, quality, performance, reliability, durability, and regulatory requirements of the customer.
• Prepare design layouts and coordinate designs with others assigned to the project to ensure integration of the design.
• Responsible for design details such as design concepts, CAD modeling, layouts, material selection, preliminary FEA, and drawing reviews including GD&T.
• Secure assistance from consultants or internal specialists i.e. CAE analysis support engineers (CFD, FEA, NVH), manufacturing engineers, and vendor experts.
• Use the best technology available in all areas of design.
• Conduct team design reviews, safety reviews and cost and manufacturing reviews.
• Ensure that all parts designed can be manufactured (DFMA).
• Maintain accurate lists of parts created in CAD (Creo) and SAP.
• Coordinate or help to coordinate the release of parts for production whether for prototypes or final production.
• Work with Design Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Test Engineers and others to determine changes which are needed to meet customer requirements.
• Work with vendors to identify and select vendor supplied components to integrate into designs.
• Keep supervisor informed of project status and issues that may require assistance.
• Assist manufacturing/assembly during prototype, pilot, and production builds at plant locations.
• Prepare prototypes to ensure needs are met for sales, marketing, manuals, packaging, service, manufacturing and QC reference.
• Create and document potential patentable ideas.

Requirements

• BS/BA, Engineering related field.
• Designer I experience.
• Two-year degree: 3-5 years of experience.
• Four-year degree: 1-3 years of experience.
• CAD, SolidWorks.
• Manufacturing environment experience.
• MRP/ERP.
• Problem solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP.
• DFMA.
• Lean/ Continuous Improvement Experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and top tier medical/dental/vision plan.
• 401k.
• Dress for your day – casual, corporate environment.
• Onsite café serving breakfast and lunch, with attached Caribou Coffee.
• Complimentary use of onsite fitness facility.
• Mental health and financial health resources.
• 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community.
• Summer Hours – flexible schedule allowing employees to leave by noon on Friday.

Pay

The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. A reasonable estimate of the annual pay range is between $63,600.00 - $79,500.00. Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. You may be eligible to participate in an incentive program, which rewards employees based on individual and organizational performance.

Access to pay early with the dailypay app is available.