Title: Product Design Engineer Job Summary: The Product Design Engineer is a member of the Product Design Team. This position serves as a technical liaison, working closely with customers; sales department and manufacturing departments to understand customer requirements in order develop products from concept through final design and manufacture. Supervisory Responsibilities: None Duties/Responsibilities: The product design engineer is responsible for the following areas: • Meets with sales department and customers to understand product requirements and manufacturing goals. • Works with research and manufacturing departments to ensure product requirements are achievable and realistic with respect to manufacturability. • Understands and implements required analysis to determine product performance characteristics. • Utilizes and understands cad software, standard file transfer tools and drawing practices. • Works to develop product concept models, which are to be used as discussion tools to ensure customer goals, are satisfied. • Develops final product design models and drawing packages for the design of manufacturing tooling. • Work with other Engineering teams to quote protype or production parts and processes. • Contribute to the prototype and release to production process including: • Process development • Assisting in and overseeing the assembly and testing of prototype parts • Develop quality documentation • Process Validations • Development of inspection routines and measurement methods • Part Inspection Additional Responsibilities: Performs additional design tasks as required by NPI Team such as: • Creates models and drawings for misc. parts or assemblies and drawing changes. • Develops shadowgraph charts for the inspection of manufactured parts and assemblies. • Analyzes contact (beam) designs with respect to design, or material changes. • Performs drawing translation of incoming and outgoing drawing formats from and to customers or vendors. • ECR/ECN Support for new and existing products. • Participate in Root Cause Analysis studies as needed. • Perform failure mode analysis as needed. • Design fixtures and gages for prototype parts as needed. • Other tasks as required. Required Skills/Abilities: • Knowledge of and ability to apply engineering principals and modern manufacturing techniques. • Knowledge of the properties and strength of materials. • Proven ability to utilize Creo cad software or equivalent. • Knowledge of ISO and QS quality systems. • Knowledge of ability to apply geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. • Ability to express oneself clearly and effectively in oral and written form. Education and Experience: • 4-year degree in engineering, or closely related field. • 3-5 years’ experience in directly related field. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Physical Requirements: • Prolonged periods of sitting or standing. • Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times. • Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.