Kennedy Valve-Product Design Engineer

Kennedy Valve•Elmira, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Engineer is responsible for providing engineering knowledge, support and maintaining all applicable data and systems relating to product specifications. This position requires continuous involvement in the areas of product development, testing, maintaining, and enhancing current designs. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a team environment interacting daily with sales personnel, engineering, and manufacturing. An equally important part of this role is the continuous and direct involvement with shop floor operations and the products manufactured by Kennedy Valve.

Requirements

Minimum of a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
Have extensive valve or mechanical construction experience.
Interpretation drawings including individual parts, assembly, customer site drawings and sketches.
Solid knowledge and experience in the use of CAD systems (3D modeling and 2D drawings).
Team player
Work in a fast-paced environment
Strong attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with reading plans and specifications is desired.

Responsibilities

On a routine basis, the engineer is required to work on the shop floor and with shop floor personnel, in various areas and includes assembling, testing, and painting products (production work).
This role also requires the use of hand and power tools to disassemble various products in order to ensure proper fit, form, function and retrieve and measurements needed to produce drawings.
Many products and assembled systems require 3rd party inspection, and it is the engineer’s role to assist in the assembly process and ensure that said systems meet the requirements, including specific types of testing (I.e. Holiday Free Paint).
Tasked in developing product drawings that are suitably geared toward and in line with current manufacturing processes and lean efforts.
Travel may be required for product related field issues and/or agency testing.

Benefits

Great wages
Robust benefits packages
Stability
Sense of team
Highly Competitive Salary $80,480-$99,416
Two weeks’ vacation, prorated for the first year of employment.
12 Paid Holidays and Paid Sick Leave
Retirement: 401(k) & Roth IRA – 100% match on first 2% of employee contribution, 50% match on next 2%
Educational Reimbursement after one year of service
Employer-paid life insurance with the option to supplement
Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental plan options