GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

As a Project Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design/ configure ready-to-install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to an application or machine. You will demonstrate your organizational talent in coordinating and prioritizing a number of simultaneous projects in different statuses. Smart and creative process consulting for clients is part of what you do to reduce their costs and/or improve their technology. With communication skills, you lead price negotiations, new product introduction, manufacturing, and customer support.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
• Knowledge of wire harnessing processes, tooling and industry standards.
• Strong technical skills: able to present technical concepts; provide customers with hands-on technique using our products.
• Self-starter; motivated, team focused and results driven.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Familiar with best manufacturing and assembly practices/ techniques.
• Familiar with Item Master and Bill of Materials.
• Requires demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices and principles.
• Requires knowledge necessary to perform the job function such as an understanding of the engineering change order process, product development process, value engineering etc.
• Strong Product technology, change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, personal effectiveness, team skills, and quality.
• Knowledge of CAD tools.
• Requires additional knowledge of systems and software necessary such as MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Assist with configuration/ design of readychain® and readycable® products.
• Perform detailed review of customer drawings to identify best manufacturing approach with cost-effective component selection.
• Interfacing with the electronics and material suppliers, and internally with sales, as required to solicit competitive material quotes.
• Calculate material and labor cost, tooling and test requirements, and pricing in support of product quotation requests.
• Develop/ document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with multiple teams including: New Product Introduction, First Article builds, and First Article Inspections.
• Communicate with sales and/ or customers to ensure their technical needs are being met.
• Interact with quality, sales, and/ or customers with product quality issues to find the best solution moving forward.
• Provide support to the manufacturing teams by resolving technical issues related to the product, assembly process, and tooling.
• Work closely with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques, process documentation, tooling, assembly aids, etc.
• Coordinate and execute Engineering Change Orders, Waiver/ Deviations, and Documentation Change Orders with assistance from multiple Operations Teams.