ILUS - Sr. Product Development Engineer

Daifuku

$90K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, or Product Development) or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience in Material Handling
  • Proven experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment
  • Familiarity with designing parts for volume manufacturing
  • Proficient in SolidWorks or similar CAD software
  • Skilled in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Teams)

Responsibilities

  • Creates manufacturable and scalable product designs for automated material handling
  • Conducts complex analysis with significant accountability
  • Ensures products are safe, reliable, and easy to maintain
  • Uses modeling tools to validate designs
  • Collaborates with cross-functional teams for new solution development
  • Maintains project schedules aligning with milestones
  • Performs on-site testing and product verification
  • Analyzes data for trends in usage, cost, and performance
  • Develops and executes test plans for prototypes
  • Leads teams and mentors junior engineers

Benefits

  • Health, Vision, Dental insurance, and 401k with match
  • Pet Insurance available
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program
Full Job Description
Overview

Job Summary

Leads development of new product designs for automated material handling systems. Works on medium and large projects. Leads work teams, oversees the work of others, and mentors less senior team members.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions
  • Creates product designs that are manufacturable, scalable, consistent, competive, and desireable to Wynright's customers
  • Performs diverse, specialized and complex work involving significant accountability and decision-making
  • Ensures that new products are safe, reliable and easy to maintain
  • Follows engineering standards and uses modeling and simulation tools to prove or disprove designs
  • Partners with the design team, internal customers, manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, and outside vendors to develop new solutions
  • Maintains a progress schedule that meets project milestones
  • Performs on-site testing and verification
  • Travels up to 20%
  • Conceives, develops, engineers, prototypes, tests, and revises products designs
  • Analyzes data to identify trends in usage, cost, performance, and reliability
  • Developes and executes test plans for concepts and prototypes
  • Selects appropriate and cost-effective purchased parts
  • Performs engineering calculations to ensure robust designs, including horsepower, stress, torque, deflection, torsion, overhung load, sortation rate, cycle rate, air consumption, and amperage draw
  • Works with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve development and design issues
  • Participates in new product scope specification
  • Reviews product designs for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, and customer requirements and specifications
  • Leads work teams, oversees the work of other team members, and mentors less-senior team members


Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Industrial, or Product Development, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 6 years of Material Handling-related experience
  • Experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment is required
  • Experience designing parts or equipment for volume manufacturing is required


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Requirements
  • Experienced with SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD and 2D AutoCAD
  • Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Teams, etc.


Benefit Information
  • Many great benefits to include Health/Vision/Dental/401k with match/Pet Insurance
  • FSA/HSA
  • Employee Assistance Program

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