Product Development Engineer II
Position Summary
The hose product engineering team is responsible for the design, development, and performance testing of hoses used in hydraulic, industrial, fluid transfer, and automotive applications. In this role there will be opportunities to work with a diverse product offering spanning multiple applications and markets with the guidance of more senior product development engineers. The right candidate will become a member of an experienced team, executing projects globally to drive expansion of the fluid power business.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Direct work responsibilities will include:
- Execute tasks and projects with a global team to fully implement optimization proposals
- Product BOM management
- Creation of lab orders for product testing
- Analyzing product test results
- Organizing and monitoring builds of test materials
- Benchmarking of products in industry
- Experimentation to enhance product design
- Foresight analysis
- Interaction with a cross-functional global teams (including operations, quality, material development, process engineering, commercial, etc.)
- Must be able to quickly learn to apply core engineering and six sigma skills such as problem solving, SPC data collection and analysis, FMEA, DOE, etc.
- Limited travel may be required (0-15%), potentially including international travel
Requirements and Preferred Skills
- 2 to 4 years of engineering experience
- 1+ year of experience with fluid power product engineering
- Bachelor’s Degree in STEM discipline or EIT certification with engineering work experience required
- Background with functional application of engineering techniques listed in essential duties and responsibilities is preferred
- Must be able to independently manage time and task execution needs
- Ability to interpret and apply mathematical and statistical models and information
- Experience and confidence in face-to-face, phone, video call, and email communications
- Ability to work with a global cross-functional team, as well as team members from other areas of the organization including those in other nations
- Computer applications including spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, and timeline projection (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Power point)
- Ability to adapt to rapid changes and new systems as needed
PAY & BENEFITS
- Full-Time
- Salary: $76,000 - $85,000
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance and other voluntary benefit options: benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following your date of hire
- Eligible for 3 weeks of paid vacation + 11 holidays (9 scheduled & 2 floating) + 8 sick days. All vacation days are accrued
- 401(k): 3% company contribution and additional 3% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement
WHY GATES?
Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Gates is an Equal Opportunity and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other consideration defined by law.