Title: Product Development Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Position Classification: Exempt
Position Status Full-time
Required Skills/Qualifications 4-year engineering degree / 3+ years of related experience
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Product Development
- Maintain key customer and supplier relationships.
- Collaborate with customers, suppliers, and internal teams to launch new products.
- Ability to brainstorm and communicate ideas through discussion, sketches, CAD, and prototypes.
- Must be a skilled problem solver and be able to apply engineering expertise to problem solving.
- Advocate design, process, and supply chain options to reduce time to market, decrease part cost, increase profitability, improve ease of assembly, and guarantee quality.
- Create and maintain project schedules and issue lists.
- Create bills of materials and quotes.
- Ability to communicate effectively and provide weekly updates to customers and internal project teams.
- Create and maintain SolidWorks CAD models and drawings as needed.
- Must be capable of managing multiple priorities and projects independently with limited direction.
- Assist with packaging solutions.
- Assist with the creation of standard work documents for new products and processes.
- Assist with the training of production team members on new processes or process improvements.
- Failure Analysis and determine appropriate solutions.
Lifecycle Product Support
- Create and manage Engineering Change Orders.
- Coordinate changes and product improvements with customers, suppliers, and Nuvar team.
- Quote special requests from customers.
- Identify, propose, and implement product improvements.
Other:
- Consistently work in a safe manner.
- Show willingness to learn and continuously improve skills.
- Participate in the continuous improvement program.
- Maintain professional behavior and attitude.
- Assist with ISO auditing.
- Champion a positive culture throughout the organization.
- Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance.
- Other duties as assigned.
Physical Demands
- Occasional bending and lifting and/or moving product weighing up to 15 pounds
- This position requires a physical presence on Nuvar’s premises with a minimum of an eight-hour day for five days with some overtime
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. If you require a reasonable accommodation to perform the essential functions of this position, you must request accommodation in writing, within 182 days after you know or should know of the need for accommodation. Job requirements are subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Nuvar will attempt to provide an accommodation that allows the employee to perform the essential functions of his/her position unless there is a significant risk to the health and safety of the individual or other employees or it creates an undue hardship to Nuvar.
Work Environment
This position is performed primarily in an office setting but may require time spent in a manufacturing environment which contains dust and material particles in the air. The noise level in the work environment is low and may require the use of personal protective gear when in the manufacturing area. These work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
