We're looking for a highly motivated Sr. Project Engineer to join our Product Development Team. This OEM customer-facing position is responsible for leading multiple engineering projects, including Customer driven new product development, cost reduction, and quality improvement projects.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Successfully manage high volume, custom engineered and OEM customer driven residential water filtration projects.
- Directly interface with customers during the product development process
- Manage full cycle Product Development deliverables for cross-functional teams.
- Oversee / Create customer drawings, specifications, packaging, product labels and retail packing.
- Participate in Filtration Technology training sessions.
- Identify product improvements utilizing VAVE, executing where applicable.
- Support Quality in conducting root cause analysis on returned products and complaints.
- Identify / coordinate performance and structural product testing per customer requirements.
- Review test data and create Engineering Reports.
- Communicate with internal (Sales, Marketing, Quality, Operations, Management) and external (Customers, Vendors) stakeholders.
BACKGROUND PROFILE:
- BS Degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Chemical preferred)
- 5+ years’ experience managing high volume product development projects.
- Filtration experience, preferably with water and respective media and vessels a plus.
- Regulatory testing, preferably NSF a plus.
- Competitive benchmarking and specification development
- Customer-facing experience is a high priority
- Concise communicator; both written and verbal.
- Proficient with the use of Quality, Lean, and Product Development tools (Stage Gate Process)
- Experience with high volume plastic injection molded parts
- CAD, preferably Solidworks or Creo Parametric
- Extensive knowledge of MS Project
- Experience with Epicor a plus.