Product Development Engineer

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Develop new and improved products to meet customer or company specifications recommending the optimum process and equipment.
• Maintain product, process, and material knowledge through coordination of sample builds, engineering analysis, and testing.
• Enhance current products; specifications, validation procedures, and FMEA’s to reflect changing customer requirements to continuously improve product performance and product costs through design, processes, and material.
• Investigate and develop specific actions on issues, problems, and opportunities as identified by production, quality, suppliers, or customers utilizing problem solving skills.
• Coordinate and/or participate on assigned projects utilizing project management techniques and APQP processes
• Provide estimates, engineering analysis, and guidance in the process of cost estimating requests on improved or new products in order to capture new sales
• Develop and use TS16949/QS9000/ ISO14001 procedures and workplace instructions to meet quality objectives set forth in the FRS Quality manual.
• Maintain an awareness of industry trends, competitive activity, and technological advancements to provide sound advise to peers and other functional groups. Investigate competitive intellectual property. File disclosures on novel technology
• Create and maintain the engineering database in order to provide design standards/guidelines for future hose/hose assemblies to eliminate recurring problems and prevent new failures.
• Aggressively push continuous improvement. Present personal development topics/ideas to the team and offer suggestions on how to better satisfy our internal and external customers

Additional Responsibilities

• Help define and support the need for capital equipment
• Travel to PKOH sites and customer locations as needed
• Have a positive impact on all company personnel, customers, suppliers, etc.

Education/Training/Experience required:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Mechanical or Chemical
• 5 years’ experience in hose development preferred
• 5 years’ experience in hose and hose fitting interaction(crimping) preferred
• OEM experience preferred
• Fluent in English

Physical Requirements:

• Standing – 50%
• Walking – 50%
• Reaching – 25%
• Lifting – 20 pounds