Product Engineer

Summary: Responsible for engineering aspects of products released to production after initial design development, including design of special order and customized products, maintenance and minor additions to existing products.

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.

• Give advice, analyze information and provide technical guidance within a specific function for others within the organization, including Marketing, Applications, Manufacturing, and Purchasing.

• Design modifications to standard products for specific customer needs, to an acceptable quality, performance, safety, and cost standard.

• Support product/development testing and design activities in support of engineering objectives.\

• Assist in designing components and test fixtures as required in testing and qualification of new concepts or supplier components.

• Assist in using manufacturing techniques such as lean manufacturing 5S, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping to improve productivity.

• Assist in various Cost Improvement Goals, proposing new ideas and initiating cost reduction and product improvement effort to increase overall value of product.

• Provide timely resolution of field service problems using sound engineering judgment.

• Take on project management responsibilities and work on business process improvement projects.

• Keep current on product and component technology improvements and industry trends to effectively perform functions of the position.

• Investigate engineering/manufacturing issues related to assembly of product and take corrective action to prevent recurrence of problems.

• Develop tools to measure, monitor, and improve product bill of material accuracy and product throughput in the plant.

• Maintain agency and regulatory approval status (UL, CRN, ASME, KHK, CE, etc.)

• Maintain product documentation to assure engineering documentation, drafting documentation, and product are consistent.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (Technical, Scientific, Engineering) plus 3-4 years of related experience or eqivalent combination of expereince and education.

• Requires in-depth knowledge of principles and practices of engineering, preferably in the HVAC industry.

• PC skills including Microsoft office applications. Basic skills with CAD applications, a plus. Strong organizational, interpersonal and communications skills.