The PD Engineer II is needed to bridge Product Development (PD), Product Launch (PL), and Manufacturing teams to manage projects and initiatives for new item development, ensuring alignment with operational capabilities and sustaining manufacturing standards.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in three-dimensional conceptual modeling skills, and interpretation of physical and electronic renderings of products and tools, dies, and fixtures or similar work.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft (MS) Office applications including MS Excel data sorting, analysis, formulas, and spreadsheet design.
- Hands-on jewelry manufacturing experience.
- Lean Six Sigma training, Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
Responsibilities
- Ensures new items align with operational capabilities by monitoring and evaluating manufacturing processes throughout development, while sustaining manufacturing standards and meeting design intent.
- Defines requirements for specifications, quality, testing, characterization, and implementation of new materials, components, and applications.
- Implements engineering changes within Start/Finish Shop to ensure quality and productivity yields meet expectations and manage projects/resources at a planning/working level within the Product Development team to develop and implement best practices.
- Evaluates and develops innovative solutions to create processes to mitigate manufacturing challenges.
- Supports quality control activities to resolve production problems, maximize product reliability, and minimize cost.
- Utilizes analytical tools to implement necessary changes in new items, with a developed understanding of a products proportion, space relationship, positive and negative space and overall design intent.
- Collaborates with Technology Department and Manufacturing Engineers to research and help deploy new technology and production methods as they relate to implementation of new materials, components, equipment, and applications.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree in Technical or Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Jewelry Arts or related field; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- 3 years’ experience in product design, development, testing or similar work.
- Effective communication and organizational skills.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effectively manages and coordinates cross functional projects concurrently.
