Product Engineering – Lead System Integrator
About The Position
Delta Faucet Company is seeking a Systems Integration Showering Engineer to join its New Product Development and Integration team. The role leads large projects with autonomy and coordinates international teams to integrate innovative showering products into production. The engineer partners with cross-functional colleagues to deliver product launches and reports directly to the NPD Engineering Manager. The position leads the design coordination, development, and integration of showering products for luxury, trade, and retail consumers. It oversees components and modules from design through first article, engineering builds, pilot runs, and PPAP; manages system requirements and technical risks; and leads technical execution, issue resolution, and production integration from concept to launch. The engineer also collaborates with overseas engineering and manufacturing teams and other internal functions, and travels up to 10% within the United States and internationally.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering Technology.
- At least 7 years of product engineering experience specializing in showering products.
- Product engineering practitioner experience and expertise in engineering tools, techniques, and standard methodologies for showering products.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with and influence business and technical partners and leaders at all organizational levels.
- Excellent analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including the ability to simplify complex problems.
- Ability to lead multiple concurrent assignments.
- Experience with design for manufacturability, cost estimation, GD&T, Systems DFMEA, PPAP, and design verification and validation.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with rapid prototyping and manufacturing processes, including injection molding, die casting, stamping, finishing, and assembly.
Responsibilities
- Lead design coordination, development, and integration of new showering products for luxury, trade, and retail consumer needs.
- Lead components and modules through design, first article, engineering builds, pilot runs, and PPAP.
- Collaborate daily with overseas Delta engineering, vendor design, and vendor manufacturing teams.
- Maintain working knowledge of the competitive patent and product space for showering products.
- Manage product and system requirements, specifications, and flow-down requirements for modules and components.
- Lead technical resources, requirements development, and design risk assessment using DFC design standards and specifications, APQP methodologies, and NPD launch stage-gate processes.
- Establish and validate system-level product requirements using test plans, simulation, and prototyping.
- Own technical execution of new platforms and technologies as a domain expert.
- Lead technical issue-resolution teams and identify and implement root causes outside NPD projects.
- Scope, handle, and approve technical tradeoffs to deliver production-integration requirements from concept to launch.
- Design, build, and execute test plans, and present results and the impact of technical issues to diverse groups.
- Collaborate with Product Marketing, Architecture, Compliance, and Subsystem teams during new-product development.
- Travel up to 10% within the United States and internationally.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit plans.
- Retirement and savings programs.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee incentive programs.
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- LinkedIn Learning access.
- Internal opportunities to work on projects across the company.
- Paid volunteer day annually.
- Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
