Traeger-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Salt Lake City, UT
501-1,000 employees
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

Traeger is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our APRD team, based in Salt Lake City, UT. In this role you will be responsible for developing innovative engineering solutions during the advanced development phase, ensuring a seamless transition into the product execution team. You will play a crucial role in creating discrete technology solutions that align with Traeger's product roadmap, driving the company's innovation forward. As part of this responsibility, you will conceive, design, and prototype/fabricate products to visually demonstrate the design and engineering intent, providing tangible examples that clearly communicate the envisioned outcomes. Following the prototyping phase, the engineer will generate detailed technical documentation, ensuring that all executable information is accurately and comprehensively communicated to the appropriate teams for successful implementation. This role demands a high level of organization, creativity, attention to detail, and extensive engineering knowledge to consistently launch innovative features and products. The individual must be adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining meticulous records, and ensuring that all engineering solutions meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. Additionally, you will engage in collaborative activities with cross-functional teams, fostering a cooperative environment that encourages the sharing of ideas and expertise.

  • Transfer consumer insights and Design Research into consumer desired features and products that provide the Product Management team a product innovation pipeline that delivers a best-in-class consumer experience.
  • Work closely with outside suppliers to deliver prototypes on time and at cost that are aligned to the team's quality expectations.
  • Lead the technical mechanical engineering of advanced development staged projects to successful transfer into the execution teams.
  • Create robust 3D CAD/CAS model parts and assemblies that communicate design intent, function, and manufacturability.
  • Create and manage 2D engineering drawings that meet industry standards.
  • Perform engineering analysis on but not limited to mechanical statics and dynamics problems, mechanisms, FEA, CFD, concept selection, cost, and material selection.
  • Design and perform experimentation for early validation and verification of focused designs and full product concepts.
  • Provide design input for DFM and DFA during product development to ensure adherence to functional, aesthetic and regulatory requirements.
  • Review manufacturing feasibility analysis for new features and categories.
  • Work with tooling engineers and suppliers to ensure manufacturing feasibility.
  • Work with and manage fabrication/prototype suppliers to produce prototypes.
  • Work with the internal, domestic, and international team, as well as 3rd party vendors.
  • Manage a portfolio of projects as part of the Innovation Category Business Team and to ensure projects are on time, on budget, and meet performance requirements.
  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering
  • 5-10 years of experience in the field or in a related area
  • Disciplined and data driven problem solving
  • Successful experience with Design for Cost and Design for Manufacture in consumer products
  • Ability to analyze and process data to reach and communicate data based recommendations
  • Experience with durable product development using a stage gate process
  • Interaction with overseas resources and ability to travel overseas is a must
  • Strong knowledge of PC based data acquisition
  • Initiative, and a wide degree of creativity is required
  • Highly self-motivated and self-directed with the ability to work with teams cross functionally
  • Must be knowledgeable and able, to design for a variety of manufacturing processes
  • Must have proven experience developing and designing products
  • Ability to create low and high-fidelity prototypes in a shop environment that includes hand and high power machine tools.
  • Have advanced CAD solid modeling, surface modeling, and sheet metal skills in SolidWorks
  • Ability to communicate ideas verbally and through sketches and mock ups
  • Sound knowledge and application experience of engineering principles including but not limited to thermodynamics and mechanics
  • Demonstrable interest and skill in the field of product design
  • Full medical/dental/vision packages to fit your needs
  • 401K to help you plan for the future
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Individual professional development programs & initiatives to help you grow professionally
  • Great discounts on all things Traeger
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