What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Engineer position at igus Inc.?
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
As a Project Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design/ configure ready-to-install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to an application or machine. You will demonstrate your organizational talent in coordinating and prioritizing a number of simultaneous projects in different statuses. Smart and creative process consulting for clients is part of what you do to reduce their costs and/or improve their technology. With communication skills, you lead price negotiations, new product introduction, manufacturing, and customer support.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a Project Engineer you will be responsible for our business area of readychain® and readycable®. Together with customers, you design/ configure ready-to-install energy chain systems that are individually tailored to an application or machine. You will demonstrate your organizational talent in coordinating and prioritizing a number of simultaneous projects in different statuses. Smart and creative process consulting for clients is part of what you do to reduce their costs and/or improve their technology. With communication skills, you lead price negotiations, new product introduction, manufacturing, and customer support.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with configuration/ design of readychain® and readycable® products.
- Perform detailed review of customer drawings to identify best manufacturing approach with cost-effective component selection.
- Interfacing with the electronics and material suppliers, and internally with sales, as required to solicit competitive material quotes.
- Calculate material and labor cost, tooling and test requirements, and pricing in support of product quotation requests.
- Develop/ document assembly drawings and manufacturing processes.
- Coordinate with multiple teams including: New Product Introduction, First Article builds, and First Article Inspections.
- Communicate with sales and/ or customers to ensure their technical needs are being met.
- Interact with quality, sales, and/ or customers with product quality issues to find the best solution moving forward.
- Provide support to the manufacturing teams by resolving technical issues related to the product, assembly process, and tooling.
- Work closely with Process Engineering for continuous improvement of techniques, process documentation, tooling, assembly aids, etc.
- Coordinate and execute Engineering Change Orders, Waiver/ Deviations, and Documentation Change Orders with assistance from multiple Operations Teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
- Knowledge of wire harnessing processes, tooling and industry standards.
- Strong technical skills: able to present technical concepts; provide customers with hands-on technique using our products.
- Self-starter; motivated, team focused and results driven.
- Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills.
- Familiar with best manufacturing and assembly practices/ techniques.
- Familiar with Item Master and Bill of Materials.
- Requires demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing engineering discipline, theories, practices and principles.
- Requires knowledge necessary to perform the job function such as an understanding of the engineering change order process, product development process, value engineering etc.
- Strong Product technology, change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, personal effectiveness, team skills, and quality.
- Knowledge of CAD tools.
- Requires additional knowledge of systems and software necessary such as MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Competitive base salary with ongoing growth opportunities
- Complete benefits package:
- Co. paid HSA medical plan
- Co. paid Dental
- Co. paid Life
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Retirement with Company contributions
- 20 Paid Time Off days per year, plus 9 holidays
- Subsidized lunch on-site
