Senior Product Engineer

Job Title: Senior Product Engineer

Job location: Oxford, CT

Job Type: Fulltime (with benefits)

Job Description:-

This position is responsible for reviewing, planning and monitoring incoming Aerospace special
product design requirements and providing technical support, product development and
assistance both internally and externally.

Principal Responsibilities
1. Responsible for the conceptual design engineering of new products, special products
and contributing to the improvement of existing products and manufacturing methods
to meet customer demands.
2. Technical consultant on product design, application and service problems, quality
deviations and material and parts substitution. Assists in the technical education of sales
trainees and personnel of other departments.
3. Functions as an engineering consultant to manufacturing on problems related to the
manufacture of the company's products.
4. Provides product design requirements to product designers assigned to specific projects
and assures that all detailed process step drawings are in conformance to the
requirements and technical specifications.
5. Provide technical support to the Sales force in the areas of bearing design, design
improvements, customer support, production support and review of new applications.
6. Works with customers to resolve technical problems and makes technical presentations
with the Sales Engineers at target accounts.
7. Review of new applications and provide technical solutions to ensure product
performance.
8. Establishes bearing testing requirements and test plans and reports test results to
customers to gain product approval.
9. Responsible for establishing new products into the MRP AS400 system and creating the
associated Bill-of-Material.
10. Responsible for approving new product designs and releasing designs to manufacturing
11. Supports lean enterprise activities in support of API Plant objectives.
12. May train other less senior Product Engineers.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering field and 5 years of
experience in design drafting, mechanical design or manufacturing methods and/or related
engineering field in a manufacturing environment or any combination of experience, education
and training which would provide the level of knowledge, skill and ability required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
a. Bearing design principles and practices
b. Mechanical design principles and practices
c. Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
d. Company products and manufacturing processes
e. ITAR Regulations
f. Familiarity with and ability to interpret customer and industry standards and
specifications.
g. Lean Enterprise methods
h. Solid Modeling CAD Software
i. Computer skills
j. Familiarity with various operating systems
k. Knowledge of bearing test lab equipment and capabilities
l. Bearing failure evaluation and analysis
m. Able to analyze data to make decisions relative to product performance and
manufacturing.
n. Able to create and make technical presentations
o. Communicate effectively, orally and in writing