Product Development Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Execute against the category strategy in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Drive innovation and product improvements that keep products relevant and competitive within the marketplace.
• Lead these product changes from concept to commercial implementation.
• Provide technical evaluation of product, understand the accompanying process and necessary equipment, intellectual properties, and generate product costing and specifications for new product designs.
• Participate in cross-functional product teams. Assist in the development and qualification of new product features and upgrades with a focus on delivering project on schedule and within budget.
• Participate in product evaluations. Includes bench evaluation, product fit simulations and consumer testing.
• Prepares developmental machine trials to qualify new product concepts and materials. Work with business support teams to execute.
• Participates and presents in various meetings and forums.
• Controls, Owns, and Manages the Finished Product Specification and Raw Material Specification Systems.
• Works with material suppliers to understand new technologies and materials that are suitable and desirable in our finished products.
• Supports the sales and marketing functions with customer meetings and technical requests.
• Supports in all additional tasks as follows: Fulfill test requests from insights, product design and commercial teams. Coordinate the testing with quality department and/or conduct specialty tests. Deliver results on schedule, coordinate product repack, shipping, quality testing, product release, and data entry/analysis for consumers panel testing.

Required Qualifications

• 2-3 years’ experience in product development
• Technical Bachelor’s Degree (ME or ChE preferred)
• Demonstrated history of delivering/launching product development projects
• Knowledge of statistical techniques to make data-driven decisions
• Aptitude and ability to understand complex manufacturing processes
• Able to lead projects and utilize strong project management fundamentals/techniques
• Able to maintain multiple active projects/responsibilities at the same time
• Knowledge of data storage, data reporting, and data analysis
• Knowledge of quality control techniques
• Detail-oriented, ability to collect and organize data
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office

Preferred Qualifications/Professional Experiences/Years of Experience

• Experience using product evaluation methods including bench testing, fit modeling, and consumer testing
• Knowledge of raw materials used in the disposable personal care products
• Knowledge of disposable personal care products converting processes
• Knowledge of absorbent hygiene test methods and lab procedures
• Experience with project management software (MS project, SmartSheet)