Toy Product Development Engineer: Design & Cost

Strottman; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Strottman in Atlanta seeks an experienced Product Development Engineer to drive design, cost, and manufacturability for toy products. You will manage multi-discipline programs with teams in the U.S. and Asia, delivering prototypes and cost-optimized concepts.

The role requires hands-on expertise in plastics design, injection molding, mechanism design, and SolidWorks, plus strong communication to align with Creative, Account, and Manufacturing partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or similar.
• At least 5+ years in project management, product design and development, preferably in a toy company.
• Experience in plastics part design, injection molding manufacturing, and mechanism design is required.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills to manage timelines.
• Ability to interface across global teams including Asia office.

Responsibilities

• Develops products ensuring feasibility of concepts for design, cost, manufacturability, and timing.
• Creates and maintains product specs with BOM, packaging, costing, and requirements.
• Provides direction to the Hong Kong Team and Asia engineering staff with sketches and specs.
• Evaluates vendor quotations and pursues cost reduction ideas.
• Maintains cost sheets and margin trackers for programs.
• Reviews production samples for manufacturability, function, safety, and aesthetics.
• Issues purchase orders and reconciles invoices against POs.
• Collaborates across multiple teams to meet milestones and adjust plans as needed.
• Builds team relationships and balances project interests to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Project management

Product design

Plastics design

Injection molding

Mechanism design

Organizational skills

Communication skills

MS Excel

VBA

Smartsheet

SolidWorks

3D modeling

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

Smartsheet

VBA

MS Excel

Job description

Strottman in Atlanta seeks an experienced Product Development Engineer to drive design, cost, and manufacturability for toy products. You will manage multi-discipline programs with teams in the U.S. and Asia, delivering prototypes and cost-optimized concepts.

The role requires hands-on expertise in plastics design, injection molding, mechanism design, and SolidWorks, plus strong communication to align with Creative, Account, and Manufacturing partners.