Equipment Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Supports Engineering teammates in the design and development of new equipment to be used by franchised dealers.
• Maintains current and legacy machine designs by releasing Engineering Change Orders that overcome component obsolescence and introduce design enhancements to existing equipment to ensure maximum uptime for franchised dealers.
• Utilizes advanced computer aided design tools such as AutoCAD and Creo to document machine design, track revision history, and product lifecycle management.
• Ensures standardization of mechanical designs and drawings is maintained throughout equipment lifecycle.
• Aware of new technology to keep equipment and processes technologically advanced and leading the industry in product quality, productivity, and energy efficiency.
• Plans, organizes, and controls small scale projects, responsible for meeting project deliverables on cost, schedule and functionality.
• Sets up consulting & communications by visiting manufacturing plants and commercial franchised dealers to study processes.
• Represents the company in contacts with outside suppliers of services and equipment.
• Serves as technical resource to the Technical Services Group and Equipment Assembly and provides on-site support when required.
• Maintains reference documents, technical work instructions and forms in the QMS system.
• Attends trade shows, technical seminars, and reads technical publications to keep abreast of the latest technology.
• Manages small scale dealer equipment development projects to meet time and budget commitments.
• Responsible for ongoing machine design support to overcome obsolescence, assembly issues, and incorporate required advancements in technology to ensure maximum uptime for franchised dealers manufacturing operations.
• Makes recommendations to Department Manager regarding appropriate goals for projects.
• Collaborates with the electrical engineering team, project engineering team and the process engineering team to make decisions regarding machine hardware and manufacturing processes.
• Collaborates outside of engineering required with Marketing, TSG, IT, Purchasing, Legal, Logistics, Finance, and Production Control.
• Willing to travel domestically support franchised dealer locations with technical issues and equipment installations.
• Willing to work extended hours as needed to achieve company goals.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”. For that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.