Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Applies creative thinking, technical analysis, and project management skills to contribute to the innovation objectives determined by management and the innovation team.
- Ensures that all existing and new innovation products meet all design, regulatory, and quality standards and specifications.
- Trains and develops essential technical personnel.
- Exercises good project management techniques by providing progress updates of the various projects as well as appropriate stakeholder management for accountability.
- Works with Quality Control Engineer on product and process quality standards.
- Designs and generates product models and drawings that meet GF design guidelines.
- Follows the defined innovation process for GF.
- Contributes to the performance of the R&D team by completing assigned tasks and special projects.
- Gathers data by assembling, installing, and testing products, compounds, and components for defined metrics.
- Performs comparisons and analyses of results to contribute to technical and product innovation.
- Compiles and reports data from personal and team evaluations.
- Maintains, operates, and calibrates laboratory equipment, including necessary supplies.
- Keeps accurate records in the form of a laboratory notebook and make sure records are filed correctly so new advances can be patented as necessary.
- Ensures that all operations adhere to both company and government regulations.
- Develops a thorough understanding of product applications, performance, quality standards, testing, and installation.
- Supports production and product management engineers on new and existing products.
- Writes basic test protocols, execute testing, record data, and write summary reports.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to work well in a dynamic and demanding environment, interfacing with a wide variety of people and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to design products to regulatory standards and generate models and technical drawings
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to work well with others.
- Proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Computer modeling skills in NX, AutoCAD, and SolidWorks
- Ability to use measurement equipment to include calipers, micrometers, etc.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering field (preferably mechanical, electrical, industrial, or materials)
- Minimum of 3-4 years of research and development experience or equivalent
- Project management experience a plus.
- Experience with various mechanical and material analytical test equipment.
Working Conditions / Physical Requirements:
- Associate exposed to general production machine noise levels.
- Exposure to fumes.
- Exposure to seasonal temperature extremes.
- Exposure to hazards such as electrical and moving mechanical parts.
- Standing, walking, sitting, reaching, pushing, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing.
- Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and 20 feet or more with the ability to judge depth and space relationships and bring object into sharp focus.
- Average work-exert up to 60 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or negligible amount of force constantly.
- Required to lift up to 50 lbs. and move odd shaped objects (desks, tables, etc.).
- Required some overhead lifting up to 40lbs objects (cardboard boxes, trash bags, odd shaped items, etc.).
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