Product Engineer

Salary: $60,000 - $110,000

 Summary/Objective

Provides engineering design and support for all aspects of Puck products to ensure functionality, quality, cost, performance, and on time delivery by performing the following duties.

 

Essential Functions

 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

1. Assists with the development of product design, functionality, and style standards.
2. Review, approval, and placement of purchase part models, prints, and necessary documentation into PDM Vault and ensure completeness and documentation integrity.
3. Implement designs within the project schedule and budget parameters.
4. Analyze and communicate risks of a new design or process and communicate results to project engineering, team lead, or management using FMEA, FEA, stress, or similar mechanical engineering computational analysis.  Risk analysis includes evaluation of time constraints.

1. Collaborate with fluid power, electrical and software teams to ensure desired component and system operation to project specifications.
2. Create, maintain, and review CAD models and print documentation that are inclusive of all materials including fasteners, plumbing, wiring, purchase parts, manufactured parts, and assemblies in a manner that reflects Puck manufacturing practices and capabilities.

1. Review proposed change requests to existing released parts or assemblies to ensure compliance regarding revision changes on released parts or assemblies and make recommendations to team lead and management.
2. Recommend and complete engineering change order forms (ECO) and submit to team lead and management for scheduling.
3. Create product test plan documentation to be conducted post-first article approval to ensure product design meets specifications.
4. Update product specification documentation and project notes with specification updates or design criteria refinements.
5. Provide support to manufacturing engineering to ensure product is properly fabricated and assembled based on the intended functionality of the design.
6. Interface with Project and Manufacturing Engineering teams to ingest and handoff work.
7. Assign duties to Product Design Technicians and examine work for accuracy, neatness and conformance to policies, procedures, and nature of the request.
8. Adjust errors. resolve complaints and maintain positive working relationships with peers.

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Competencies

 

1. Technical Capacity.
2. Problem Solving/Analysis.
3. Strategic Thinking.
4. Financial Management.
5. Leadership.
6. Performance Management.
7. Business Acumen.
8. Communication Proficiency.
9. Professionalism.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

 

Work Environment

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

 

Physical Demands

 

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.

 

Work is performed mostly in office settings. Some outdoor work is required in the inspection of various equipment outside or on location at farm sites.  Hand-eye coordination is necessary to operate drafting instruments, computers and various pieces of office equipment.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and smell.

 

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

 

 

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

 

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.  This position may occasionally require long hours and weekend work.

 

Travel

 

Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.

 

Required Education and Experience

 

1.Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in engineering or a closely related field and a minimum of four years previous engineering experience; or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO)

 

Puck Enterprises provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Puck complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

 

Puck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Puck’s team members to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Other Duties

 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.