ILUS - Sr. Product Development Engineer

Daifuku Intralogistics America; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Vision/Dental

401k with match

Pet Insurance

FSA/HSA

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Daifuku Intralogistics America is seeking a seasoned engineer to lead the development of new automated material handling system designs. This role handles medium to large projects, mentors team members, and collaborates across engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams to drive reliable, scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has a BS in engineering and at least six years of material handling experience, with hands-on design work for conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6 years in material handling.
• Experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment.

Responsibilities

• Create manufacturable, scalable product designs for automated material handling systems.
• Lead work teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Ensure safety, reliability, and maintainability of products.
• Use modeling and simulation tools to validate designs.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, quality, and external vendors.

Skills

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

6 years material handling experience

Tools

3D CAD (SolidWorks)

2D AutoCAD

MS Office Suite

Job description

About Us

Daifuku Intralogistics America Corporation is a leading provider of intelligent material handling systems. With hundreds of engineers in-house, the company designs, manufactures, integrates, and installs a full spectrum of intralogistics solutions to meet client needs. These include leading-edge conveyor and sortation systems, voice- and light-directed order fulfillment equipment, a suite of warehouse controls & execution software, robotics, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS), mezzanines, and structures, all backed by critical round‑time service and support. If you want to join a team of industry leading experts who want to create an impact on the future of material handling solutions, we want to hear from you!

Job Summary

Leads development of new product designs for automated material handling systems. Works on medium and large projects. Leads work teams, oversees the work of others, and mentors less senior team members.

Responsibilities

• Creates product designs that are manufacturable, scalable, consistent, competive, and desireable to Wynright's customers
• Performs diverse, specialized and complex work involving significant accountability and decision-making
• Ensures that new products are safe, reliable and easy to maintain
• Follows engineering standards and uses modeling and simulation tools to prove or disprove designs
• Partners with the design team, internal customers, manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, and outside vendors to develop new solutions
• Maintains a progress schedule that meets project milestones
• Performs on-site testing and verification
• Travels up to 20%
• Conceives, develops, engineers, prototypes, tests, and revises products designs
• Analyzes data to identify trends in usage, cost, performance, and reliability
• Developes and executes test plans for concepts and prototypes
• Selects appropriate and cost-effective purchased parts
• Performs engineering calculations to ensure robust designs, including horsepower, stress, torque, deflection, torsion, overhung load, sortation rate, cycle rate, air consumption, and amperage draw
• Works with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve development and design issues
• Participates in new product scope specification
• Reviews product designs for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, and customer requirements and specifications
• Leads work teams, oversees the work of other team members, and mentors less-senior team members

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline, preferably Mechanical, Industrial, or Product Development, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 6 years of Material Handling-related experience
• Experience designing conveyor, sortation, or automation equipment is required
• Experience designing parts or equipment for volume manufacturing is required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Requirements

• Experienced with SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD and 2D AutoCAD
• Experienced with MS Office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Teams, etc.

Benefit Information

• Many great benefits to include Health/Vision/Dental/401k with match/Pet Insurance
• FSA/HSA
• Employee Assistance Program

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