Product Development Engineer

at  Continental

Your tasks
Product Development Conveyor Belts - includes support for all conveyor belt types including engineered products for the agricultural market, service materials and special projects as warranted. The emphasis will be on developing products that meet the requirements of our traditional trough or pipe belt solutions or agricultural solutions while improving the performance of our belts.
Coordination and management of Product Development (PD) projects according to the New Product Funnel Process.
Develop and approve new products to support our conveyor belt business. This is done within the goal of PD to lay the foundation of innovation for the BA IAM to be the leader for highly developed products and systems.
Work with Material Platform / Material Process Engineering to define specifications and test procedures for raw material suppliers (cord, fabric, coating, rubber)
Assist in the development of new alternative material suppliers and support audit if necessary
Participate in strategic projects
Customer acquisition and PD in order to gain new business
Support global standardization and consolidation of belt and service material specifications
Define DFMEA and product DVP to meet the project requirement book and develop test plans and procedures
Drive the New Product Developments from G30 to G80
Technical lead in development projects
Drive, document and train design standards for the product line
Systematically analyze own and competitor products, including their product performance and manufacturing process Technical experts to train new engineering staff, to help in complaint questions, back-up for Application Engineering
Transfer master recipes to local requirements and input products in specific plants
Contribute to CT raw material strategy around sustainable products by approving into final products
Approval of alternative suppliers, Raw Materials (Polymers, Chemicals, Fabrics, Steel Cables, Fasteners, Splice Materials, etc.)
Establish required cooperation with external partners (suppliers, universities, institutes, ATD, customers (OEMs), etc.)
Representation of company in standardization committees (DIN, EN, ISO, AS, CEMA, ARPM, …) and interest groups (VDI, VDMA, …)
Execute special projects utilizing PM methods and procedures
Support creation of KPI documentation, STI results, and necessary information for communicating department successes
Maintenance of software systems for use in our daily work
Provide support for training information and transfer of knowledge to other part of the organization (Application Engineering, Central Technology, Customers, Distributors, Field service, Commercial, etc.).
Update and maintain the required design guidelines to allow easy transfer of information and rules to other parts of the organization

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

University degree in Engineering
Knowledge of the Business Model and the profit and loss calculation of the BA (methodical)
Overall technical knowledge of conveyor belt systems
Quality management methods (FMEA, statistics, 6 Sigma, Yokoten)
Intellectual property

Please refer the Job description for details