Product Engineer, Engineering & Innovations

Tiffany & Co. • New York, NY

1d • $77,010 - $85,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Tiffany & Co. is hiring a Product Engineer for its Jewelry Design and Innovation Workshop (JDIW), located on East 23rd Street in New York City. The role supports Jewelry Design and Innovation with the technical and data elements of new product development, including collecting, validating, analyzing, applying, and archiving product data. The position works with Design, Product Development, Manufacturing, Strategic Sourcing, Jewelry Supply Planning, and other corporate teams to support a unified and sustainable new product development process.

The Product Engineer helps develop and review prototypes, maintain product documentation and project data, coordinate milestone and inventory updates, and support project planning and costing. The role also researches innovative processes, manufacturing techniques, and tooling to improve throughput, reduce scrap and rework, and improve product quality. Employees are expected to follow workplace safety policies and support safer processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.
• At least 2 years of related experience.
• CAD skills.
• Experience with a document management system, such as Adept.
• Knowledge of GD&T and basic measuring skills.
• Ability to understand, communicate, and create technical manufacturing documentation, including reading bills of material and routes and relating them to drawings.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Project.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Nice To Haves

• Minitab or equivalent skills.
• JDE or equivalent enterprise resource planning software.

Responsibilities

• Complete assigned new-product development projects under the guidance of New Product Engineers, including maintaining Critical Requirement documentation, defining prototype material needs and ordering milestones, updating development timelines and status, and executing test plans.
• Coordinate timely prototype execution with cross-functional teams and in accordance with systems and procedures.
• Review prototypes against Critical Requirement documentation and meet service-level agreements and product-development timelines.
• Assist with evaluating, designing, and building prototypes and processes, ensuring alignment among requirements, prototypes, CAD models and drawings, and manufacturing requirements.
• Expedite the transfer and pickup of prototypes and components.
• Measure, collect, analyze, present, and communicate data and comparative documents supporting design, prototype fabrication, and transition to manufacturing.
• Maintain product data and project requirements, including part-number setup, bills of material and routes, cost, product specifications, and work instructions, in accordance with SOPs and best practices.
• Create and maintain project folders containing product documentation, such as requirements, CAD models and drawings, cost estimates, purchase requisitions, work instructions, testing and time studies, quality evaluations, reference documents, and prototype transfers.
• Support accurate collection and reporting of department metrics by promptly documenting relevant activities.
• Generate, maintain, track, close, and report project work orders, including material adjustments, location transfers, inventory reconciliation, and final disposition.
• Track and maintain CER and expense billing and files.
• Maintain milestone documents for weekly meetings and promptly update product status documents and reports.
• Communicate inventory scarcity, shortage, and excess issues.
• Facilitate new-product planning meetings, including agendas, recaps, and follow-up actions.
• Maintain project document repositories and ensure they are complete at project close.
• Develop and communicate rapid costing scenarios for design concepts and production should-cost estimates for prototypes, identifying primary cost drivers.
• Track work-order movement and product costs.
• Follow organizational safety policies and practices, improve the safety of current and developing processes, and reinforce safe behavior while giving immediate, specific, constructive feedback about unsafe behavior.
• Research and develop innovative processes, manufacturing techniques, and tooling during design, concept, and prototyping to improve throughput, reduce scrap and rework, and improve product quality.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for eligible employees, including adoption and surrogacy assistance and parental leave.
• Programs supporting mental, emotional, physical, and financial well-being.
• Competitive pay.
• Medical insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• 401(k) plans with company match.
• Paid time off.

What This Job Offers

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