Product Design Engineer

Toyo Tires•White, GA

About The Position

Join us in shaping the future. As a Technical Product Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, applying your deep understanding of tire manufacturing, construction, and performance to drive excellence from concept to production. You’ll play a pivotal role in launching new tire lines, refining existing specifications, and solving complex engineering challenges to ensure our products meet the highest standards. This is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the road ahead by improving performance, enhancing safety, and supporting a team that values precision and progress.

Requirements

Engineering degree from an accredited four-year college or university preferably in Mechanical AND one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Create and issue experimental tire building specifications or check experimental tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
Conduct controlled experimental tire builds, verifying component accuracy and placement, confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
Perform cured tire analysis of experimental tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
Understand tire testing methods and each individual tire test and its parameters.
Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
Create and issue initial production tire building specifications or check initial production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
Verify initial production component accuracy and placement; confirm cured tire appearance meet required standards and coordinate confirmation testing.
Review factory processing of the initial production tires (green scrap, cured scrap, cured anomalies, and uniformity levels).
Perform cured tire analysis of initial production tire sections to ensure dimensional accuracy.
Analyze test tire sections and understand test tire failure modes and how each failure mode correlates to real world conditions.
Create and issue mass production tire building specifications or check mass production tire building specifications issued by another Tire Design Engineer.
Create and maintain project schedules with the goal of meeting or exceeding project schedules.
Coordinate experimental and initial production tire builds.
Coordinate experimental and initial production testing.
Perform competitor tire analysis using Smithers Scientific Data and / or through tire section analysis.
Work with Material Design Engineers to introduce new materials and / or material suppliers for existing materials to the plant through material evaluation programs.
Write and issue reports and procedures when necessary.
Effectively present information in meetings to peers and management when necessary.
Effectively communicate orally or in writing when necessary.
Maintain existing specifications and support plant production departments when necessary.