Job Description:

JOB DUTIES:

• Conceives and provides practical product design applications using complex technical principles. Emphasis of this position is on creating concepts and directing the design and development of complex engineering projects.
• Prepares concept, design, development, and feasibility studies of complex engineering projects.
• Delegates portions of the project to other engineers and leads and coordinates the design, analysis, and computer simulation effort.
• Prepares development plans and is responsible for meeting scheduled dates.
• Acts as the development team leader by interacting with Plant locations and various engineering departments.
• Conducts technical evaluations of major systems on competitive products.
• Evaluates, defines, and resolves design and manufacturing problems.
• Travels to foreign and domestic plants, dealerships, and customer job sites to solve design problems or to field test locations to evaluate a product improvement.
• Uses technical expertise and product knowledge to play the leadership role in the problem resolution process when interfacing with Test and Evaluation, service, Plant personnel, suppliers, and consultants.
• Works with manufacturability teams resolving problems with manufacturing and statistical process controls.
• Keeps abreast of latest technological advancements and prepares design concepts and develops unique product design features the Company often patents to gain competitive advantage.
• Travels worldwide to suppliers, production plants, dealerships, customer job sites, and field test locations related to the development of engineering projects and problem resolution.
• Ensure the product compliance implementation appropriately in facility and manage the compliance standard application.

BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:

• Requires a bachelor degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum plus 3-5 years experience or a masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science plus 1 to 2 years experience or a doctorate engineering degree.
• Incumbent must be able to demonstrate the ability to gain a mastery of complex engineering and manufacturability concepts.
• Must have a good mechanical aptitude with ability to develop product
• concepts.
• Requires strong leadership ability and good communications skills.