Product Engineer

Description

This position provides product engineering and manufacturing process support to the business. This position will require interaction with customers, vendors, and all internal departments.

The primary responsibilities of this position are:

* Starting with our customers desired part designs, design castings to produce a high-quality part using good casting design and foundry practices. Utilize computer aided design tools such as SolidWorks and ProCast to supplement your cast designs.

* Create excellent work instructions, routings, and bills of materials for the shop floor to produce those castings.

* Responsible for select customer product lines from new product development to order review to initial production to continuous improvement activities of established products. Industries served include military defense, aerospace, commercial, nuclear, petrochemical, and others.

* Deliver excellent customer service both internally and externally.

* Support and utilize additive manufacturing processes, work with machining vendors to support the development of wax tooling or customer required machining and other processes.

The position contributes to improving the customer experience through streamlining of the entire product lifecycle with the ultimate goal of delivering new and repeat orders on time, reducing overall costs, enhancing company profitability, and satisfying the customer. Success in this position will come to those who work hard, treat people well, and drive their projects forward and don't wait. Additionally, being detail oriented while being able to see the big picture and owning and managing all aspects of new product development is essential. Providing direction to internal and external support resources as well as occasionally jumping in to perform the work to develop work instruction methods or move key projects along is typical.

Requirements

The candidate we seek should have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial or relevant engineering discipline with experience in a manufacturing or metal casting environment. Proficiency in Solidworks or similar CAD software. Multiple years experience with the investment casting process, GD&T, casting simulation & modelling, and ERP / PLM software is desirable. Experience with vacuum investment casting and technology a plus. Experience with additive manufacturing processes is a plus. Strong demonstrated organizational, analytical, communication and leadership skills are essential.