The company is looking to provide leadership, mentorship, and direction to their engineering team to foster collaboration and high performance, while ensuring alignment with business goals and meeting customer requirements for new and existing designs.
Requirements
- Experience on designing trailers through a full system development life cycle
- Experience in evaluating and providing guidance on engineering cost and schedule baselines/estimates
- Deep understanding and experience with Finite Element Analysis simulations for safety critical applications.
- In-depth understanding of Federal Code – 49CFR.
- Expert in CAD drafting principles, practices, methods, techniques, and engineering principles with the ability to create models and drawings for complete trailers.
- Strong working knowledge of material properties – especially Steel.
- Strong working knowledge on basic hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical systems.
Responsibilities
- Complete all design related functions and provide necessary guidance so that work is performed accurately, on-time and in accordance with best engineering practices and all State and Federal DOT Regulations.
- Design products to maximize manufacturability.
- Establish plant engineering standards for product lines. Revise as necessary.
- Maintain continuing program of research and development in new products and in improved current product designs, consolidation of variants, products and models.
- Provide guidance to manufacturing and quality control regarding design issues.
- To assist manufacturing and consult on any matters that relate to product design when new methods of manufacture are considered.
- To advise specialty sales in matters related to trailer modifications, repairs, etc. or engineering aspects related to products other than our normal product line.
Other
- Provide leadership, mentorship and direction to the engineering team of 6-12 people, fostering collaboration and high performance.
- Oversee day-to-day operations of the engineering team, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Work with sales team to meet new design criteria and approve those modifications to existing designs needed to meet customer requirements.
- Work with production management to design for manufacturability, safe and efficient.
- Works with product management on the development of new designs.
