Summary:
Responsible for the design and development of tools and equipment for use in the installation of plastic piping systems.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the mechanical design of plastic piping system installation tools and equipment
- Perform Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for applicable tooling and equipment.
- Perform Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
- Perform rapid prototyping and be hands-on with product testing.
- Understand and utilize DFM (Design for Manufacturing) principles to help ensure product designs are optimized for manufacturing capabilities and efficiencies.
- Create detailed product drawings using Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
- Create product bills of material and routings.
- Create and maintain tools and equipment user instructions.
- Oversee the product life cycle management of existing products Oversee the ECO (Engineering Change Order) process for responsible products.
- Participate in feasibility studies and costing estimates for new products.
- Be the project manager or contributing member of applicable new product development projects.
- Provide timely engineering support to Production, Product Management, Sales, Customers as required.
- Work closely with Product Management to review the existing product portfolio to identify and implement cost reduction and performance enhancement opportunities.
- Work closely with Product Management and Sales to understand customer pains and then provide effective solutions to address.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to understand and create complex plans or diagrams (e.g., blueprints)
- Self-starter/Acts on own initiative making decisions after a thorough evaluation.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across departments.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Light travel (both domestically and internationally) should be expected.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related technical field required.5+ years of tool and/or equipment design.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience using SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD software to develop product designs.
- Prior experience in piping system design and/or field experience with piping systems is desirable.
- Hydraulics experience is desirable.
- Electromechanical experience is desirable.
- Project management experience
Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:
- Primary work in a climate controlled office environment
- Eye/hand coordination for more than 50% of the time
- Visual strain for more than 50% of the time
- Listening, sitting, bending, standing, stooping, walking, observing, grasping, pushing, pulling, and keyboarding
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