Sr Product Dev Engineer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Knowledge and practice of Hutchinson's Health, Safety, and Environmental policies, procedures, and requirements.

• Detailed development of a product or system to meet customer's functional and cost requirements. Fully utilizing physical test and analytical methods to support design direction.

• Responsible for detailed design, establishing prints and specifications, developing prototypes, and specifying tests

• Direct FEA workflow to produce a robust design that meets the customer's functional and reliability requirements.

• Lead Design for Manufacturing (DFM) process on all projects from RFQ to Production Launch to insure design robustness meets production needs.

• To encourage applied research and development with the engineering team and to foster product and process innovation.

• To coach and develop the engineering skills of Engineers and Technicians within the team.

• To cooperatively work with the Application Team Leader to develop team objectives and goals and to jointly manage the team to achieve these goals.

• Participates in the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) team including the review of issues related to: timing, customer requirements, components, suppliers, molds, production processes, product costs, etc.

• Collaborate with colleagues in other regions to benchmark latest development and industry trends and share technical product knowledge.

• Conduct competitive benchmarking on targeted market segments following market trends.

• Continuously evaluates designs, manufacturing processes and applies value analysis to increase robustness, reduce material and labor costs while also improving product quality.

• The Senior PDE is the main line of technical communication with the customer, Hutchinson sales and with other Hutchinson departments.

• Responsible for completing tasks of all lower position levels and tasks assigned by Management.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Participates in, understands, supports, and adheres to all Safety and Quality policies and requirements.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE