Product Development Engineer

About the role

The Product Development Engineer (PDE) is a manufacturing expert responsible for interpreting engineering prints and developing the process flow to ensure the product is made correctly and all requirements are met. PDEs are the focal point of the pre-production Integrated Product Team (IPT).

Responsibilities

• Review new product drawings and models.
• Create planning flow for new products (determine method of manufacturing, sequence of operations, MCD and tool needs, in-process inspection requirements, etc.).
• Create Manufacturing Control models and Drawings (MCD's).
• Reverse engineer product models and drawings to generate increasingly regressive manufacturing forms, all the way back to stock material.
• Review manufacturing routers for correctness and completeness.
• Create tool orders.
• Review and approve tool designs for accuracy and correctness.
• Create visual work instructions for new products.
• Perform or be accountable for manufacturing simulations (e.g., forming simulation, layup simulations, etc.), as required.
• Organize and run Manufacturing Readiness Reviews and drive outstanding actions to completion.
• Review & disposition rejection reports, including root cause and corrective action.
• Estimate time, tooling, and operations/methods for spares quotations & new program proposals.
• Help develop or update standards/documentation based on lessons learned.
• Help guide/train members of the IPT or more junior PDEs as required.
• Adhere to the principles of APQP and AS9100.
• Follow all company policies and processes.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline, plus a minimum of 4 years of experience in a similar aerospace manufacturing environment and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading IPTs in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with the calculation of manufacturing tolerance budgets.
• Experience with a wide variety of metal fabrication and processing equipment and methods including, but not limited to: Water jet, laser cutter, shear press, punch press, break press, drill press, manual and CNC lathes and mills, spin former, hydraulic press, and drop hammer Fusion, resistance, laser, and EB welding.
• Brazing and plating are a plus.
• Experience with chemical processing, such as pickling, etching, passivating, etc.
• Experience with thermal processing (heat treating, annealing, stress relieving, etc.).
• Experience with processing stainless steels, nickel alloys, titanium alloys, aluminum alloys using these methods.

Skills

• Must be highly skilled in Catia v5, and specifically the FTA workbench.
• Must be an expert in the interpretation and application of GD&T per ASME Y14.5-2018 (or 2009). Certification is a plus.
• Must be proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel.
• Experience with manufacturing simulation software is a plus.

Benefits

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Pay

Annual Target Salary = $115,000.00

Schedule

N/A