Product Engineer - Tailored Solutions
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Job Summary
We are currently looking for a Product Engineer to join our Tailored Solutions team on-site in Holland, MI.
Tailored Solutions (TS) is a strategic enabler for Haworth that unlocks sales volume that would otherwise not be available. About 12% of North American sales volumes comes through Tailored Solutions, and the prevailing conventional wisdom is that TS sales “pull through” an equivalent amount of standard product sales, which means we influence about 25% of the overall sales volume. We work in a fast paced and dynamic environment with a variety of dealers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners across a wide range of products. In this role, the member will execute designs (including CAD and BOM deliverables) for newly ordered Tailored Solutions. This fast pace and wide variety differentiate this role from more traditional engineering design roles within a standard product engineering function.
This position is directly supporting our Architectural Products (Walls) business unit. In this role, the member will respond to multiple requests per day for non-standard products, evaluate their feasibility, determine costs, and provide responses in support of project bids in a quick timeframe. This role will also support our Engineering Designer members to ensure high quality outputs that meet the design intent of the external customers. Eventually this member would be cross-trained to be able to execute the Engineering Design role for Architectural Products (Walls) Tailored Solutions.
Job Responsibilities
- Performs investigation into materials, processes, and products assigned by management team.
- Assists senior engineers by utilizing engineering principles to design new products.
- Assists senior engineers in investigation of materials. Determines proper material selection by performing static and dynamic engineering calculations with aid of computer-aided design (CAD), personal computers (PC), and calculators.
- Analyzes material costs by to determine material mass and volume properties. Applies calculated data to determine total product material costs.
- Assists senior engineers with investigation of processes. Works with Manufacturing Engineering to determine best design to minimize labor and overhead costs.
- Works with Engineering Designers to review form, fit, and function of product designs by utilizing CAD and PCs.
- Develops engineering detail and assembly documentation to support tooling quotations, manufacturing processes, and cost analysis for final product implementation.
- Requests prototypes from outside suppliers, manufacturing, or model shop to be used for engineering performance and reliability testing.
- Assembles prototype product using power and hand tools.
- Performs other duties within scope as assigned.
- Must be able to perform all essential job function with/without accommodation.
- Ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software, and tools used in Haworth office environment.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in engineering or equivalent in relevant field of study
- Education Equivalency: Associate Degree plus 2 years related exp OR 4 years of additional engineering experience
- Military Equivalency: https://www.mynextmove.org/vets/find/military
- Applicant must possess an unrestricted right to work in the US to be eligible for the position.
- Ability to work and commute onsite daily to our headquarters in Holland, MI.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 or more years of product engineering experience.
- Product development in commercial interiors
- Experience with modular wall systems.
- Experience working with suppliers - requesting quotes, developing custom solutions, etc.
- Experience working with highly configured product (and configuration systems, especially SAP)
- Demonstrated working knowledge of parametric 3D modeling CAD software (such as PTC CREO, SolidWorks, or Autodesk Inventor)
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