Watts is looking to solve the problem of maintaining and improving existing products to ensure their reliability, performance, and compliance with customer demands across various applications and industries. This involves optimizing designs, conducting root cause analyses, managing projects, and providing engineering product support.
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience in various engineering domains such as electro-mechanical, mechanical, and electronic applications and ability to apply those skills.
- Proficient knowledge in the use of 3D CAD solid modeling software, Auto Desk Inventor preferred.
- Moderate understanding of Design for Manufacturability (DFM), and Design for Assembly (DFA) approaches.
- Practical knowledge in product testing, validation plans, and analysis experience such as, FEA, Simulation, Design of Experiments.
- Strong understanding of sustaining engineering principles and practices.
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft 365 Applications.
- Technical Engineering Certification that encompasses competence and theoretical knowledge equivalent to a standard curriculum of an accredited BS degree in Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Proficient in troubleshooting and resolving product failures or issues reported by customers or found in the field, diagnosing problems, and implementing solutions to restore product functionality.
- Collaborate with manufacturing, quality, and other departments to support product transfers from engineering to production and provide daily technical support for design-related matters on the production floor.
- Support, facilitate, and accurately initiate cost reduction and value-add projects (VAVE) aimed at improving product yield, reducing variability, and increasing performance.
- Maintain 3rd party product certifications providing support for component obsolescence and product compliance (e.g., ASSE, UL/FM, ROHS, CE, etc.).
- Significant practical experience executing documentation of designs, including BOMs, drawings, procedures, and accurately managing Engineering Change Orders.
- Receive and process configure & made-to-order (MTO) products, including detail design, Bill of Materials, routing and release to manufacturing.
- Support sales and customer service organizations with technical information requests.
Other
- 3+ years of experience in product engineering, sustaining engineering or related field
- Strong decision making, critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills required for interaction with various engineering teams, suppliers, customers, regulatory personnel, and management.
- Ability to manage projects or processes that span outside of immediate responsibilities and work independently with little supervision in an effective manner.
- Comprehensive verbal, written, and presentation skills, capable of interacting with various levels of management.
