| Location | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Knowledge and practice of Hutchinson's Health, Safety, and Environmental policies, procedures, and requirements.
Detailed development of a product or system to meet customer's functional and cost requirements. Fully utilizing physical test and analytical methods to support design direction.
Responsible for detailed design, establishing prints and specifications, developing prototypes, and specifying tests
Direct FEA workflow to produce a robust design that meets the customer's functional and reliability requirements.
Lead Design for Manufacturing (DFM) process on all projects from RFQ to Production Launch to insure design robustness meets production needs.
To encourage applied research and development with the engineering team and to foster product and process innovation.
To coach and develop the engineering skills of Engineers and Technicians within the team.
To cooperatively work with the Application Team Leader to develop team objectives and goals and to jointly manage the team to achieve these goals.
Participates in the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) team including the review of issues related to: timing, customer requirements, components, suppliers, molds, production processes, product costs, etc.
Collaborate with colleagues in other regions to benchmark latest development and industry trends and share technical product knowledge.
Conduct competitive benchmarking on targeted market segments following market trends.
Continuously evaluates designs, manufacturing processes and applies value analysis to increase robustness, reduce material and labor costs while also improving product quality.
The Senior PDE is the main line of technical communication with the customer, Hutchinson sales and with other Hutchinson departments.
Responsible for completing tasks of all lower position levels and tasks assigned by Management.
Other duties as assigned.
Participates in, understands, supports, and adheres to all Safety and Quality policies and requirements.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE