Product Development Engineer

Engineering Resource Group; Ridgewood (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineering Resource Group is seeking a Product Development Engineer to take customer concepts from design through prototype and into production for a manufacturer of custom-engineered products.

You will lead the engineering side of NPI projects, review drawings for manufacturability, build prototypes with customers, and drive transfer to production while developing manufacturing processes and ensuring quality compliance.

Qualifications

• BS Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering side of new product introduction (NPI) projects with cross-functional internal teams.
• Review customer drawings and tolerances and provide design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback.
• Build prototypes with customers and support transfer of validated products from R&D into production.
• Develop and validate manufacturing processes for NPI and drive R&D-based process improvements.
• Perform data analysis and process capability studies and present results to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with customer-driven quality requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact, internally and externally.
• Travel to trade shows and customer sites for technical presentations, on-site support and lead follow-up.

Skills

Data analysis

Cp/Cpk analysis

GD&T

DFM

NPI experience

Prototyping

Production transfer

Cross-functional

Process validation

Education

BS Mechanical Engineering

Tools

GD&T tools

Job description

• Permanent position for a Product Development Engineer to take customer concepts from design through prototype and into production for a manufacturer of custom-engineered products.
• Responsible for leading the engineering side of new product introduction (NPI) projects with cross-functional internal teams.
• Review customer drawings and tolerances and provide design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback.
• Build prototypes with customers and support transfer of validated products from R&D into production.
• Develop and validate manufacturing processes for NPI and drive R&D-based process improvements.
• Perform data analysis and process capability studies and present results to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with customer-driven quality requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact, internally and externally.
• Travel to trade shows and customer sites for technical presentations, on-site support and lead follow-up.
• BS Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Multidisciplinary engineering background with working knowledge of the full product lifecycle, concept through production.
• Experience with NPI, prototyping and transfer to production.
• Experience with drawing interpretation, tolerance analysis (GD&T) and DFM.
• Experience with process validation and statistical capability analysis (Cp/Cpk).
• Ability to travel for trade shows and customer visits.
• Medical device industry experience preferred.