SUMMARY: Provide conceptual design, mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:- Seek & define Applications/Customer design requirements in concept phase
- Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements
- Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using computer aided design 3d Modeling computer system.
- Participate in design reviews throughout the Product Development Process (PDP)
- As required, serve as the leader of cross functional Product Development Teams (PDT) during the development of new Products
- Work to performance and cost/volume targets.
- Conduct tolerance analysis and finite element material properties analysis
- Generate detailed drawings to VPC standards using GTD as appropriate.
- Design experiments / test plans to assure compliance to reliability requirements.
- Develop test plans and perform testing or over-see technicians in testing.
- Document or support the documentation of test results
- Use Design for Manufacturability Methods to work with suppliers, VPC manufacturing and other teams to achieve desired results.
- Sustain Engineering Efforts
- Use applications/product knowledge to:
- Serve as consultant for new product requests to filter out rejects, determine the most feasible way to provide a quality quote in the least amount of time.
- Use PDP methods mentioned above to design complex product extensions of existing products.
- Serve as consultant to provide high level applications engineering support to customers.
- Use engineering analysis to resolve customer application issues
- Use engineering analysis to resolve customer quality issues on legacy product.
- Provide support with Eng. Change Notice (ECN) process
- Lead cost reduction efforts for legacy products.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:- Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering and training in the design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
- 5 years of CAD experience - Solidworks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, LabVIEW, ANSYS HFSS and Altium PCB Design software a plus.
- Familiarity with Digital Serial Analyzers (DSA), Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and other electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.
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