Current Products Mechanical Engineer

The Current Products Mechanical Engineer will be responsible for maintaining current product lines and will proactively monitor product reviews and feedback from sales, customer service, marketing and executive teams to identify product quality/cost/usability improvements. This person will develop product improvement concepts, conduct feasibility studies, coordinate validation testing on new and modified designs. They will also support production increases by evaluating and qualifying capacity tooling. This candidate has the ability to use state-of-the-art CAD and analysis tools to create mechanical designs, primarily consisting of injection-molded plastic, extruded parts, and accessory components, from initial concepts through prototyping and into high volume production. This person works closely with internal and/or external partners to generate all necessary documentation and test plans to ensure that products meet specification. Lastly they will monitor feedback from customers to identify, correct production quality problems and interact directly with Asian manufacturing facilities and travel to Asia will be required. Ensure product features achieve cost, schedule, reliability, and regulatory/safety goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage tooling for all products after initial product release.
• Work with forecasting and purchasing teams to develop and approve capacity tooling as required.
• Monitor product quality metrics, identify and implement product improvements across the supply chain.
• Engage with factories to resolve issues identified in incoming quality inspections.
• Provide regular feedback to the rest of the product team to make sure that product learnings are incorporated into new products under development.
• Participates in mechanical engineering evaluation and test to validate the robustness and proper performance of new products.
• Utilizes best-in-class tools to develop innovative mechanical solutions to highly complex problems.
• Protect company intellectual property through design and patent application processes.

 Required Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience in mechanical and/or product design development
• Proficient in 3D CAD modeling/design.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of materials properties and fabrication processes.  Strong preference given to experience with injection molding.
• Working understanding of principals of reliability testing, design of experiments, materials and process.
• Experience with Asia OEM partners and manufacturing suppliers preferred. Travel to global manufacturing sites will be necessary.

Desired Qualifications:

• Consumer goods experience
• Specific experience in SolidWorks