Overview
Provide engineering input to assigned product development projects, working with a cross-functional team across engineering, operations, sourcing, quality, service and marketing.
What you'll do
- Design, validate and bring new products to market.
- Specify precise new product functional requirements; design, test and integrate a variety of moderately complex components to produce final designs.
- Evaluate the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis) and safety.
- Design, develop, execute and evaluate fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of moderately complex products and/or components.
- Create and review material part specifications and bills of materials.
- Collaborate with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize moderately complex designs for manufacturability.
- Use CAD or CAE systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
- Support product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs).
- Act as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers.
- Travel to other Generac facilities as necessary.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What you'll need
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- 5+ years of relevant work experience.
Nice to have
- Ability to perform detail oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple projects.
- Design experience with a variety of materials (ie plastics, aluminum castings, sheet metal) and basic knowledge of material specs and use.
- Experience in new product design and development.
- Ability to conduct analysis using FEA, CFD, etc.
- Demonstrated written communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate technical information to all audiences.
- Applies engineering knowledge and experience to improve products, services and processes.
- Technical skills to include 3D modeling (ProE or SolidWorks), MS Excel and MS Word.
- Experience with machine design.
- Previous experience with SAP or equivalent ERP.
Details
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