Sr. Product Development Engineer – Markham Canada

Job Overview

 POSITION DESCRIPTION:

This is a senior design engineering position with responsibilities to design and launch new products by coordinating efforts with a global team.  The ideal candidate for this position will possess an excellent professional attitude with good communication skills. Due to the nature of this position a people oriented person that is dedicated to meeting objective deadlines with a strong basis of mechanical design and engineering experience would be best suited.

 JOB DUTIES:

•     Develop concepts on proposals for new or revised products ensuring manufacturing feasibility with thin strip                                                                                     progressive  stamping, thin wall injection molding and automated assembly manufacturing processes
•     Create marketing/engineering proposal concepts
•     Coordinate with a global team of engineers in supporting the design, development and testing of new products
•     Resolve engineering and design related issues as they may occur
•     Check approve and process drawings, BOMs, Item Masters
•     Perform Mechanical simulation and tolerance analysis to ensure the design will work in all possible scenarios
•     Work very closely with Signal Integrity team to ensure the design meets the electrical requirements while taking
•     into account the manufacturing limitations
•     Ensure designs meet both cost, performance, manufacturability requirements
•     Facilitate design for manufacturability (DFM) with internal and external tooling and process development teams.
•     Drive product design risk reduction efforts through validation and verification activities such as FEA, Tolerance
•     analysis, prototyping, and verification testing prior to production tooling launch
•     Provide engineering drawing, assembly and test specifications, product prototypes and/or customer samples.
•     Ensure latest models and drawings are updated into WindChill
•     Manage component and assembly drawing package creation, release, and modification for tooling
•     build/modification through the ECN process.
•     Contact with vendors and suppliers to explore cost reduced products or processes which may be applied to new
•     and existing product designs.
•     Provide support to manufacturing and quality engineering teams on assigned product lines with failure and root
•     cause analysis for production related quality and design issues.
•     Specify  materials for molding, stamping and die-casting
•     Specify plating and plating requirements for components
•     Utilize industry standards for the requirements and qualification of assigned products
•     Must maintain a good working relationship with outside vendors, tool-room, manufacturing engineering,
•     marketing, sales and quality control.

 REQUIREMENTS:

 Must Have:

•     University/College degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
•     Understanding of progressive stamping and injection molding manufacturing processes
•     CAD/CAM experience
•     7- 10 years engineering experience
•     3+years of Project management skills
•     Working experience in 2D/3D CAD system – Solidworks or ProE
•     Good problem solving abilities
•     Good verbal and written English skills.
•     Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
•     Must be open and flexible with respect to changing priorities
•     Excellent English communication skills
•     Ability  to coordinate a global team in support of product development
•  Desired:
•     Electrical interconnect related design experience
•     Direct customer interface experience on technical design related topics.
•     SolidWorks experience
•     Knowledge of connectors or small mechanical/electrical parts
•     Self-motivated and self-driven individual with a high degree of ownership
•     Exposure to small metal parts stamping and molding
•     Proven tolerance analysis skills
•     Be legally able to travel in N/A, Europe and Asia
•     FEA ,simulation and modeling experience
•     Geometric  tolerancing and Dimensioning.
•     SPC (Basic).