Product Engineer (Architecture)

Job Posting Start Date 12-20-2024 Job Posting End Date 02-20-2025

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Product Engineer located in Columbia SC.

Reporting to the Sr. Manufacturing Engineering Manager the Product Engineer will be responsible for receiving, evaluating, cleaning, and customizing all technical information / documentation from the customer related to their product, derived from a New Product Introduction (NPI) or a design change to establish all necessary processes to manufacture it by maintaining its design and performance integrity.

What a typical day looks like:

• Handle product transfer and new product set up.
• Support production by assessing product engineering issues of diverse scope that arise on
• production line.
• Suggest improvements to process to obtain improved quality and production yield.
• Solve product related problems and perform failure evaluation related to product issues.
• Interact with customer and various departments on product related issues.
• Work with design team to resolve design related issues.
• Suggest modification to work instructions, material, or product changes to ensure excellent quality of products.
• Customer´s Bill of Material (BOM) evaluation and structure definition for production.
• Functional Product Documentation review.
• Safety Requirements and regulations compliance identification.
• Engineering Drawings Interpretation of parts and assemblies.
• Request customer for drawing corrections, additions, clarification, measurements methods.
• Manage Engineering Changes Implementation.
• Conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), tolerance evaluation, Design of Experiment (DOE), form-fit-function to define failure root/cause evaluation and reporting to customer.
• Provide support to supply chain to integrate parts derived from the vertical integration or
• localization effort.
• Provide product training to the manufacturing/process engineers for better understanding of
• the product.
• Request, handle, and administrate golden samples, engineering samples of final product and/or piece parts.
• Establish, operate, and maintain a standard method for technical information interchange with the customer to control and preserve information of NPI transferred projects.
• Inspection of customer product parts and assemblies through model files using Computer-aided Design (CAD) system.
• Evaluate and identify course of action of Product Change Notification (PCN) and Manufacturing Change Order (MCO).
• Ability to take additional responsibilities of the Manufacturing Engineer depending on the size and complexity of the customer product.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• 3-5 years' experience.
• Bachelor's degree Required. Preferably in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive customer facing experience.
• Extensive experience working and communicating with product design teams.
• Extensive bill of material experience.
• Experience with PLM system. Preferably agile.
• Experience with ERP systems. Preferably BaaN.
• New product introduction experience.
• High mix engineer to order experience.
• Strong process development skills.
• Experience with electrical assembly.
• Working knowledge of CAD/ SolidWorks.
• Strong MS Office experience.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

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Job Category

Production Engineering

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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