Job description

DIRECT HIRE | LENEXA, KS | DESIGN ENGINEER |

Exciting opportunity for New Product Development. Manage the design of products while providing conscious and accountable leadership through rigorous use of lean tools and processes.Great company culture and a very collaborative team. This position is hands on, there are opportunities to design new products, prototype and validate the designs.

Essential Functions and Basic Duties

• Design products utilizing lean product development for lean manufacturing.
• Manage engineering work loads across numerous projects for developing new products as well as periodically supporting legacy products.
• Development of new products to ensure they meet performance, customer, and regulatory requirements, while meeting margins as committed to in the project scope.
• Utilize the First House to guide improvements on existing and development of new products.
• Ensure all product designs adhere to regulatory and agency standards as relevant to the product and market of product (i.e.: UL Standards).
• Ensure designs are such that assembly operator error is not a root cause.
• Use a visual project management system ensuring projects remain on time and within budget.
• Utilize productions quality metrics, customer feedback and warranty data to guide improvements on existing products.
• Identify and implement Continuous Improvement opportunities that improve the product development cycle.
• Actively participates in Policy Deployment and 3-year planning.
• Coordinate and lead project teams to achieve business goals on schedule.
• Lead root cause resolution for product performance issues.
• Be a technical resource for all departments to ensure products maintain the brand image.
• Models the importance of safety within a manufacturing facility.
• Demonstrates excellence in completion of all other duties as assigned.

Seeking:

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
• Understanding of fluid mechanics and structural analysis relating to fluid handling equipment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in various manufacturing processes such as casting, injection molding, machining, metal forming.
• Proficient at 3D CAD (prefer Solidworks) and familiar with FEA CFD software (prefer Ansys).
• Diverse technical background with hands-on and analytical capabilities.
• Strong business acumen to understand the impact engineering decisions have on every aspect of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and continuously improve engineering standards (design, testing, etc.) and processes. Understand their impact to the entire business.

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