Product Development Engineer

Your career begins at Cone Drive Operations, a Timken company! Cone Drive is located in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan and boasts 100 years of success in the gearing industry. If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Cone Drive. Our associates make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.

The Product Development Engineer will utilize strong technical and analytical skills to design, develop, and launch new industrial gearbox products and components.

Responsibilities:

• Applies analytical skills, including handbook calculations and finite element analysis (FEA), to design commercial power transmission products, support product application engineering issues, implement engineering changes, and participate in value engineering activities
• Conducts product ratings calculations including thermal capacity and stress limit load capacity for assemblies and components using approved internal or industry standard tools and methods
• Develops product rating and selection programmed software solutions
• Creates, collects, and synthesizes design alternatives to produce innovative solutions that satisfy requirements of product specifications
• Solicits input from production, manufacturing engineering, and quality assurance throughout the design process to improve products and reduce costs
• Works with suppliers to develop cost-effective products based on both new part designs and application of commercial power transmission components
• Employs 3D CAD software to develop creative and accurate solutions for part and assembly designs
• Applies project management tools (timelines, action plans, design reviews, gate checklists) to lead cross functional teams
• Assists with product testing and leads efforts to solve design and manufacturing problems
• Documents intellectual property, produces catalog data, and creates technical support documents

Requirements:

• Minimum 1-year related experience
• Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering or related program
• Experience designing components and assemblies in 3D CAD (Solid Edge or similar)
• Experience in engineering analysis including use of FEA tools and interpreting data/results
• Background and interest in computer programming for developing applications and web app tools (C#; .NET; Next.js)

Preferred Experience:

• Good inter-department project management skills
• Background in heat transfer
• Noise and vibration/system dynamics analysis experience
• Hands-on experience in working with mechanical systems
• Hands-on experience in working with lab instrumentation

This position may require access to United States export controlled technical data ("CTD") and hardware under the Departments of US State (ITAR) and/or Commerce (EAR). Eligible candidates are; US Citizens, Green Card holders, Asylees or others eligible to receive US export license authorizations. Candidate must be authorized to work in the US.

All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Timken is a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion. Our expanding portfolio of next-generation solutions helps customers around the world improve efficiency, solve their toughest challenges, and push the boundaries of performance. We employ 19,000 people globally, operate from 45 countries, and posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2025.

We have been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies 6x by Newsweek and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® 15x by Ethisphere.

Why Choose Timken?

• Over a century of knowledge and innovation
• A culture of top performance
• A global, diverse environment
• Products that contribute to a sustainable world
• A conviction to improve communities around us
• Competitive salary and benefits

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