Product Designer

In this role, you will:

• Key member of New Product Development team.
• Lead design efforts in the development and enhancement of fenestration systems.
• Collaborate with other Product Designers in their assigned projects.
• Develop conceptual designs, prototypes, and final product engineering documentation.
• Assist with the development of Technical Brief(s) to assure compliance to project definitions.
• Coordinate the engineering support documentation with the Drafting team.
• Collaborate with the Technical Authors and Illustrators in the development of technical literature documentation (Installation Instructions and other customer facing documentation).
• Good verbal communication skills (need to be able to communicate within the team).
• Create and generate engineering change orders.
• Collaborate with product manufacturing, procurement, and outside suppliers.
• Participate and oversee test unit installation and product testing (hands-on which could include but not limited to kneeling, squatting, reaching overhead, pushing, pulling, and lifting-up to 40lbs and using a ladder). Requirement to adhere to the company EHS policy.
• Expected overnight travel requirement 25 to 30%. (This could be for several weeks).
• Collaborate with product manufacturing and institute Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles.

Also note:

• Competency modeling in Inventor and drafting in AutoCAD.
• Experience creating new products based on market needs, systems design, and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work on projects with several unknown elements and different aspects of conceptual design.
• Capacity to analyze and develop solutions for technical problems.
• Ability to estimate the design effort for specific tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with other Designers, Drafters and Technical Authors.
• Ability to work based on industry engineering standards, company specific work instructions and department procedures.
• Proven design creativity record.