R&D Lab Engineer (Appliance Testing Lab)

The Opportunity

We are currently seeking the newest innovator, R&D Lab Engineer, to join our dynamic HS (Home Solution) R&D Organization in our Buffalo Grove, IL office.

Principal duties and Responsibilities

• New LG NPI Product Development Support.
  • Provide Engineering insight and improvement solution for new product development
  • Screen and analyze new product performance provide decisions for next steps
  • Statistically evaluate and interpret collected product data
  • Evaluate and analyze data collected from field research using statistical approach
  • Review shortcomings and faults of current design to pinpoint weaknesses and improvement points
  • Utilizing CAD based software and engineering analysis tools, design and prototype new improvements for existing products
  • Communicate with various R&D and factory laboratories to provide US usage-based engineering and design statistics
• Performance Lab Functions
  • Create new LG internal testing protocols to benchmark LG NPI Products
  • Fully understand and interpret CR testing protocols to adapt for CR Benchmarking
  • Create and manage testing plans to accomplish responsibilities in a timely manner
  • Benchmark competitor products to understand advantages and disadvantages of each product
  • Explore new opportunities for improvement through research of new testing equipment, methods and industry standards
  • Program new visual analysis tools to improve communication by eliminating excess and strengthening quantitative tools
  • Create automated data analysis systems to automatically calculate results from data sets to reduce invested manpower
  • Create custom reporting structure to improve process from DAQ raw data to the reporting format
• Consumer Usage understanding and testing method creation support.
  • Research and provide verification for new actual usage protocol development
  • Create new testing methods based on the VOC/FFR/Customer information against standard AHAM/DOE based testing methods
  • Run statistical analysis to determine the critical few from the trivial many for utility in protocol creation
  • Create and program automatically calculated testing protocol templates/layouts to raise efficiency for data analysis
  • Provide impact on DOE/AHAM/EPA standard rule making through expert input based on test results and consumer facts
• High Level data acquisition and analysis.
  • Understand acquisition hardware/software to create acquisition models for lab purpose
  • Provide guidance to lab technicians to properly utilize available technical resources for proper testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related technical studies
• Relevant professional experience is preferred but not required, such as experience in a Laboratory Environment
• Ability to perform minor programming and software analysis to create forms and automatic calculation models preferred
• High level knowledge of analytical and statistical methods preferred