Sr. Product Development Engineer

Cooper-Standard • Northville, MI

120d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Product Development Engineer will lead the mechanical development of essential consumer products that have national and international exposure to millions of consumers. This involves working with a creative, collaborative team of engineering and design professionals, test labs, marketing, industrial design, and sales towards the successful launch of new consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical solutions of a project to include initial scoping, design concept generation, functional prototyping, design validation, manufacturing validation, and development of value engineering plans through product launch.
• Understand and share best practices, processes and customers.
• Contribute to standards and best practices as required.
• Follow a standard engineering workflow, with milestones, and specific deliverables to be complemented with an innovative, continuous improvement spirit and obsession for exceeding customer expectations.
• Investigate and prescribe optimized materials and manufacturing processes for a given component and sub-systems.
• Look beyond current material and manufacturing standards, and integrate outside industry best practices and manufacturing innovation into the development.
• Apply critical thinking to understand depth of design and to predict why, when, and how designs fail.
• Understand customer required standards/design guides and use this understanding to accomplish strategic objectives.
• Effective leadership of collaborative sessions within and outside technical domain to gather information and vet technical opportunities, consumer needs, and optimized design.
• Generate novel technical innovation that can be used to gain competitive advantage.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.
• Mentor and support new product development engineers.
• Ability to solve problems in complex situations with minimal supervision; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and advanced problem-solving tools.
• May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing