Job Info
Job Summary:
This position will join our new product development group will help drive all aspects of the development process - conception, ideation, design, detailed engineering, tooling, product validation and production start. Our mission is to transform an idea into products on time, on cost, and with exceptional quality of execution. This is a challenging engineering position - our team is staffed with individuals who enjoy solving complex problems.
This position will join one of our project teams (typically 2-4 engineers), partnering closely with peers in project management, marketing, industrial design, usability, and other related disciplines - strong collaboration skills and the ability to flourish in a team environment is required. Some domestic and international travel (less than 10%) will be expected.
Job Responsibilities:
Product Engineering - 40%
- Works with peers in marketing, design, usability, quality, and manufacturing to ensure all stakeholder needs are met.
- Supports costing and capital expenditure analysis activities. Identifies cost and risks at the component and sub-assembly level to meet defined cost targets.
- Understands and applies federal, industry and internal standards and ensures products meet safety, compliance and performance requirements.
- Supports tooling development and pre-production sample builds.
Design Engineering - 30%
- Partners with industrial designers to ensure safety, product performance and manufacturing needs are met.
- Recommends architecture of products and is accountable for a subset of the system to ensure robust end-product designs.
- Generates Computer Aided Design (CAD) models of parts and assemblies and uses CAE software to optimize them for production.
- Works with partners in manufacturing to refine the product design and optimize it for manufacturing.
- Use our state-of-the-art RP capability to build prototypes for evaluation and testing.
Product Validation - 30%
- Contributes to validation test plan development
- Supports pre-production crash testing in both internal and external test labs
- Analyzes test results to understand product performance and implements enhancements
- Fabricates prototype samples for testing using basic hand, power and bench tools.
Required Qualifications/Skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or similar disciplines.
- 5-8 years of product development or product design engineering experience
- Extensive experience with 3D CAD modeling (Creo Preferred)
- Extensive experience with plastic injection molding
- Strong working knowledge of mechanical engineering fundamentals: static analysis, dynamic analysis, deformable bodies, mechanism design
- Strong problem-solving skills and methodologies
- Comfort using basic hand, power and bench tools to fabricate prototypes and modify test samples
- Strong communication, interpersonal, writing, planning, and presentation skills
Desired Qualifications/Skills:
- Product development experience (Consumer products preferred)
- Design for sheet metal and tubing experience
- Product validation and verification activities experience
- Experience with FEA software for structural analysis
- Experience with rapid prototyping techniques and applications
Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.
California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Company Profile:
Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.
Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.
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