SUMMARY: Provide conceptual design, mechanical design, prototyping supervision and testing of new products.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Development
Seek & define Applications/Customer design requirements in concept phase
Provide technical support to marketing in the preparation of New Product Business Opportunity Statements
Design highly reliable electro-mechanical products using computer aided design 3d Modeling computer system.
Participate in design reviews throughout the Product Development Process (PDP)
As required, serve as the leader of cross functional Product Development Teams (PDT) during the development of new Products
Work to performance and cost/volume targets.
Conduct tolerance analysis and finite element material properties analysis
Generate detailed drawings to VPC standards using GTD as appropriate.
Design experiments / test plans to assure compliance to reliability requirements.
Develop test plans and perform testing or over-see technicians in testing.
Document or support the documentation of test results
Use Design for Manufacturability Methods to work with suppliers, VPC manufacturing and other teams to achieve desired results.
Sustain Engineering Efforts
Use applications/product knowledge to:
Serve as consultant for new product requests to filter out rejects, determine the most feasible way to provide a quality quote in the least amount of time.
Use PDP methods mentioned above to design complex product extensions of existing products.
Serve as consultant to provide high level applications engineering support to customers.
Use engineering analysis to resolve customer application issues
Use engineering analysis to resolve customer quality issues on legacy product.
Provide support with Eng. Change Notice (ECN) process
Lead cost reduction efforts for legacy products.
Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's Degree (BA) from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering and training in the design and testing of small, high reliability electromechanical devices.
5 years of CAD experience – Solidworks preferred. Familiarity with internet software, e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, LabVIEW, ANSYS HFSS and Altium PCB Design software a plus.
Familiarity with Digital Serial Analyzers (DSA), Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) and other electrical test equipment and various manufacturing processes preferred.
