Product Engineer

Position Summary

As an innovation leader, we look for ambitious, forward-thinking, open-minded and well-rounded individuals to join our global team.

The hose product engineering team is responsible for the design, development, and performance testing of hoses used in hydraulic, industrial, fluid transfer, and automotive applications. In this role there will be opportunities to work with a diverse product offering spanning multiple applications and markets with the guidance of more senior product development engineers. The right candidate will become a member of an experienced team, executing projects globally to drive expansion of the fluid power business.

The product reliability team is responsible for product forensic analysis (FA), technique and systems development to support FA and providing statistical analysis on existing product performance to construct reliability models to optimize testing and product performance. The reliability team is also responsible for creating new mathematical methods and validating correlations to advance the science of hose design, as well as piloting new product concepts and technology to drive innovation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Direct work responsibilities will include:
• Product BOM management
• Creation of lab orders for product testing
• Analyzing product test results
• Organizing and monitoring builds of test materials
• Benchmarking of products in industry
• Experimentation to enhance product design.
• Forensic analysis
• Interaction with a cross functional global team (including operations, quality, material development, process engineering, commercial, etc.)
• Must be able to quickly learn to apply core engineering and six sigma skills such as problem solving, SPC data collection and analysis, FMEA, DOE, etc.
• Limited travel may be required (5-15%), potentially including international travel.

Keys to Success

• Keeps self-control in hard situations.
• Strong Communication skills
• Problem Solving and decision making.
• Costumer focus (internal and external)
• Negotiation skills
• Creativity, proactivity, and teamwork.
• Problem Solving process.
• Exceptional attention to   internal and external customer requests
• Negotiation skills

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline or EIT certification with engineering work experience required.
• 2 to 5 years of engineering experience
• Background with functional application of engineering techniques listed in essential duties and responsibilities is preferred.