Product Engineer

Crane Company•Marion, NC

About The Position

The Product Engineer focuses on innovation, development, and maintenance of product designs. Major new developments are a key responsibility of this position. A key job performance metric is revenue growth through new product sales. The product development engineer will shepherd new products from ideation through successful launch to the market place and will have full design responsibility throughout their life cycle. The position also has responsibility for maintenance of existing designs, including value engineering and design updates and corrections. Lead/Support quality improvement initiatives as per IATF 16949-2016 to achieve set sigma level for value stream. Guide production team on issue resolution using knowledge relevant to your department specialties.

Requirements

B.S in Engineering or related degree.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills used to communicate with vendors/customers, and internal reporting.
Product design and development expertise.
Strong project management skills.
Team player with strong individual initiative and decision making ability.
Manufacturing process development.

Nice To Haves

Minimum 5-7 years in manufacturing and product development experience.
Product design and development expertise.
Strong project management skills.
Working familiarity with Six Sigma tools, experimental design.
Plastics processing expertise, particularly with fluoropolymers.
Experience with machining, welding and metal forming.

Responsibilities

Product and process development related to the manufacture of fluoropolymer lined fluid handling components.
Hands on development work to include computer-aided design, prototyping, testing and optimization.
Act as technical lead on assigned new product development projects, which entails project management and reporting, in a cross functional team environment.
Understand industry and customer specifications and apply them in the product development process.
Interface with customers and suppliers to understand needs, develop applications, and discover opportunities.
Interface with existing and new vendors to specify optimized materials required in new and existing products.
Interface with Product, Process and Operational Excellence Engineers to develop innovative solutions to product design related problems.
Utilize collaborative design processes, including, but not limited to DFMEA, 3P and kaizen to enhance innovation and prevent problems.
Ensure adherence to Fluid handling Group NPD process, Resistoflex Engineering Change Control Procedure, and all ISO 9001 procedures as applicable.
Participate quality improvements as per IATF 16949 2016 ensure to complete toll gates for DFMEA, PFMEA, Control Plan, MSA, Process capability study for in house process.
Ensure requirements of relevant standards like ISO 9001-2015, PED 2014/68/EU, API Spec. Q1, API 6D, etc. are being consistently met and improved.