Product Development Engineer - Showering

at  Delta Faucet Company

Are you passionate about launching new and innovative showering products to meet unmet consumer needs? Delta Faucet Company has an opportunity for a Systems Integration Showering Engineer to join our staff. As part of the New Product Development and Integration team, you will be responsible for leading large projects with full autonomy while leading international teams to integrate new products into production. You will partner with highly motivated multi-functional teammates to deliver exciting product launches. This role reports directly to the NPD Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design coordination, development, and integration of new showering products that meet luxury, trade, and retail consumer needs
• Execute new showering product by leading components and modules through design, first article, engineering builds, pilot runs, and PPAP
• Collaborate daily with overseas teams, including Delta engineering, vendor design, and vendor manufacturing teams.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the competitive patent and product space for showering product
• Manage product and system requirements, specifications and flow down to define requirements for modules or components
• Lead technical team resources, design requirements development, and design risk assessment throughout project execution using DFC design standards/specs (DS), APQP methodologies, and NPD launch stage gate processes
• Establish and validate system level product requirements using test plans, simulation, and prototyping techniques
• Lead technical issue resolution teams, identifying and implementing root cause outside of NPD projects
• Scope, handle and approve technical tradeoffs to deliver requirements for production integration from concept to launch
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Architecture, Compliance, & Subsystem teams during development of new product.
• Travel up to 10% within the United States & Internationally

Education & Experience:

• Possess a BS in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering Technology field
• 12+ years of product engineering experience specializing in showering products
• Fluent in Mandarin, including business and engineering terminology
• Experience in a product engineering practitioner role with expertise in engineering tools, techniques, and standard methodologies for showering products.
• Outstanding soft skills with excellent written and verbal communication capabilities, able to collaborate, interact, and influence business and technical partners and leaders at all levels of the organization
• Excellent analytical and structured problem-solving skills along with the ability to simplify complex problems
• Familiarity with rapid prototyping and manufacturing processes, including injection molding, die casting, stamping, finishing and assembly
• Ability to lead multiple concurrent assignments
• Experience with design for manufacturability, cost estimation, GD&T, Systems DFMEA, PPAP and design verification and validation

Diversity & Inclusion:
At Delta Faucet Company, we view diversity as a mosaic of thoughts and perspectives that come from people’s varied cultural backgrounds, experiences, education, career paths and other influences that make each of us unique. For us, inclusion means welcoming differing opinions, collaborating, allowing people to come to work as who they are and recognizing everyone’s contributions. We know that in a diverse, inclusive company, ideas flow freely, all voices are heard and all perspectives are valued. Delta Faucet Company continuously strives to be this kind of organization. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) supports our inherent values, makes us more relevant to customers and consumers and inspires innovation. It is not a goal or a program; it is a vital ingredient in our formula for success and a key to our future growth.

• Lead the design coordination, development, and integration of new showering products that meet luxury, trade, and retail consumer needs
• Execute new showering product by leading components and modules through design, first article, engineering builds, pilot runs, and PPAP
• Collaborate daily with overseas teams, including Delta engineering, vendor design, and vendor manufacturing teams.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the competitive patent and product space for showering product
• Manage product and system requirements, specifications and flow down to define requirements for modules or components
• Lead technical team resources, design requirements development, and design risk assessment throughout project execution using DFC design standards/specs (DS), APQP methodologies, and NPD launch stage gate processes
• Establish and validate system level product requirements using test plans, simulation, and prototyping techniques
• Lead technical issue resolution teams, identifying and implementing root cause outside of NPD projects
• Scope, handle and approve technical tradeoffs to deliver requirements for production integration from concept to launch
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Architecture, Compliance, & Subsystem teams during development of new product.
• Travel up to 10% within the United States & Internationall