R&D Lab Engineer (Appliance Testing Lab)

LG Electronics • Buffalo Grove, IL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

LG Electronics is a global technology leader committed to creating innovative solutions for a better life, embodying its brand promise 'Life's Good'. With a history spanning over six decades and a presence in over 290 locations, LG offers a diverse portfolio including Home Appliance Solutions, Media Entertainment Solutions, Vehicle Solutions, and Eco Solutions. Their management philosophy, 'Jeong-do Management,' emphasizes high ethical standards and transparency, guided by 'Customer-Value Creation' and 'People-Oriented Management.' LG fosters creativity, diversity, and integrity in an inclusive work environment. The company offers a crafted employee experience focused on professional growth, health and well-being, and an internal community designed for success. Colleagues are encouraged to take a creative and individual approach to challenges, with a strong emphasis on performance and skill, and equal, merit-based opportunities. LG supports employee growth through sure rewards for exceptional performance and industry-leading benefits. The R&D Lab Engineer will support new product development and testing goals in the Appliance testing laboratory, providing quantitative analysis and engineering results for new LG Home appliance products. This role requires a creative mindset with an aptitude in engineering and analytical studies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or related technical studies.
• Relevant professional experience is preferred but not required, such as experience in a Laboratory Environment.
• Ability to perform minor programming and software analysis to create forms and automatic calculation models preferred.
• High level knowledge of analytical and statistical methods preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide Engineering insight and improvement solutions for new product development.
• Screen and analyze new product performance to provide decisions for next steps.
• Statistically evaluate and interpret collected product data.
• Evaluate and analyze data collected from field research using a statistical approach.
• Review shortcomings and faults of current designs to pinpoint weaknesses and improvement points.
• Utilize CAD-based software and engineering analysis tools to design and prototype new improvements for existing products.
• Communicate with various R&D and factory laboratories to provide US usage-based engineering and design statistics.
• Create new LG internal testing protocols to benchmark LG NPI Products.
• Fully understand and interpret CR testing protocols to adapt for CR Benchmarking.
• Create and manage testing plans to accomplish responsibilities in a timely manner.
• Benchmark competitor products to understand advantages and disadvantages of each product.
• Explore new opportunities for improvement through research of new testing equipment, methods, and industry standards.
• Program new visual analysis tools to improve communication by eliminating excess and strengthening quantitative tools.
• Create automated data analysis systems to automatically calculate results from data sets to reduce invested manpower.
• Create custom reporting structures to improve the process from DAQ raw data to the reporting format.
• Research and provide verification for new actual usage protocol development.
• Create new testing methods based on VOC/FFR/Customer information against standard AHAM/DOE based testing methods.
• Run statistical analysis to determine the critical few from the trivial many for utility in protocol creation.
• Create and program automatically calculated testing protocol templates/layouts to raise efficiency for data analysis.
• Provide impact on DOE/AHAM/EPA standard rule making through expert input based on test results and consumer facts.
• Understand acquisition hardware/software to create acquisition models for lab purposes.
• Provide guidance to lab technicians to properly utilize available technical resources for proper testing.

Benefits

• No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits.
• Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options.
• Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.
• Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role).
• Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life.
• Personal fitness goal incentives.
• Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities.
• Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance.
• Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through our partner agencies (for Temporary/Contractors).

What This Job Offers

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