Product and Sales Engineer

Gaven Industries Inc•Saxonburg, PA

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About The Position

The Product & Sales Engineer plays a critical role in supporting Gaven Industries’ product development and customer-facing efforts by providing technical, design, and product engineering expertise to the Sales, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams. This role ensures that proposals, submittals, customer-driven product variations, and released product designs are supported with accurate, manufacturable, and producible solutions, bridging the gap between Sales, Engineering, and Production. The Product & Sales Engineer leverages deep product knowledge to adapt designs to customer requirements, lead and coordinate designers supporting product development, and ensure designs are effectively transitioned into production. This role places a strong emphasis on producibility, standardization, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma principles, and continuous improvement while maintaining alignment with Gaven’s performance and quality standards.

Requirements

Proficiency in Autodesk Suite: Inventor, Revit, and Vault.
Strong ability to communicate technical details clearly to both engineers and non-technical sales staff/customers.
Critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a focus on customer-driven design solutions.
Familiarity with BIM coordination and design submittal processes.
Strong collaboration skills to balance sales timelines with engineering and manufacturing requirements.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited school.
Minimum of 3–5 years of related experience in engineering, product design, manufacturing engineering, or technical sales support.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of shielding systems, mechanical design, or related engineered systems is beneficial.
Experience supporting product development from initial concept and customer requirements through detailed design and production release preferred.
Experience coordinating directly with Manufacturing and Production to support producible designs and resolve design-related manufacturing issues preferred.
Experience providing technical direction or leadership to designers or engineering personnel preferred.
Experience with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, DFMA, or continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
Experience supporting sales engineering activities, submittals, or customer-requested design modifications preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide technical and design support to the Sales team, including generating product concepts, technical drawings, and submittals in response to customer requests and project pursuits.
Lead and provide technical direction to engineering resources supporting product development, customer submittals, and production-ready designs.
Develop and maintain 3D models, 2D drawings, Bills of Material (BOMs), and technical submittals using Autodesk Inventor, Revit, and Vault.
Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure proposed and released designs meet customer requirements, performance standards, and manufacturing capabilities.
Lead product designs from concept through production release, ensuring solutions are technically compliant, manufacturable, repeatable, and appropriately documented.
Apply Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement principles to improve producibility, reduce waste and rework, simplify assembly, and improve product consistency.
Adapt existing Gaven products and solutions to meet unique customer needs while maintaining compliance with technical, manufacturing, and quality requirements.
Support Production during initial and ongoing builds by resolving design-related issues and incorporating manufacturing feedback and lessons learned into product improvements.
Develop and maintain standardized product configurations, design rules, drawing standards, and templates to improve consistency and streamline future Sales, Engineering, and Production activities.
Maintain configuration control and coordinate engineering changes, including impacts to drawings, BOMs, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and existing product configurations.
Participate in pre-sales design reviews and Stage Gate processes, providing input on technical feasibility, producibility, manufacturing readiness, cost, quality, and product alignment.
Perform additional duties as assigned to support the Engineering, Sales, and Manufacturing teams.