Custom Design Engineer

Mission & Values

At Skyline Displays, our mission-inspiring people to create impactful experiences - guides every decision we make, from how we serve our clients to how we collaborate as a team. We believe that success is built on trust, and we foster that trust by leading with integrity, communicating transparently, and following through on our commitments. We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and innovation, and we celebrate our shared achievements along the way.

Our culture is grounded in care-for our clients, our colleagues, and the world around us. We work as one winning team, aligned by a shared vision and a deep respect for each other's contributions. Above all, we place strong value on our client relationships, striving to exceed expectations and deliver solutions that make a lasting impact.

Summary

Custom Design Engineer provides estimates for modified Skyline products, custom manufactured products, and outsourced products for our Solutions Teams and for our Sales Representatives. Estimated products are typically complex and non-Skyline. The Custom Design Engineer will research, design, and engineer the product before estimating. The Custom Design Engineer will also provide structural reviews on exhibit designs for DIY and Solutions Teams.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Evaluate custom applications and determine the necessary modifications of standard Skyline products to solve the application.
• Utilize CAD to review the exhibit design and determine the details required for the custom application.
• Evaluate complex custom applications and design a non-Skyline solution to include metal fabrication, wood fabrication, and outsourced materials. Inventing a new product is often necessary.
• Utilize CAD to create the solutions for custom applications and to communicate the designs to our customer's and to production.
• Review custom applications with production departments and/or custom estimators to confirm feasibility.
• Identify structural concerns and develop a solution.
• Assist others with structural reviews of exhibits.
• Communicate with sales reps, dealer office administrators and Project Estimators regarding questions and solutions on estimate requests.
• Support sales, marketing, customer service, and production departments by researching and providing answers to product related questions when necessary.
• Review the custom items cost and determine the wholesale price by applying the appropriate mark up.
• Compare the price of customized products to standard and competitors' products and price the custom item accordingly.
• Research any outsourced materials/products needed to create the solution and include them in the bill of materials with cost and vendor details.
• Determine packaging for custom elements if required.
• Determine the weight of the custom product.
• Provide sketches and custom product details to CAD for product drawings.
• Review and approve drawings, prints, and programs used to create the custom product.
• Create cost analysis and lead time for large quantity custom products and the part numbers required for ordering.
• Assist Manufacturing Engineering with a production plan for large quantity custom products.
• Identify structural concerns and resolve them for DIY and Solutions teams.
• Perform center of gravity and tip angle calculations to determine the structural integrity of exhibit designs.
• Provide Skyline reviewed structural approvals for stable exhibit designs.
• Utilize vendor resources to provide Professional Engineer reviewed approvals for exhibit designs.
• Main resource for communications with vendors in the Vendor Alliance Program including the pricing and availability of the vendors' products and services.

Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Analytical and mathematical skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes/environment.
• Organization and time management skills.
• Ability to handle multiple-tasks/requests.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and with others in a team environment.

Minimum Education/Certification

• 4 year engineering degree.

Minimum Experience

• 1 year experience with CAD software.
• Vendor research or outsourcing experience preferred.
• 1 year of product design experience.
• Strong computer skills to include Word, Excel and Visual Manufacturing system or similar MRP application.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Position is sedentary in nature, occasional standing and bending throughout the day.