Product Development Engineer

Rfc Llc - Dba Roll Forming Corporation; Shelbyville (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision and dental coverage

Life and disability insurance

401(k) plan with match

Paid time off (vacation, personal, and

Profit-sharing bonus

Leadership training opportunities

Volunteer program (TogetherWeCare)

Job summary

voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation is seeking a Product Development Engineer to transform customer ideas into production-ready solutions. You will translate needs into concepts, assess feasibility, and collaborate across teams to move from design to validation and commercialization.

Open levels include Engineer I–III, offering growth through design reviews, trials, and launch activities within a manufacturing context in Shelbyville, KY.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Knowledge of product design, development, and validation.
• Reading and developing technical drawings with GD&T understanding.
• Experience with 2D/3D CAD tools (AutoCAD, Inventor, CATIA).
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs into engineering requirements and development plans.
• Evaluate materials, roll forming processes, tooling, tolerances and capabilities.
• Lead or support development activities from design through launch.
• Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, QA, Supply Chain and suppliers.
• Contribute to customer meetings, proposals and commercialization plans.
• Develop manufacturing cost estimates covering labor, tooling, time, and materials.
• Balance value, manufacturability, cost, timing, quality, and safety on schedules.

Skills

Product design & development

GD&T knowledge

Technical drawings & specs

CAD software proficiency

Analytical thinking

Communication & collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Inventor

CATIA

Job description

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Corporate Solutions Development Regular Full-Time Shelbyville, KY, US 1 Attachments

Turn Customer Ideas into Production-Ready Solutions

Bring your engineering skills to voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation and help develop new manufacturing business from the first customer conversation through production launch. As a Product Development Engineer, you will translate customer needs into practical concepts, evaluate product and process feasibility, and collaborate across teams to bring solutions through design, validation, and commercialization. Whether you are beginning your engineering career or bringing advanced technical expertise, this role offers opportunities to contribute at the Engineer I, II, or III level based on demonstrated capability and scope—not years of experience alone.

What You’ll Do

• Translate customer and business needs into engineering requirements, product concepts, drawings, specifications, and development plans.
• Evaluate materials, roll forming processes, tooling, equipment, tolerances, and manufacturing capabilities to determine technical feasibility.
• Support or lead development activities—from design reviews and prototype or tooling development through trials, validation, launch, and handoff to internal teams.
• Partner with Sales, Estimating, Engineering, Project Management, Quality, Supply Chain, Tooling, Manufacturing Operations, suppliers, and global voestalpine colleagues.
• Participate in customer meetings, explain technical capabilities, present concepts, and support proposals and commercialization plans.
• Develop manufacturing cost estimates covering labor, machine time, tooling, capital equipment, materials, scrap, outside processing, packaging, quality, and launch requirements; support quote reviews and technical risk assessments.
• Balance customer value, manufacturability, cost, timing, quality, maintainability, and safety while managing assigned schedules, risks, documentation, and expenditures.
• Resolve design and trial issues, capture lessons learned, and improve engineering standards and development practices.

What You’ll Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering field from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience providing the required technical capability.
• Knowledge of product design and development, engineering problem solving, design reviews, technical documentation, validation, and change control.
• An understanding of materials, roll forming or comparable manufacturing processes, tooling, high-volume production, tolerances, and production constraints.
• The ability to read and develop technical drawings and specifications, with working knowledge of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) and metrology.
• Hands-on experience with AutoCAD, Inventor, CATIA, or comparable 2D/3D CAD software, plus proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Strong analytical, communication, relationship-building, and decision-making skills, with the ability to connect technical solutions to customer value and business needs.

Work Authorization Requirement: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. RFC is not able to sponsor employment visas for this position.

Experience and Level Placement

• Engineer I: Entry level to 2 years of related engineering or technical development experience. Relevant co-op, internship, research, or hands-on manufacturing experience may be considered. Contribute to customer meetings, product trials, data collection, root‑cause investigation, and launch activities.
• Engineer II: Typically 3 or more years of related experience, including ownership of product, design, tooling, process, or manufacturing development work through implementation or launch. Independently lead moderately complex projects or major workstreams and mentor less experienced team members.
• Engineer III: Typically 6 or more years of progressively responsible related experience, including leadership of complex cross‑functional development, commercialization, strategic technical, or customer‑facing initiatives. Guide complex programs, support opportunity strategy, and provide technical direction and coaching without necessarily having direct supervisory responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in metal manufacturing, roll forming, tooling, high‑volume production, product launch, technical sales, or project engineering.
• Experience with finite element analysis (FEA) software and Mastercam or comparable CAM tools.
• A master’s degree in Engineering or Business Administration.
• Training or certification in project management, Design for Manufacturability, GD&T, FEA, Lean, or Six Sigma.

This role combines office‑based engineering work, time in manufacturing facilities, and occasional travel. Manufacturing areas may involve moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and loud noise. Compliance with established safety policies and procedures is expected. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Ready to turn engineering concepts into manufacturing solutions? Bring your technical expertise, curiosity, and collaborative approach to the Product Development Engineering team at voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation.

Who We Are

voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation, or RFC as we call it, supplies custom roll formed metal components into several industries including Aerospace, Construction, Material Handling, Off‑Highway, Office Furniture, Solar and Transportation. In 2000, Roll Forming Corporation was acquired by globally leading technology group voestalpine AG and became part of the Metal Forming, Tubes and Sections division. Today, voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation has seven production facilities across three states with five facilities and headquarters located in Shelby County, Kentucky and one facility each in Pennsylvania and Indiana.

What We Offer You

• Several great benefit plans, including multiple health insurance options, vision, dental, life, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, health‑saving accounts, or flexible spending account
• Paid time off the first year including vacation, personal and sick time
• 401K or 401K Roth up to 6% Match
• Quarterly Profit‑Sharing Bonus
• Leadership training opportunities
• TogetherWeCare, a philanthropic volunteer program that allows employees to support their community while on company time
• Countdown to Zero, a global environmental impact initiative that strives to make our work environment more efficient and environmentally friendly.

Learn more at www.rfcorp.com/careers/life-at-rfc.