Product Design Engineer - Technical Service Engineer

We are actively searching for a Product Design Engineer (Technical Service Engineer) with Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) or Plastics experience to liaison between our products and clients. In this role the Product Design Engineer will have a mechanical engineering background such as Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace / Automotive / Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Precision Engineering and Design or others and will work directly with our client in the Automotive, Home Appliance or Consumer product industries. This is not a remote position and is based in our new Customer Solutions Center in Ravennah, OH.

What You’ll Be Doing

Essential Functions (include but are not limited to):

Responsibilities include:

• Research and develop the advanced product design process and technology such as design optimization, plastic assembly design, Computer Aided Engineering (Structural, Vibration, heat flow/deformation, flow analysis), advance material testing and numerical analysis (ex. High strain rate, fatigue, creep, residual stress, etc), Metal & PC/ABS replacement design, Plastic life cycle assessments, fractography, Product assessment tools & methods, Benchmarking & Reverse engineering, root cause analysis, etc.
• Communicate with customers and feedback the solution on / off line
• Investigate, research the new technology and find practical solutions for customers
• Design the experiments, testing methods, CAE (ABAQUS,  ANSYIS, LS-Dyna), Pre & Post Process (Hyperworks, CATIA) and schedule, implement it in time
• Strong background in problem solving, using multiple analytical procedures to identify and characterize product design problems
• Prepare technical reports, data summaries and other technical documents
• Plan and set up the new equipment, tools at CS Campus, etc.
• Manage the lab (materials, machines, facilities) and set up SOP (Safety Operating Process Manuals)
• Hold a product design seminar for customers and training the junior, sales, CS staff
• Communicate and collaborate with HQ (suggest or given task), make up the technical road map

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: What We’re Looking For

Competencies/Desired Skills:

Education:  Bachelor’s or master’s degrees in mechanical engineering relevant fields such as Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace / Automotive / Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Precision Engineering and Design, etc. highly preferred

Requirements:

• 5 years of experience of product design, computer aided engineering (FEA/CAE analysis), advanced material testing, numerical analysis or relavant fields at OEM or Tier 1 of automotive, highly preferred.
• Experience in ABAQUS or relavant Finite Element Analysis (FEA) program like NASTRAN, PAM Crash, LS-Dyna, ANSYS, PATRAN, etc higly preferred.
• Experice in Hyperworks (Hypermesh), 2D & 3D Modling tools like CATIA or ProE, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, Design X, Solidworks, etc
• Knolwedge of various thermoplastic materials and evalution tools (UTM, Fatigue, Creep, High strain rate, Vibration welding, etc), fractography and DOE (Design of Experiments)
• Collaboration experience with product designer and manufacturing engineer group at OEM/ODM
• Powerpoint, Excel, Words Skills (Presentation Skill)
• Strong communication and coordination skills

Preferred Qualification/What We’d Like to See:

• Confident and reliable interaction with all hierarchies, customers and suppliers
• Be proactive, dedicated commitment and high ability to communicate
• Positive impact on team by the providing of coaching and mentoring colleagues, sharing accumulated expertise
• Proven ability to work independently under high pressure and comfortable working in a dynamic environment, curious spirit and willingness to work in fast-paced team
• Self-starter with excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strategic management competency: pro-actively identifying problems, targets, relevant issues. Ability to evaluate data, strategical planning and forecasting as well as developing processes
• Knowledge of procedures and methodology is essential, ability to analyze and make the choice of applied procedures, risk and profit forecast
• Understanding the impact of specific data patterns and trends on the business. The ability to define specific needs, generate solutions and lead all technical aspects of the project
• Ability to assume the leading role by the implementation of the new projects. Developing new solutions with existing technology
• Strong documentation skills and a high level of attention to details
• Ability to work in teams, high degree of social and cross-cultural competency
• High learning and flexibility
• Ability to encourage collaboration, a cooperative mindset
• Agile mindset with a positive attitude to change and meaningful growth
• Willingness to travel