Product / Tooling Engineer

About the Company

Perko, Inc. is a decades long manufacturer of marine hardware and accessories located in Miami, Florida.

About the Role

Drive the design efforts of product development projects for both new and existing product while also providing technical support to the Tool Room on tooling designs. Typical support tasks include, but are not limited to: some new designs and improvements to existing tools, tool and product revisions to accommodate engineering changes and potentially new product design. Utilize both creative and technical design competencies to progressively develop conceptual product, sketches, models, and coordinate functional prototypes for testing.

Responsibilities

• Effectively communicate to those on all levels of the organization.
• Works and collaborates with other departments and functional groups in the design, evaluation and improvement of tools, methods, and processes within the company.
• Execute projects in a timely manner, resolving or escalating barriers as needed.
• Utilize CAD to create new, modify existing, or reverse engineer 3D models of product and/or tooling.
• Develops creative initial product design concepts as outputs of assigned product ideation requests originating from sales & marketing.
• Responsible for the output of drawings and CAD designs and/or hand sketches, 3D renderings and 3D printer models.
• May have responsibility for testing and validation of design.
• Prepare Bill of Materials and Engineering Changes.
• Coordinate the release of part prints and revisions, tool designs, tool design modifications, and/or tool design reviews.
• Responsible for tooling design.
• Develop and implements the release of engineering changes and tool modifications to tools already in production.

Required Skills

• Strong mechanical design skills with an ability to read and layout mechanical drawings.
• 2D and 3D design capabilities of Mechanism and Assembly design.
• Strong understanding in manufacturability of designs and material selection for Marine related products.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Prototyping techniques such as 3D printing.
• Experience in managing the build process of molds, dies and tool design.
• Proficient in CAD software is required with knowledge of 3D Solid Modeling; (Solidworks and/or Mastercam experience preferred.)
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint).

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience in a metal-forming manufacturing environment a bonus.
• Design experience in marine environment a plus.
• Solidworks and/or Mastercam experience preferred.