Overall Responsibilities:

The Senior Product Engineer provides design solutions for products and sets up product specifications to meet business goals.

Responsibilities:

- Product development: Working closely with design, test, manufacturing, and quality engineering team members to provide support

- Product specifications: Establishing product specifications to meet organizational goals

- Test programs: Developing test programs, hardware, DVP&R

- Support product design direction with structural computational analysis (FEA)

- Data analysis: Analyzing statistical data for new and sustaining products

- Product release documentation: Generating and managing product release documentation

- Cost reduction: Driving cost reduction activities

- Product issues: Working on resolutions to product issues using data analysis

- Train, and mentor other Engineers and supporting staff

- Ensure APQP compliance during engineering development activities, as well as interface deliverables.

- Manage access to OE CAD data via various avenues including SEMA and direct contact with OEM representatives.

- Utilize and coordinate robust product designs practices within Engineering.

- Interface with customers to obtain technical requirements and engineering specifications (QFD and related activities).

- Support safety initiatives, policies and procedures to ensure plant operations are safe and consistent with company standards and help reduce accidents and injuries.

- Exemplify and foster teamwork within the company. Promptly respond to concerns, issues, and suggestions and acts to ensure positive employee relations.

- Ensure full compliance with all applicable requirements and specifications imposed by the company, the customer and/or the industry.

- Other duties as assigned or needed.

Characteristics and skills:

- Experience with - concept to completion- stage gate methodology.

- Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

- Must be a self-starter capable of working both independently, as well as part of a team.

- Work requires willingness to work a flexible schedule.

- Work may require occasional weekends and/or evening work.

- The ability to travel is required - estimated 10%. Valid driver's license.

- Critical thinking, analysis, and creativity.

- Understanding of Product Data Management systems and workflow

- Experience in presenting gate reviews, gate packages, senior leadership product development reviews in a disciplined and detailed product development process.

- Must be able to balance team and individual responsibilities, giving and receiving feedback, while supporting efforts to succeed.

- Generating creative solutions and being able to translate concepts and information into images.

- Must have strong computer skills and be proficient with Microsoft Office software and related packages.

- Must have strong analytical skills and be well organized, an excellent problem solver, motivator, and decision maker.

- Working knowledge of truck and vehicle accessories, plastics technology, fiberglass manufacturing would be a plus along with project experience in the automotive, OEM, construction, industrial, or vehicle/equipment/aftermarket industry.

Educational and other requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline

- 10-years minimum experience in product engineering

- Good administrative, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work with a wide variety of individuals

- Familiar with quality systems and quality requirements

- 10 years- experience with ANSYS software

- Experience developing DFMEA's and DVP&R- s

- Six Sigma experience highly desirable

- CAD experience a plus (especially SolidWorks)

- Experience with lean principles (5S, kaizen, value stream mapping, demand flow etc.)

- Good mechanical, analytical, and technical skills.

- A true - collaborative- leader that embraces the idea that he/she is the - go-to- person.

- Must be an initiative-taker capable of working both independently, as well as part of a team.