Equipment Design Engineer

Bridgestone Americas, Inc.; Muscatine (IA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding program

Training & mentorship

CSR activities

Global work environment

Work-life balance

Inclusive team

Job summary

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. seeks an Equipment Design Engineer to design, analyze and install equipment and systems for global dealer operations. You will use AutoCAD and Creo, support plant issues, and drive improvements to uptime and reliability.

The role requires collaboration with engineering, marketing, IT, and purchasing, travel across the U.S., and willingness to work extended hours to meet project goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 2+ years of related experience, or advanced degree without experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design and improve equipment.
• Willingness to travel domestically and work extended hours as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new equipment for franchised dealers and maintain existing designs.
• Release engineering change orders to address obsolescence and improvements.
• Document designs with CAD tools, manage revisions and PLM.
• Plan small projects, secure resources, and ensure cost, schedule and functionality goals.
• Collaborate with Marketing, IT, Purchasing, Legal and Production Control.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Creo

Job description

Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Job Category

Engineering & Science

Position Summary

The Equipment Design Engineer will provide engineering services and support to the global commercial dealer systems operations through evaluation, analysis, design, upgrading and installation of equipment and process systems. The Equipment Design Engineer will provide support to the Equipment Assembly Plant to overcome quality, startup, or troubleshooting issues and implement design changes necessary to reduce cost to assemble and improve reliability of equipment designs. The teammate is familiar with equipment and processes used at franchise dealer locations. The Equipment Design Engineer should possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, and is familiar with risk reduction methods. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.

Responsibilities

Engineering Design & Development, Installation, and Support

• The Equipment Design Engineer will support Engineering teammates in the design and development of new equipment to be used by franchised dealers.
• Maintain current and legacy machine designs by releasing Engineering Change Orders that overcome component obsolescence and introduce design enhancements to existing equipment to ensure maximum uptime for franchised dealers.
• Utilizes advanced computer aided design tools such as AutoCAD and Creo to document machine design, track revision history, and product lifecycle management.
• Ensures standardization of mechanical designs and drawings is maintained throughout equipment lifecycle.
• Is aware of new technology to keep equipment and processes technologically advanced and leading the industry in product quality, productivity, and energy efficiency.

Project Management

• Plans, organizes, and controls small scale projects, is responsible for meeting project deliverables on cost, schedule and functionality.
• Works with manager to secure resources to achieve goals.
• Consulting & Communications
• Visits manufacturing plants and commercial franchised dealers to study processes.
• Represents the company in contacts with outside suppliers of services and equipment.
• Serves as technical resource to the Technical Services Group and Equipment Assembly and provides on sight support when required.

Maintenance of Expertise

• Maintains reference documents, technical work instructions and forms in the QMS system.
• Attends trade shows, technical seminars, and reads technical publications to keep abreast of the latest technology.
• Technology Development Uses experience, knowledge, and creativity to recommend ideas for technology development.
• Management of small scale dealer equipment development projects to meet time and budget commitments.
• Responsible for ongoing machine design support to overcome obsolescence, assembly issues, and incorporate required advancements in technology to ensure maximum uptime for franchised dealers manufacturing operations.
• Makes recommendations to Department Manager regarding appropriate goals for projects. Once project goals are established, acts under guidance of the Department Manager or Lead/Principal Engineer to achieve those goals. Collaboration with the electrical engineering team, project engineering team and the process engineering team to make decisions regarding machine hardware and manufacturing processes.
• Collaboration outside of engineering required with Marketing, TSG, IT, Purchasing, Legal, Logistics, Finance, and Production Control.

The Equipment Design Engineer will must be willing to travel domestically support franchised dealer locations with technical issues and equipment installations. The Equipment Design Engineer will must be willing to work extended hours as needed to achieve company goals.

Minimum Qualifications

Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they feel safe bringing their chosen version of themselves to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.