Project Engineer - NPD

Duties

• Maintains an awareness of competitor products and the general business climate in personal care appliance industry
• Manages project flow involving regular contact with manufacturing and other cross functional staff members
• Maintains adherence to all procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow
• Responsible for the design, manufacturability, cost, tooling, performance and quality specifications, corrective action/revisions of a product while developing and maintaining a production schedule
• Assists and works with others required to bring a project to successful completion
• Establishes, reviews, checks, revises drawings, write-ups, routers and specifications to support the design of new products
• Conducts and evaluates electrical, quality, performance, safety and reliability testing of product design on prototypes and finished product
• Establishes bill of material, oversees construction of working and visual models and schedules/facilitates design review/production release meetings to ensure design feasibility and production scheduling
• Works with manufacturing and quality to develop required fixtures and gauges
• Tracks project schedule to ensure adherence to timeline

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Chemical Engineering
• 6 years experience in electro-mechanical design or mechanical design engineering or product engineering
• 5 years experience in Electro-mechanical Design or Mechanical Design
• 5 years experience using design tools (e.g., FMEA, stack ups, FEA)
• 5 years experience in consumer electronics and / or home appliances industry
• 5 years experience with engineering materials and manufacturing process associated with plastics, metal stamping, motor and machining manufacturability
• 2 years experience with project management of precision electro-mechanical products or machinery from concept through production
• 2 years experience using simulation tools
• 2 years experience with 3-D modeling
• 2 years experience with cutting elements

Pay

$105,000–110,000 per year

Schedule

40 hours per week

Location: 2900 Locust St, Sterling, IL 61081