The business problem Crane Company is looking to solve is the innovation, development, and maintenance of product designs to drive revenue growth through new product sales.
Requirements
- Product design and development expertise.
- Working familiarity with Six Sigma tools, experimental design.
- Plastics processing expertise, particularly with fluoropolymers.
- Experience with machining, welding and metal forming.
- Computer-aided design
- Prototyping
- Testing and optimization
Responsibilities
- Product and process development related to the manufacture of fluoropolymer lined fluid handling components. Hands on development work to include computer-aided design, prototyping, testing and optimization.
- Act as technical lead on assigned new product development projects, which entails project management and reporting, in a cross functional team environment.
- Understand industry and customer specifications and apply them in the product development process.
- Interface with customers and suppliers to understand needs, develop applications, and discover opportunities.
- Interface with existing and new vendors to specify optimized materials required in new and existing products.
- Interface with Product, Process and Operational Excellence Engineers to develop innovative solutions to product design related problems.
- Utilize collaborative design processes, including, but not limited to DFMEA, 3P and kaizen to enhance innovation and prevent problems.
Other
- B.S in Engineering or related degree.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills used to communicate with vendors/customers, and internal reporting.
- Strong project management skills.
- Team player with strong individual initiative and decision making ability.
- Minimum 5-7 years in manufacturing and product development experience.
