ILUS - Sr. Product Development Engineer

Daifuku•Grand Rapids, MI

About The Position

Leads the development of new product designs for automated material handling systems, working on medium and large projects. Leads work teams, oversees others’ work, and mentors less-senior team members. The role involves developing, engineering, prototyping, testing, and revising product designs, while ensuring solutions are safe, reliable, manufacturable, scalable, consistent, competitive, desirable to customers, and easy to maintain. The engineer collaborates with internal teams and outside vendors, uses modeling and simulation tools to evaluate designs, and performs on-site testing and verification. Travel may be up to 20%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Industrial, or Product Development, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of material-handling-related experience.
Experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment.
Experience designing parts or equipment for volume manufacturing.
Experience with SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD and 2D AutoCAD.
Experience with MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Teams.

Responsibilities

Create product designs that are manufacturable, scalable, consistent, competitive, and desirable to customers.
Perform specialized and complex work involving significant accountability and decision-making.
Ensure new products are safe, reliable, and easy to maintain.
Follow engineering standards and use modeling and simulation tools to evaluate designs.
Partner with design, internal customers, manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, and outside vendors to develop new solutions.
Maintain a progress schedule that meets project milestones.
Perform on-site testing and verification.
Conceive, develop, engineer, prototype, test, and revise product designs.
Analyze data to identify trends in usage, cost, performance, and reliability.
Develop and execute test plans for concepts and prototypes.
Select appropriate, cost-effective purchased parts.
Perform engineering calculations to ensure robust designs, including horsepower, stress, torque, deflection, torsion, overhung load, sortation rate, cycle rate, air consumption, and amperage draw.
Work with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve development and design issues.
Participate in new product scope specification.
Review product designs for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, and customer requirements and specifications.
Lead work teams, oversee the work of other team members, and mentor less-senior team members.