Senior Systems Engineer (Product Development)

Role : Senior Systems Engineer ( Consumer Products)

Duration :: Permanent

Location :: 53 South Ave, Burlington, MA 01803

Description ::

The Senior Systems Engineer will join the Client’s Global Product Team to deliver best in class beverage systems. In this position you will be the technical product owner of a cross functional team ensuring the product will deliver all features, functionality, and stakeholder requirements while hitting program cost and schedule targets. This position is located in our Burlington, MA location and offers a flexible hybrid work schedule with a minimum of 3 days per week on site required and flexibility to facilitate conversations with our teams across multiple time zones. Strong communication skills are required as this position will partner closely with multiple functions within the organization to align on project goals.

Key Responsibilities ::

• Help to translate consumer and stakeholder needs into product requirements, manage requirement change process, and decompose system level requirements to subsystems, modules, and components.  
• Create system architectures that will deliver product features and functionality.
• Cascade subsystem requirements to platform owners and manage interfaces between subsystems. 
• Identify and charter R&D efforts for all new innovations required to meet program goals. Engage external partners when needed to execute these programs. 
• Assist with learning plan development and prioritization to drive decision making at schedule intervals. 
• Assist with risk analysis mitigation, and validation plans. 
• Lead teams through engineering development using LAMDA/DAMAICor similar systematic tools. 
• Make data driven decisions using the Six Sigma toolbox and coach others in the use of six sigma tools and methods. 
• Have a hands on approach with prototyping and testing. 
• Communicate development progress to senior leadership.
• The Senior Systems Engineer is required to be hands on with prototypes and testing during development.
• Support organizational continuous improvement projects to evolve our ways of working. 

Requirements ::

• MS or BS in Engineering with 10 years of engineering experience preferably in high volume consumer product development. 
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification 
• Experience using statistical software tools like JMP, Minitab, or R 
• Expert level 3D modeling experience (Solidworks preferred). 
• General understanding of systems modeling and finite element methods.
• A breadth of understanding of all engineering disciplines with strong depth in one or more. 
• Experience leading DFMEA activities and creating validation plans. 
• Proven experience building prototypes, test fixtures, and running experiments. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in person at the Burlington, MA location, a minimum of 3 days per week.
• 10-20% International travel in 2 week intervals.