Product Designer

About the role

Arconic is currently in search of a Product Designer to join our Kawneer Business in Alpharetta, GA. At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization. Job Summary: This position is responsible for all design aspects of new fenestration products which includes redesign and enhancements to existing products.

Responsibilities

• Key member of New Product Development team.
• Lead design efforts in the development and enhancement of fenestration systems.
• Collaborate with other Product Designers in their assigned projects.
• Develop conceptual designs, prototypes, and final product engineering documentation.
• Assist with the development of Technical Brief(s) to assure compliance to project definitions.
• Coordinate the engineering support documentation with the Drafting team.
• Collaborate with the Technical Authors and Illustrators in the development of technical literature documentation (Installation Instructions and other customer facing documentation).
• Good verbal communication skills (need to be able to communicate within the team).
• Create and generate engineering change orders.
• Collaborate with product manufacturing, procurement, and outside suppliers.
• Participate and oversee test unit installation and product testing (hands-on which could include but not limited to kneeling, squatting, reaching overhead, pushing, pulling, and lifting-up to 40lbs and using a ladder).
• Requirement to adhere to the company EHS policy.
• Expected overnight travel requirement 25 to 30% (this could be for several weeks).
• Collaborate with product manufacturing and institute Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles.
• Competency modeling in Inventor and drafting in AutoCAD.
• Experience creating new products based on market needs, systems design, and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work on projects with several unknown elements and different aspects of conceptual design.
• Capacity to analyze and develop solutions for technical problems.
• Ability to estimate the design effort for specific tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with other Designers, Drafters and Technical Authors.
• Ability to work based on industry engineering standards, company specific work instructions and department procedures.
• Proven design creativity record.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in engineering or architecture from an accredited institution or minimum 2 years of experience as a designer in the building/construction industry.
• Minimum 2 years experience working in product design.
• Minimum 2 years of working experience with 3D modeling in Invent