Product Engineer - HD Home

Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: The Product Engineer is a business partner to merchandising team managing and supporting private brands engineering projects. The engineer will partner with internal teams to complete product requirement development, and resolution of product performance concerns for assigned product categories. The engineer will also utilize Bill of Materials as well as internal tools and data to understand raw material, manufacturing, labor, logistics, business and all total cost involved in manufacturing and shipping product. The engineer is responsible for conducting engineering evaluations to determine component and complete product assembly costs for Home Depot Products. Having good business acumen and financial knowledge of key terms will aid the engineer in relating the information to the Merchant community in a constructive and collaborative manner. The engineer works in a team environment as an individual contributor.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in cross-functional team environment
• Ability to use standard hand tools and lab equipment such as technical measuring equipment, power tools and pneumatic tools.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated manufacturing knowledge in areas such as plastics, metals, glass, wood, textiles and Printed Circuit boards

Nice To Haves

• Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent in a field of study related to the job
• Masters of Business Administration
• Product costing experience
• Extensive understanding of Bills of Materials
• Knowledge of Merchandising Financial terms
• Knowledge of INCO shipping terms
• Experience working in a manufacturing and/or product development environment including design for reduced Manufacturing and Assembly costs
• Experience working with OEM suppliers through the product development cycle
• Experience working with vertically integrated manufacturers
• Business acumen and understanding of Merchandising
• Ability to use costing software such as Boothroyd Dewhurst DFM/DFMA

Responsibilities

• Engineering project management including product requirement development, and test protocol development
• Conduct financial and value based calculations, summarize the findings for the business in presentation quality format and communicate findings to key stakeholders
• Complete resolution of product performance concerns
• Provide general product Engineering guidance and knowledge or evaluations as required to deliver short term business goals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level