SENIOR DESIGN ENGINEER

Applies scientific principles to innovate, design, develop, test and implement technologies, components, sub-systems, machines, tooling and systems to ensure compliance to specifications, requirements and customer guarantees across applicable operating conditions.

Requirements

• Designs major components or major portions of functional systems, technically advanced prototypes and promotional or specific products using computer aided design, computer aided simulation and other engineering tools & processes.
• Develops or improves products and facilitates manufacturing operations.
• Develops data and makes layouts, sketches and notes for design proposals.
• Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace-ability, strength-weight efficiency and contractual specification requirements and cost.
• Designs, develops and tests metallic and non-metallic structures or materials and their related fabrication processes for use in engineering designs.
• Manages new product development projects.
• Prepares new or revised designs, drawings and working plans to improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations that meet agreed upon product requirements.
• Creates and presents manufacturing plans using design for manufacturing reviews to ensure effectiveness, viability and quality of manufacturing processes.
• Develops and executes test plans that ensures product designs meet all product performance, reliability, cosmetic and quality requirements.
• Provides technical leadership and assists in training less experienced engineers to help them diagnose and solve problems and build employee capabilities.
• Coordinates with other organizations affected by design development to exchange information, ideas and techniques for design of product or processes.
• Communicates with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated manufacturing process design efforts and ensure project completion.
• Confers with manufacturing engineering, quality and supply chain personnel on specifications to evaluate interface between hardware and operational and performance requirements of overall system.
• Ensures adherence to the engineering budget and utilizes available scarce resources wisely.