Senior Product Engineer

JTEKT North America•Greenville, SC

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

JTEKT North America is a global leader in engineering and manufacturing automotive systems, bearing solutions, and high performance machine tools. The Senior Product Engineer will be responsible for designing new or applying existing bearing designs to meet customer application and product requirements. This role supports the development, validation testing, and launch of new bearing designs, as well as designing and developing new product extensions. The engineer will also identify and drive initiatives to continuously improve engineering design standards, efficiency, product performance, manufacturability, and profitability. Additionally, the position provides engineering support to manufacturing, sales, and customers for existing production designs.

Requirements

BS in Mechanical Engineering
At least 3 years experience in engineering field
Demonstrated ability in mechanical aptitude
Demonstrated ability in written and verbal communication skills; internally and with customers
Demonstrated ability in computer and CAD skills
Demonstrated ability in project planning and execution
Demonstrated ability in problem solving techniques
Demonstrated ability in team skills
Motivated, self-starter

Nice To Haves

Automotive or bearings industry experience
DFMEA/PFMEA process experience
SolidWorks experience
FEA experience
Failure analysis experience
Product testing experience
Familiarity/training in formalized problem-solving methodologies (Red X, DOE etc)

Responsibilities

Independent evaluation, selection and application of appropriate Koyo engineering standards to create bearing designs that meet customer application and product requirements.
Analyze customer’s application requirements to define product requirements.
Produce drawings and specifications for manufacturing and customer agreement.
Perform all engineering analysis and testing required to validate designs.
Interface with manufacturing to ensure design for manufacturability and continuously improve alignment between product design and process capabilities.
Lead/execute engineering continuous improvement and product development projects in support of product line and/or corporate objectives.
Provide failure analysis, root cause analysis and problem solving of internal testing or customer application field issues.
Provide engineering support for root cause analysis and problem solving of manufacturing quality issues.
Create or modify design and engineering standards based on lessons learned or product advancements.
Recommend and develop new technology or new uses of technology (Intellectual Property).
Develop computer competency to successfully complete design tasks utilizing standard calculations, automated design programs, 3D modeling (CAD), FEA and other analysis tools.