Mechanical Engineer (High Volume Consumer Product Experience)
Job Tracking ID:  512246-422008
Location:   San Diego, CA
Job Type:  Full-Time/Regular
Date Updated:  June 11, 2013
 
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Job Description:

Mechanical engineer for new product innovation and current product continuous improvement activities. Will work independently and under the guidance of senior engineering staff. Previous high volume consumer product or action sports equipment experience desired. Design experience should include: plastic injection molding, over-molding, converting, die-cutting, and soft goods manufacturing. Environmental robustness, acoustics, and/or waterproof equipment design experience desirable. Analytic skills to include static and dynamic stress analysis, mechanism design, and tolerance analysis. Trouble-shooting skills for root cause failure analysis and formulate corrective action plans. Previous hands-on prototype building/testing experience preferred. Out-of-box thinking to innovate designs for cost reduction through creativity and awareness of state-of-the-art design and manufacturing technologies. Must be able to generate complete detail and assembly drawings in Solidworks.
The successful candidate for this position must have a high degree of personal motivation, initiative, intellectual curiosity, and solid communication skills. Should be detail oriented and well organized. Must be comfortable working in a fast growth, entrepreneurial environment.

 

Experience and Skills:

Required Experience:

  • Project Coordination: Ability to plan and estimate basic engineering development tasks including design, prototype fabrication, testing and documentation.
  • Design Innovation: Ability to develop feasible designs from rough sketches and concepts with minimum supervision.
  • Design Development: Work with vendors to fabricate prototypes and conduct engineering tests. Work with Production to ensure smooth implementation of design changes.
  • Cost Reduction: Provide proposal input for cost reduction design alternatives and estimate required man-hours for design changes, prototype/testing costs and schedule forecasts.
  • Change Orders: Generate Engineering Change Orders and coordinate implementation tasks with Production and Marketing organizations.
  • RGA Support: Assist in the Returned Goods testing process and provide in-depth failure analysis, documentation and reporting to upper management/customers as required.

CORE COMPETENCIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Proficient with CAD (SolidWorks).
  • Capable of making and checking detail and layout drawings.
  • Familiar with DFA/DFM for commercial, low-cost, high volume products.
  • Detailed failure analysis for root cause investigations.
  • Experience with injection molding and materials converting.
  • Strong communication skills - both verbal and written.
  • Verbal and writing proficiency in English.
  • Team player requiring minimal supervision.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering required. A minimum of five (5) to seven (7) years experience in new product development. Production or manufacturing engineering experience a plus. Must be a creative problem solver able to demonstrate a history of personal initiative, and have the ability to work in early stage cross-functional teams, with strong communication skills.

Additional Information:
Job Level:   Mid Career (2+ years)
Number of Openings:   1
Years of Experience:   5 - 7 Years
Level of Education:   BA/BS
Starting Date :   ASAP