Senior Product Engineer

Clopay • Mason, OH

8d • $100,000 - $130,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Clopay Corporation, we are more than just North America’s largest residential and commercial garage door manufacturer—we are a powerhouse of innovation, safety, and design. Through our premier brands, we lead the industry in providing groundbreaking high-performance closure solutions for both the places people call home and the spaces where the world does business.
Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, and operating state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Troy, Ohio, Russia, Ohio, Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, and Goodyear, Arizona, we are a proud American-owned company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Our reach extends across 55+ distribution centers and thousands of retail locations in the U.S. and Canada ensuring that we deliver the right door for every opening – from homes to businesses and beyond. By joining our team, you become part of a legacy that blends the residential elegance of Clopay, known as "America’s Favorite Garage Doors," with the industrial strength and 180-year heritage of our rolling brands, Cornell and Cookson. Together, we secure everything from family garages to the world's most iconic stadiums and skyscrapers.
We currently have an opening for a Senior Product Engineer in our Mason, Ohio location.
Summary:
Design, plan, test, communicate, and implement product engineering projects. Concentrate on the current product line, including specification maintenance, product design improvements, product approval, customer technical support, special applications, product education, and shop floor information.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology.
• Engineer with minimum eight years’ experience in the garage door industry or ten years of other product engineering experience, with exposure to various types of manufacturing processes.
• Heavily involved in product design and specifications.
• Must be able to use common computer packages, including 3-D CAD, spreadsheet, word processing, and capital expenditure programs.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) license preferred.

Responsibilities

• Resolve product related issues, including product design, feature enhancements, value engineering, installation, and applications. Works closely with Marketing, Sales, Production, Quality, and Manufacturing Engineering, and purchasing.
• Implement strategic, multiple-plant, assigned product engineering projects via the engineering change process procedure. Completes other product engineering projects as assigned. Lead design engineer on projects with capital expenditures of over $1,000,000.
• Initiate and implement product improvement and cost reduction ideas.
• Implement product changes and specification changes in a timely manner in conjunction with other functional areas throughout Clopay. Troubleshoot production problems directly related to engineering specifications and bills of material.
• Create detailed engineering analysis based on testing, experience, scientific theory, and engineering principles for use in the design and application of the product line or new product line extensions.
• Communicate product specifications and product changes to internal customers and help in communications to external customers. Use the Engineering Release/Notice procedure as the primary tool in accomplishing this task and direct communications with external customers as required.
• Train and educate various internal and external customers on product offerings and product specifications. Internal customers include production, marketing, and sales. External customers include customers, consumers, and regulatory agencies (governmental, legal).
• Responsible for developing product cost and capital expenditure data as required.
• Travel as required to customers, manufacturing plants, vendors, and to provide other company representation.
• Assist sales representatives or customers in understanding their product requirements, installation methods, and their proper applications. Makes suggestions on available alternatives if possible.

Benefits

• We provide the stability of a large organization with the tight-knit, collaborative feel of a specialized craft team.
• We offer the stability of a market leader and a place where you can truly grow a lifelong career.
• We provide the tools for you to do your best work.

What This Job Offers

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